That's why I really like the anthologies in which many different writers use the mythos as a starting point. Lovecraft can be hit or miss, and I think it's because of his need to use antiquated sentence structure. But I think its great so many others are reading and I'm getting tons of ideas!

Yes! Very antiquated. Given the period he lived in, 1890's to 1930's, I do suppose it was something of a norm - but it is incredibly boring, while it may have added depth or suspense back then, it's not the case now.
Sadly, he deserved much more recognition in his lifetime as he opened up a whole new world, in my opinion.
Another writer whose writing I detest, but absolutely love their ideas, is Dean Koontz. His books are written in such a disjointed sentence structure, kind of like my posts/emails/rants and so on. =P

Ugh. Yeah, Koontz is almost like Kilgore Trout in Kurt Vonnegut's novels. He has good ideas but his writing is so bad no one ever reads him. Of course in the real world people positively EAT UP Dean Koontz...or at least they used to. Oh well. I'm just gonna finish this anthology and then move on to a collection of stories by M.R. James. Look him up: excellent writer!

I do agree on Dune, brilliant book, and I read "Nine Princes in Amber", by Zelazny, that was great.

I recently got a humongous box of sci-fi books due to lack of storage space, and being a sci-fi fan, but not in a book sense, i was really excited about digging in... and being an idiot i immediately picked the HUGE trilogy of night's dawn by Peter F. Hamilton. Has any of you guys read through the whole thing?!
Actually so far the first book has been quite a good read, i guess it was just stupid picking a huge slab of text during the final months of school.
Anyone read through the entire wheel of time series?

All but the latest book, as I'm waiting for the Orbit edition to be released in paperback (and after that one, there's two left to go). I could just get the one from Tor (US publisher), but I have the rest of the series from Orbit (UK publisher).

Is it worth it?
I read through three books, and the first two were great, but the third one kind of lost me and i started to wonder how Robert Jordan could make ten more books worth the read...
But as i said, i liked the first two, some fantastic moments in the second one.

It really starts to drag on in the middle, 1000's of pages where nothing actually happens. The series would have been much better had he got someone brutally honest to read through his work and throw out the uneeded stuff. The series would be half the lenght but good all the way through. As it is it starts off brilliant, drags on for 2-3 books in the middle and only just starts to pick up in the last couple books.

Ah come on, Fires of Heaven (5th book) was awesome! Yeah, it started to go downhill from there. Especially books 8 and 10 and a large portions of 9 (except for the stupendous finale) were pretty bad.

To be honest I don't remember what happens in what book anymore just the overall story as a whole. I do remember entire books were practically nothing intresting happened and these are not small books.

I started reading the series when the first book was published. I read up to the end of book 5, then stopped, as when I found out how big the series was looking to get and I was forgetting what was going on,I had to reread the first ones to get back into the story - and that's just too much material to reread every time a new one came out. I figured I'd just wait until the series was finished. Heh. The joke was on me on that one. 20 years later and still waiting.
Anyway, I found the first two were excellent, the next three not bad. But I've heard from others that there are indeed a couple that are just boring as hell and that he seems to get off track for long stretches. At this point I don't know if I'll ever read the whole series, but since I've still been picking up the books in hard cover (remaindered), I likely will at some point after Sanderson finishes it.

Neverending fantasy sagas are plague of fantastic literature.

thanks for the opinions, i think i'll just keep my wonderful memories of the first two books, and leave it at that, unless i get stranded on an island... oh wait, that's already the case X(

Hi,
Have just began The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana.
I wish I could play a Chronicles of Amber game.
:(

I've been reading since I was a (really!) little kid. I've literally (And I know that word is over-used. I seriously mean "literally"!) read about 3 bookshelves (as in ceiling to floor kind) worth of books. My favorite genres are sci-fi and good fantasy.
1984 was amazing! As was Animal Farm. I love Robert Heinlen, J.R.R. Tolkein and C.S. Lewis. Also alot of classics. "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair was great, although pretty depressing!