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Originally posted by Melusine:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
It frustrates me how mediocre a genre fantasy is. There are incredibly few good fantasy writers. I mean, there are several who write enjoyable books that are a fun read, but little, and I mean little, rises to the level of "ART" (and if you want a really drawn out definition of that word, catch me sometime and we'll start w/ Plato and move through St. Thomas Aquinas and James Joyce in our discussion).
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LOL, well it's a bit paradoxical to comment on fantasy's mediocrity and then continuing on to say how good David Eddings is at characters, or how great Weis and Hickman are... In a minute you're going to tell me you think R.A. Salvatore rocks 
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Discussing art and starting at Plato doesn't sound quite right either... </font>[/QUOTE]Weis and Hickman were great
They had very well devolped characters. Ones that you could fall in love with. Each had there perks and flaws. Each one sereved a purpous in the grand scheme of things. As far as character devolopment goes, The chronicals and Legends serries are by far the best books I ever read.
But no one person can say what is art and what is not art. Its in the eye of the beholder.