You should read Pride and Prejudice! The writing might put you off at first, but it is very conversational for its era, and I personally love the way it is written.
Also, if I get to talk with you in excited Ais-speak when you are excited about Pride and Prejudice, I may expire with giddyness.
Also, that Goodkind quote - wow. Like an otherworldly collection of spectral shapes seemingly carried on random eddies of air Really? And what, exactly, is that like? I have very rarely seen otherworldly collections of spectral shapes. Actually, never seen either spectral shapes or an otherworldly collection. ALSO - aren't they actually a otherworldly collection of spectral shapes? So that would be like me saying "Like a man walking down the street, I walked down the street." ARGH. Damn, I think - I think a part of my brain just died.
There is just too much good fantasy out there to waste my time. I wish there was more in the sword and sorcery realm - that seem particularly susceptible to authors just cranking out books. But I just have to look at de Lint - a book every one or two years, with some of the same side characters and main characters as the other Newford books, but with a story completely different, distinct, and satisfying. Show me a sword and sorcery series that does that, and I'll - well, read it.
To be fair, I don't know for certain whether that was a quote straight from the book but..... yeah, it probably was. I found it on Amazon in the review section.
It does make it seem like TG's writing has gone downhill even more, which is SUPER UNFORTUNATE ARGH.
It's true that there's a lot of other stuff out there to look at instead... I don't know yet if I'll even bother reading the thing or whether I'll just read a synopsis of it later.
Who else is any good aside from de Lint?
Also, sword and sorcery-- wouldn't the Tamir Trilogy somewhat fall under that category?
Also, if I get to talk with you in excited Ais-speak when you are excited about Pride and Prejudice, I may expire with giddyness.
Also, that Goodkind quote - wow.
Like an otherworldly collection of spectral shapes seemingly carried on random eddies of air
Really? And what, exactly, is that like? I have very rarely seen otherworldly collections of spectral shapes. Actually, never seen either spectral shapes or an otherworldly collection. ALSO - aren't they actually a otherworldly collection of spectral shapes? So that would be like me saying "Like a man walking down the street, I walked down the street." ARGH. Damn, I think - I think a part of my brain just died.
There is just too much good fantasy out there to waste my time. I wish there was more in the sword and sorcery realm - that seem particularly susceptible to authors just cranking out books. But I just have to look at de Lint - a book every one or two years, with some of the same side characters and main characters as the other Newford books, but with a story completely different, distinct, and satisfying. Show me a sword and sorcery series that does that, and I'll - well, read it.
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It does make it seem like TG's writing has gone downhill even more, which is SUPER UNFORTUNATE ARGH.
It's true that there's a lot of other stuff out there to look at instead... I don't know yet if I'll even bother reading the thing or whether I'll just read a synopsis of it later.
Who else is any good aside from de Lint?
Also, sword and sorcery-- wouldn't the Tamir Trilogy somewhat fall under that category?
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