I thought of a real answer!
David Gemmell: And I would ask him to finish his Troy Trilogy himself rather than his wife do it from the notes. Stella my dear you did a wonderful job, you really did but I wan't David to finish his own masterpiece.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:13, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

not to be cruel
but for the sake of fiction it's best that David Gemmell stay dead
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:14, Reply)

Plus it would scare the kids.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:15, Reply)

^this
but the main reason is he was shit
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:16, Reply)

You are great AICMFP

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:27, Reply)

Thanks!

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:35, Reply)

He was my favourite author, what didn't you like about his stuff?

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:16, Reply)

It was unbearably generic
and he had the pure audacity, with a total paucity of writing talent, to lay his dirty mitts on Troy
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:17, Reply)

He did follow a fairly strict formula. But it worked on me, his Wolf in Shadow series, and Ghost King,
the take on King Arthur were my favourites. I thought the Troy series were brilliant and a great reimagination. I just didn't like the end.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:19, Reply)

I just found him some unoriginal
there was no genuine innovation, nothing to raise him above the dross of what was basically sword and sorcery dressed up a bit.

Poor Bobby caught between a rock and a hard place on music and literature
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:22, Reply)

I have worked out my niche and am prospering rather nicely for it thanks,
I like swords and sorcery.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:27, Reply)

sword cock
sorc bugg
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:29, Reply)

cock swords
bugg sorc
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:32, Reply)

The ending was fucking great.
Patroclus coming back as a zombie, killing Hitler and getting married to Princess Diana was a stroke of genius.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:24, Reply)

you're forgetting the MASSIVE DRUGS SEX scene

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:26, Reply)

Oh yeah - when he was on tour with Led Zep in 71.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:27, Reply)

Bernard Cornwell's Warlord series
is good modern Arthurian fiction.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:32, Reply)

Bernard Cornwell I can take or leave
T.H. White though..
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:33, Reply)

Was he 'The Once and Future King'?
Magnificent.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:49, Reply)

Indeed he was
pure genius. Made me cry as a child
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 10:59, Reply)

Bless you.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 11:29, Reply)

And I was a unfeeling little fucker as a child
so that means something
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 11:32, Reply)

war gay
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 21 Sep 2010, 12:01, Reply)