What does who think is most perfectly written, and why? For me: -C.J. Cherryh''s _Cyteen_ -Orson Scott Card''s _Ender''s Game_ -?''s play _The Lion in Winter_ I venture to label these ''perfect'' pieces of writing because in addition to having no technical flaws they all have vivid characters, high emotions, dramatic plots, and solid, interesting world-building.

Anything Fiest! The whole damn lot of them... Lots of depth and originality in story

LOTR... has some strange properties for the 3 books separation
Book I: All history, no feeling...
Book II: Bit of history, a little more feeling...
Book III: Relatively NO history, lots of feeling...

Anyone else notice that? I didn''t like Book I because it didn''t seem to have any emotion behind the writing, but I liked II and III. Anyone else feel the same?

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Final Fantasy 7!

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The Death Gate Cycle
it is a collection of 7 books written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. These are the best books that I have ever read. If you have read these books, let me know what you think of them. When you start on the first one, it is a little difficult to get into. But about half way through the first book, the action picks up, and by the end of the first book, you will HAVE to read the rest of the series as fast as you can get your hands on them.
And the ending will completely blow you away.......


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Katherine Kerr''s books as well I think... Great working on the Celtic mythology . Even includes Loch Ness monsters (to a lesser degree when you get to Cerr Cawnen - a place with some similarities to loch ness )

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Yes ncsu, the Death Gate cycle is excellent! I might like the same authors'' original Dragonlance novels (Chronicles and Legends trilogies? It''s been awhile) even better, though it''s a close call.

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Ironblayde, did you read all 7 ?
I loved the end of it when Haplo''s lord finally realized what was going on and sacrificd himself. Lord Xar was it ? I dont quite remember. But Alfred being all bumbling throughout the whole thing could have been left out.

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arg ! don''t post spoilers about the end of books

Some of my fav were MacCaffery''s ''political sci-fi''s'' - the doona trilogy, the power trilogy (perhaps even the master harper trilogy ?)

and then there''s kim stanley robinsons mars trilogy.
mmm. trilogies are good. you (usually) cant fit a whole, decent story in one book.

all of those have HEAPS of inter-character relations, and let you know all the history and current events you need. brilliant.

The death gate cycle was VERY good.perhaps 7 books was a tad too many tho

Wyzfen

Can''t fit a decent story in one book? MAGICIAN - (Raymond E. Fiest). That may have more books, but it is a DEFINING story... It rocks!

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Neither Feist''s MAGICIAN or Final Fantasy 7 are *that* good. In fact both bored me.

MAGICIAN is so trivial that it is litirally a Tolkien rip off. It is filled with boring travelling descriptions interspaced with a few good dialogue and some exciting drama. It has good parts, but it certainly also have bad parts. The Dragonlance Legends trilogy is much better.

My suggestion for a perfect work is Clive Barker''s Weaveworld. I am a big Clive Barker fan and has read almost all his work. That man is a true geneous. For those that do not know him he wropte the books behind the Hellraiser and Nightbreed movies.

Jacob Marner