Worst fantasy books ever written ?

[RMS]

Originally Posted by sladethesniper

Anything by Jerry Pournelle or Larry Niven...even though it is Sci-Fi, I hate it and must tell everyone that I hate it.

I've never read Pournelle, but I'm extremely surprised to see Niven mentioned along with all of the really poor writers mentioned in this thread. (Though he is guilty a few times of not finding a good story to go with his wonderful scientific idea he wants to explore, but thats the exception.*) I won't argue with you, but I just was really caught off guard to see Niven anywhere around here.

* Some of my other favorite authors are guilty of putting out some real crap to go along with their great works. (Moorcock for example has great, classic stories and some that are just total dreck.)

[PK Games]

Shadowrun Novels.

I love Farscape but man those novels blew chunks.

Teen Jedi the children of Han and Leia novels.

[sladethesniper]

One Shadowrun novel was really good 2XS...it's where I got my name...and Into the Shadows was nice as well...it had Kid Stealth in it and anyone who makes jokes like that gets from me

-STS

[soltakss]

Originally Posted by badcat

The rest of the series I agree, I couldn't read them even when I was in my early twenties and read smut, well, sometimes...

Oh, I could

[sakashay]

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is a horrible book

[rust]

Worst ever, at least of those I have attempted to read:
Stephen R. Donaldson's "Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever".
Trying to read it was hard work, no fun involved ...

[NickMiddleton]

When I was bloody minded teenager, the combination of angst and excessively obscure words hit the spot for me and I absolutely adored the Covenant books. But I haven't re-read them in many years.

But I can forgive Donaldson an awful lot for teh short pieces: "Unworthy of the Angel" and "Reave the Just", both of which I think are brilliant.

In contrast, thanks to a recent thread at RPGNet (following one here) I started trying to re-read The Verdant Passage, first volume of Troy Denning's Prism Pentad novels in teh [i}Dark Sun[/i] setting - and god, I'd forgotten just how flat and turgid the prose was...

Cheers,

Nick