Star Wars novels are an occasional guilty pleasure of mine also, though so far the only ones I have found bearable were the X-Wing series, especially those by Mike Stackpole. As far as fantasy literature goes, I always enjoyed Robert E. Howard’s Conan tales – he has a lively, literate, old-timey pulp style that’s irresistible, even if the stories aren’t exactly what you’d call “deep”.
There’s so much dreck on the fantasy shelves these days that it’s hard to sift through it all and find something good. For tales of adventure I prefer tried-and-true authors like Kipling, R.L. Stevenson, and Sir Richard Burton, who write about worlds that are so different from our modern day reality as to seem like fantasy.
[ January 31, 2002: Message edited by: Mister Underhill ]
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