[Belgarion]

Just simple straightforward answers, no explanations needed.

Who would you rather read out of each combination? If you havent's read either or both authors, just select the one that you think would satisfy you most. To simplify...if you had enough money to buy only one book with the choice of 2 authors who would you select?

Each combination is strategically combined deliberately...to satisfy my paradoxical chaotic mind.

Tolkien is ignored as he is uncomparable.


1) GRRMartin or Rob Jordan.
2) Robin Hobbs or Sara Douglass
3) David Eddings or Terry Brooks
4) Melanie Rawn or Katherine Kerr
5) Stephen Donaldson or Roger Zelanzy
6) Steven Erikson or Mary Gentle
7) Salvatore or Jack Vance
8) Patricia McKip or Anne McCaffrey
9) Terry Goodkind or Oscar Scott Card
10) Philip Pullman or David Farland

My answers:

1) Martin
2) Douglass
3) EDDINGS!!!!
4) Rawn
5) Donaldson
6) Erikson
7) Tolkien
8) McKip
9) Card
10) Tough one.....Farland just about.

[Bardos]

1) GRRMartin
2) Sara Douglass
3) Terry Brooks
4) Katherine Kerr
5) Roger Zelanzy
6) Steven Erikson
7) Jack Vance
8) Patricia McKip
9) Oscar Scott Card
10) David Farland

[Lady Fox]

1. Jordan
2. Hobb
3. NEITHER
4. Rawn
5. Donaldson
6. Erikson
7. Salvatore
8. McCaffrey
9. Card
10.Pullman

[Cadfael]

1. Martin
2. Hobb
3. *Don't be stupid!!!
4. Kerr
5. Donaldson
6. Erickson
7. Ahhh ahhh... Salvatore
8. MaCaffery
9. Goodkind
10. Farland

* seriously... Brooks.

[Bardos]

<<3. *Don't be stupid!!!
* seriously... Brooks>>

Ha-ha! DennizM, my thoughts exactly. That's why I put Brook in 3, too. I thought: Both guys cannot come up with a worthy story, but at least Brooks writes better than Eddings! http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/wink.gif

[Lamanai]

1. Martin
2. Hobb
3. Eddings
4. Kerr
5. Zelazny
6. Erikson
7. Vance
8. McKip
9. Card
10. Farland

[Lamanai]

Thus quoth Bardos:

Ha-ha! DennizM, my thoughts exactly. That's why I put Brook in 3, too. I thought: Both guys cannot come up with a worthy story, but at least Brooks writes better than Eddings!


That's funny Bardos. I would have said exactly the opposite. You're right, neither of them can come up with an imaginitave plot line, but I found Brooks totally unreadable. I thought Eddings was a much better writer. *shrug* I guess you're entitled to your wrong opinion... Kidding. *smyle*

[Vitriol]

1)Martin
2)Hobbs
3)Eddings
4)Kerr
5)Donaldson
6)Gentle
7)Vance
8)McCaffrey
9)Card
10)Pullman

I haven't read Pullman or Farland, so 10 is based on what people have told me. The only one I had to think about seriously was 5, but Donaldson just had the edge (plus is books tend to be much longer than Zelanzy's)

[Rob B]

Belgarion:

Some of these are tough.

1) GRRMartin (not a very easy choice)
2) Robin Hobb (never read Douglass, and Hobb is a favorite)
3) Terry Brooks
4) Melanie Rawn (flipped a coin, never read either)
5) Stephen Donaldson (Probably the toughest choice, so far)
6) Mary Gentle (since Erikson is Not Easily available in the US)
7) Jack Vance
8) Patricia McKilip
9) Orson Scott Card
10) Philip Pullman (The toughest choice).

[Loaba]

1) GRRMartin - site evidence indicates I'd like him
2) Robin Hobbs or - again, you folks make me think I'd like her.
3) David Eddings
4) ?
5) Roger Zelanzy
6) Steven Erikson
7) Jack Vance - Slavatore is ickey
8) Anne McCaffrey
9) Oscar Scott Card
10) David Farland