But OH the Shame!

[grammarwoman]

seperis, pundit vixen that she is, pointed out brown_betty's Oh My God, I Can See Your Id!, a discussion of books "where an author appears to be exposing her id, and doesn't know it."

Most of my favorite authors from my pre-adolescent through teen years are mentioned in the comments, from Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey to David Eddings and Robert Heinlein, with special mentions of Marion Zimmer Bradley and other fixtures.

I was already feeling embarrassed by some of those just by the way they have not aged well at all, or that I have. Now I don't even know if there will be anything left in our library to steer the Emperor towards the Good Stuff. "Um, well, there's Jim Butcher and Glen Cook and Kage Baker and...Crap. Lemme get back to you."

Comments

[darsynia.livejournal.com]

Yep, that helps. Not seeing how Eddings does that (unless it's in the form of humorous one upsmanship (one for her side), and even then, I do that more IRL than in the books I read, so...), and maybe that's why I was confused, as I know Eddings' work better than the rest of the authors mentioned.

[grammarwoman]

Eddings was not one of the stronger examples. I think the poster was objecting to the way that Eddings constantly recycles character types and plots.