RIP David Eddings

[jimmy olsen]

I loved his books when I was a kid.

http://scifi.about.com/b/2009/06/03/david-eddings-is-dead.htm

[grumbler]

I only read his first book (a direct ripoff of Lord of the Rings), but it sounds like he lived long and prospered.  RIP

[Neil]

[Ed Anger]

I read somewhere that he wrote his books out long hand and didn't use a typewriter or a computer.

I'd last 2 pages doing that. He must of had a grip of steel.

[Neil]

I only read his first book (a direct ripoff of Lord of the Rings), but it sounds like he lived long and prospered.  RIP

He was a good entry-level fantasy author.  LOTR, while great, is too dense for most junior-high kids.

[Syt]

I read somewhere that he wrote his books out long hand and didn't use a typewriter or a computer.

I'd last 2 pages doing that. He must of had a grip of steel.

Clearly you've never had to write 5 hour long law exams at college. Cafeeinated chocolate, plus strong coffee with loads of sugar helped speed up the hand.

[Ed Anger]

I read somewhere that he wrote his books out long hand and didn't use a typewriter or a computer.

I'd last 2 pages doing that. He must of had a grip of steel.

Clearly you've never had to write 5 hour long law exams at college. Cafeeinated chocolate, plus strong coffee with loads of sugar helped speed up the hand.

I wrote some long ass papers out in High School. I never want to to that shit again. My hands are instruments of godly might, not a scribe's hands.

[jimmy olsen]

I read somewhere that he wrote his books out long hand and didn't use a typewriter or a computer.

I'd last 2 pages doing that. He must of had a grip of steel.

You sir, are correct. Was that somewhere perhaps the article I linked to?

Eddings was famously old-fashioned, never using a typewriter or computer (he wrote out his scripts in long-hand) and was well-known for being self-effacing, once remarking, "I'm never going to be in danger of getting a Nobel Prize for literature.

[jimmy olsen]

I read somewhere that he wrote his books out long hand and didn't use a typewriter or a computer.

I'd last 2 pages doing that. He must of had a grip of steel.

Clearly you've never had to write 5 hour long law exams at college. Cafeeinated chocolate, plus strong coffee with loads of sugar helped speed up the hand.

They gave me a laptop for my Master's exam.

[Ed Anger]

You sir, are correct. Was that somewhere perhaps the article I linked to?

I don't read your articles.

[Razgovory]

I only read his first book (a direct ripoff of Lord of the Rings), but it sounds like he lived long and prospered.  RIP

He was a good entry-level fantasy author.  LOTR, while great, is too dense for most junior-high kids.

Agree.

[grumbler]

He was a good entry-level fantasy author.  LOTR, while great, is too dense for most junior-high kids.

Quite understandable.  I was too old for the Ender or Diskworld books when they came out as well, but the fact that I didn't care for them doesn't mean that they were not good.

OtOH, I read the Lord of the Rings in the summer between my fourth and fifth grade school years, so I may not be a typical reader, either. 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Yes.  I re-read his Elenium not too long ago, I loaded it onto my phone to read while bored.

His later stuff was sadly lame, but he was good for what he did.  Sad.

[Ed Anger]

Yes.  I re-read his Elenium not too long ago, I loaded it onto my phone to read while bored.

His later stuff was sadly lame, but he was good for what he did.  Sad.

I picked up the Belgariad books recently since the SFBC was nagging me to fulfill my requirements. It still wasn't bad.

It wasn't like reading the Elric books and wondering what the fuck I found so interesting about them all those years ago.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Heh.  The Belgariad adn the Elenium are decent fantasy.  He goes off the rails when he blatantly and unapologetically re-writes them over again, several times in the case of the Belgariad.  The later books, like the Elder Gods were terrible.