[rune]

I tried to read The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula Le Guin, you can tell by the name its going to be hard work.

The style was so irksome that I have given up and put the series down :eek:
It surprises me that there are still authors being published who use such a clumsy style. Now the first book in this series was released some years ago, but I bought the newest in the series at the first time i bought the first and its still awful:confused:

OH why do I waste my money:(

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[cgw]

I have not been able to get into Le Guin either, mostly due to the style.

[rune]

What did you find about the series the most annoying?

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[chocky]

I can't agree with you about The Earthsea Quartet. I absolutly love those books. However, I really had a hard time getting into Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness. I've tried three or four times and still no sucess. Sometimes a person's style will work well in one book but completly fail in another IMHO.

[rune]

Hi Chocky.

I have found other authors easier to read. Terry Brooks, Robin Hobb, Goodkind, Salavador are but a few.

I like to be so involved in a book i can't put it down. Unfortunately though with the Earthsea Series I dreaded picking it up:(

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[Miriamele]

LeGuin definitely has a unique style in her Earthsea books. It's sparse and dramatic; it reminds me a bit of Greek mythology. Personally I really liked these books, but I can see how not everyone could get into them. The first time I picked up The Wizard of Earthsea I was kind of shocked at how unusual the writing style was. But, I stuck with it and eventually got into it.

One book I recently put down without finishing was Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey. I found that the writing style was too wordy and flowery, and the plot didn't contain enough action for my taste. It all seemed to be about political intrigue, and there were too many names to remember. I got to about half way through and just couldn't go on.

[Crysania]

I adored LeGuin. the style is so stark and wonderful. Haunting, in fact. Anyway, I suppose to each their own but I liken Le guin to a more classical style.

Ones I've put down very easily, very recently (in the last year) ... Goodkind, the second series in Feist's Riftwar, Modesitt, and believe it or not G. Kay.

[Gagged Man]

I picked up Edding's Redemption of Althalus and put it down after about 50 pages.

It's just soo similar to The Elenium and Tamuli that it feels like I'm being dragged over well-worn ground. Ugh.

[Eventine]

I dragged myself through Legend by David Gemmel and vowed never to touch it again.

[Belgarion]

Le Guin's Earthsea Quartet is a bit of a flop! :(

However, I must stressed that I really enjoyed the second of the 4 stories. That was worth the purchase price of the book :)

Le Guin's prose is very hard to grasp, very similar to Patricia McKillip.

I am having difficulties in reading Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Very hard to grasp, I hate the fact that he creates time gaps in his saga story.

For example he describes the travelling from A to B and then suddenly they arrived at D without explaining how they got from B to C and C to D!!

Give me Eddings, Feist and Brooks anyday!:p