Oh, YAY! Another convert to Dunnett - I couldn't be happier for you, Laura. ;)
And yes, there are two volumes of the Dorothy Dunnett Companion by Elspeth Morrison (and DD wrote some of the best entries) and they are marvelous compendiums of knowledge. And don't worry, you only have the next five Lymond books and then the eight volumes of the House of Niccolo to get through. Plus the glorious King Hereafter (the story of the real Macbeth and his wife Groa) and even the Johnson Johnson mysteries. No chance of running out of reading matter!
Ummm...a bit of history. I first read The Game of Kings in 1961, at the age of fourteen and was totally and completely hooked. I still re-read it regularly - as well as the rest of the Lymond chronicles - and still find bits I've missed on the umpteen other re-reads. (Lady Dunnett acknowledged - in Edinburgh in 2000 - that a few interesting/mysterious/fascinating bits had NEVER been caught by readers and now she's gone so there's no one to ask. *sigh
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She was totally having me on! And I loved her for it.
What a great story :) I told her that I had the same name (though spelled differently) as one of her characters and she looked slightly alarmed. I wondered if she thought I was going to sue for defamation of character *g*. She was an amazing woman...
I count meeting Dorothy right up there at the top of my list of "encounters with great and/or famous people" - just ahead of my big huggie-bear moment with Sir Ian McKellen. ;)
And you mean Kathi, right? Definitely my favorite female character in the Niccolo books (since Gelis is just mostly annoying).
No, I actually meant a rather unpleasant lady from Game of Kings Catherine Hunter of Ballagan. I spell my first name differently and I'm not "of Ballagan", but the rest of it is right. I do rather hope I don't turn out like her though...
I've never had a huggie-bear moment with Sir Ian McKellen but I have seen him naked...on stage *g*.
Well, in the end, when the tears rolled down her "seamed face", I did feel just the teensiest bit sorry for Catherine Hunter. (Although she certainly seemed to like her dog more than poor Dandy.) And she had really good taste in diamonds. *snerk*
And nekkid Sir Ian, huh? Well, my goodness. I saw him in The Tempest at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (that's where I got the famous hug!) and in a Strindberg play on Broadway with Helen Mirren and David Straitharn, but he was clothed in both. Damn.
Except.... well, okay, now that I think about it, he did appear in the second act of Dance of Death wearing what my kids called an "old man undershirt" (aka "wifebeater") but I hardly had time to appreciate the skin factor because I was too busy pointing out to my friend Libby that we could actually SEE his LOTR Fellowship tattoo! This was in December 2001, and the tattoos had made the news but no word of where each actor had gotten his. However, from the fourth row, Sir Ian's was clearly visible on his shoulder and I snatched away Libby
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LOL. I saw him naked many, many years before LOTR or even before he was particularly famous. He was playing Edgar in King Lear and at one point was required to be naked. I don't think I've ever seen anybody dash across the stage faster as the poor man was having to do this in front of an audience of school girls because Lear was our A Level set text that year. It probably wasn't one of his favourite acting experiences!
And she had really good taste in diamonds.
Dogs and diamonds. She does have some good points *g*.
And yes, there are two volumes of the Dorothy Dunnett Companion by Elspeth Morrison (and DD wrote some of the best entries) and they are marvelous compendiums of knowledge. And don't worry, you only have the next five Lymond books and then the eight volumes of the House of Niccolo to get through. Plus the glorious King Hereafter (the story of the real Macbeth and his wife Groa) and even the Johnson Johnson mysteries. No chance of running out of reading matter!
Ummm...a bit of history. I first read The Game of Kings in 1961, at the age of fourteen and was totally and completely hooked. I still re-read it regularly - as well as the rest of the Lymond chronicles - and still find bits I've missed on the umpteen other re-reads. (Lady Dunnett acknowledged - in Edinburgh in 2000 - that a few interesting/mysterious/fascinating bits had NEVER been caught by readers and now she's gone so there's no one to ask. *sigh ( ... )
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What a great story :) I told her that I had the same name (though spelled differently) as one of her characters and she looked slightly alarmed. I wondered if she thought I was going to sue for defamation of character *g*. She was an amazing woman...
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I count meeting Dorothy right up there at the top of my list of "encounters with great and/or famous people" - just ahead of my big huggie-bear moment with Sir Ian McKellen. ;)
And you mean Kathi, right? Definitely my favorite female character in the Niccolo books (since Gelis is just mostly annoying).
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I've never had a huggie-bear moment with Sir Ian McKellen but I have seen him naked...on stage *g*.
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And nekkid Sir Ian, huh? Well, my goodness. I saw him in The Tempest at the West Yorkshire Playhouse (that's where I got the famous hug!) and in a Strindberg play on Broadway with Helen Mirren and David Straitharn, but he was clothed in both. Damn.
Except.... well, okay, now that I think about it, he did appear in the second act of Dance of Death wearing what my kids called an "old man undershirt" (aka "wifebeater") but I hardly had time to appreciate the skin factor because I was too busy pointing out to my friend Libby that we could actually SEE his LOTR Fellowship tattoo! This was in December 2001, and the tattoos had made the news but no word of where each actor had gotten his. However, from the fourth row, Sir Ian's was clearly visible on his shoulder and I snatched away Libby ( ... )
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And she had really good taste in diamonds.
Dogs and diamonds. She does have some good points *g*.
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