This book changed my lifeThe Goat writes, "Some books have made a huge impact on my life." It's true. It wasn't until the b3ta mods read the Flashman novels that we changed from mild-mannered computer operators into heavily-whiskered copulators, poltroons and all round bastards in a well-known cavalry regiment.
What books have changed the way you think, the way you live, or just gave you a rollicking good time?
Friendly hint: A bit of background rather than just a bunch of book titles would make your stories more readable
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chthonic, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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Oddly, the Mordant's Need books have perfectly decent namesVaguely Arthurian and non-standard, but easy to say and not forced-sounding - Geraden, Artagel, Elega, Havelock, Nyle. The Mordant's Need duology (is that a word?) is definitely his most accessible work, and a good, rollocking read.
My main problem with Donaldson isn't the names, or his use of language (he's a terrible writer in many ways, with a bad tendency to use French words as if they're English - 'a flash of argent', 'he mistrusted her viands'), but his slight obsession with rape. All his books seem to feature abused women. None of them are just passive victims, they all go through to the other side (with the possible exception of Lena in the first TC series), but even so it does seem to be turning into a bit of a pattern.
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flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Mon 19 May 2008, 17:35,
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