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Ok, I read some other of Sara Douglass' books and they were a decent read so I picked up the first book of her Troy Game series Hades Daughter. It took me 2 months to get 2/3 of the way through the book and I finally became so disinterested I put it back in my library.
I honestly can't think of a more boring fantasy book, and i've read hundreds. I am not trying to bad talk her too much because I read the Wayfarer Redemption series and I handled that, but Hades Daughter was horrible.
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Sara Douglass Troy Game Series is horrible!
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Posted 22 November 2006 - 09:47 PM
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Posted 25 November 2006 - 05:07 PM
Keep it that way!
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Posted 25 November 2006 - 06:08 PM
For some reason, anything modern set in a Illiad setting (as I assume this is) is allways shit. With the exception of Dan Simmons' Ilium, which was really cool.
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Posted 26 November 2006 - 06:57 PM
I picked up the first book used on a whim....don't know if I'll get to it or not.
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Posted 27 November 2006 - 02:55 AM
Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The Firebrand" was OK, even if it was from a female POV.
Colleen McCullough wrote a version not too long ago ... "The Song of Troy" I think. it was pretty good.
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Colleen McCullough wrote a version not too long ago ... "The Song of Troy" I think. it was pretty good.
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Posted 27 November 2006 - 03:05 AM
James Hetfield said:
Ok, I read some other of Sara Douglass' books and they were a decent read so I picked up the first book of her Troy Game series Hades Daughter. It took me 2 months to get 2/3 of the way through the book and I finally became so disinterested I put it back in my library.
I honestly can't think of a more boring fantasy book, and i've read hundreds. I am not trying to bad talk her too much because I read the Wayfarer Redemption series and I handled that, but Hades Daughter was horrible.
I honestly can't think of a more boring fantasy book, and i've read hundreds. I am not trying to bad talk her too much because I read the Wayfarer Redemption series and I handled that, but Hades Daughter was horrible.
You thought her other books were a decent read?! Anyone who writes stories with stereotypical muscle-bound heroes and maidens in distress have to be really good writers to pull it off. It was at the point in her first book on some other series where "Mr. Hero" picks up a sword and she uses the sentence: ""He felt strong and powerful." That’s when I decided she is a terrible writer. Honestly. Goodkind is the lowest hack I've ever known, and even he can write decent sentences with imaginative adjectives...sometimes.
This woman never could.
@Sombra: "even if it was from a female POV"?
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Posted 28 November 2006 - 04:15 AM
i've got the first one in paperback because some of my friends told be it was alright.
in hindsight, i should've told them to shove it. i plowed through it with great difficulty, but i did manage to finish it. and i read all 7 of the "crown of stars" - so thats saying something.
in hindsight, i should've told them to shove it. i plowed through it with great difficulty, but i did manage to finish it. and i read all 7 of the "crown of stars" - so thats saying something.
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Does being the only sane person in the world make you insane?
If a tree falls in the woods and a deaf person saw it, does it make a sound?
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Posted 28 November 2006 - 08:54 AM
The first series of hers with that Axe guy, or whatever it had to do with Axe, was freaking horrible.
I can only imaging what shes doing now she's a little famous.
I can only imaging what shes doing now she's a little famous.
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Posted 28 November 2006 - 09:35 AM
I'm with all of you, I plowed through the axe series ages ago. It inspired me never to touch anything else by her. Ever. Put it right at the top of the worst fantasy I've read along with Lynn Fleweling and her gay dudes and John Marco and his hack trench warfare.
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Posted 28 November 2006 - 08:08 PM
Maybe I won't get to my copy. :outta:
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Posted 29 November 2006 - 02:43 PM
I only know that you can get utter drivel published in America. See: Terry Goodkind. I have no excuses for the Aussies, though. 
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Posted 29 November 2006 - 04:59 PM
Douglass is pretty risible, but she's still light-years better than Goodkind. The Axis Trilogy has some interesting ideas in the book but it's all so tediously written. Needless to say I did not move onto The Wayfarer Redemption Trilogy or Troy Game.
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