Dear Epic Fantasy of the Very Late 1980s...

Mar 30, 2012 08:42

Look. This is hard for both of us. Let's not make it any harder than it needs to be. We had some fun, didn't we, back around 1998? You were fresh to me. I was fresh to the world of letters. I'd never seen anything like you, you with your thousands upon thousands of pages, you great thumping quadrilateral of a book. You citadel of wood pulp. You ( Read more... )

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underless March 30 2012, 13:56:37 UTC
I'm going to comment for the first time ever to say that while I love those books you are referencing, that particular part was one of the dumbest things a character has ever done in a book.

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marc_allan March 30 2012, 14:21:28 UTC
Can't tell you how many times I've tried to go back and read the stuff that got me interested in this amazing genre in the first place and was sorely disappointed....sigh.

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matociquala March 30 2012, 14:28:40 UTC
So I take it the venom hadn't entirely worked itself out of your system during those convulsions?

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Hmm maverick_weirdo March 30 2012, 14:37:37 UTC
I really liked the swamp-dweller allegory, and I sympathize with your abused suspension of disbelief; However describing the death of your suspension of disbelief by a method that leaves it suspended (hung) in death is a mixed metaphor that hurts my brain. ;)

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tactical_grace March 30 2012, 15:21:19 UTC
I guess I missed this series, or else I have blocked it out, because the specific reference isn't clicking with me...

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ravenclaw_eric March 30 2012, 16:19:19 UTC
I'll third this. I don't recognize the series, and I do read very widely in the genre.

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maltaran March 30 2012, 16:41:54 UTC
Sounds to me like Memory Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams.

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