• Pistcow@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    “Stephen King made me want to become a writer. Dean Koontz made me realize I could become a writter”.

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        10 months ago

        I used to enjoy his books and you made me look him up for the first time since the terrible Law of Nines book.

        He’s dead! That was a surprise! Otherwise most of the Sword of Truth series was “watch Richard take on communism…Again”.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah, he died a few years ago.

          I enjoyed the first couple books. The next few were okay, although all the misogyny and rape and torture fetishizing was bothering me. The Temple of the Winds was unintelligible nonsense. I had to stop in disgust and never touch another one of his books again. That is one of maybe 3-4 books I stopped and never finished in the last 20 years. Man it was awful. Plus, most of his ideas were just plagiarized from Robert Jordan. He did have a couple of unique ideas that were cool though.

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      10 months ago

      To me, Terry Pratchett made me realize I could become a writer. Now I just need to convince myself to stop being lazy and start actually writing. :-D