i saw your comment on Janise's neil gaiman post... and noticed that you're bearing the name of another fantasy book by charles de lint. I'm about half way through that book, can't say it's my favorite book ever, but was wondering if you had some recommendations of any other authors in the same genre - fantasy but no more elves and dragons please - as i like to call it?
Neil Gaiman is my faavorite author ever... but i've already read and re-read his stuff... dabblign in charles de lint... bored myself through terry goodkind... am in love with george rr martin (despite the dragons) but am running out of things to read *lol*
I'm slogging my way through Terry Goodkind now, myself. I've vowed not to read George RR Martin until he's done.
Guy Gavriel Kay: He's had some decent bits. Song for Arbonne is a decent place to start with him. If you're tired of the usual fantasy stuff, I'd avoid his Fionavar Tapestry, although it gets better by the end of the trilogy.
Jacqueline Carey, if you can handle reading about BDSM occasionally. Kushiel's Dart is the first of her books on that thread, and it's well worth the read.
Juliet Marillier's Sevenwaters Trilogy was good. The first book is a retelling of the seven swans myth with several twists, the following books have more their own stories.
Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown, and one of my favoritest of hers (although it has some triggery bits, I found it healing overall): Deerskin.
The Onion Girl isn't my favorite of DeLint's: I honestly feel like his earlier short stories were stronger than the majority of his novels, and that book was certainly one of the hardest to read.
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Re: onion girl?generalistFebruary 8 2008, 16:48:19 UTC
Hi,
RE Guy Gavriel Kay... have you tried "Lions of Al-Rassam"? That's my favorite for a number of reasons. Fionavar got a bit old, and much of it felt rather juvenile.
The others, aside from Nail Gaiman, I haven't read. I just recently read a Gaiman short story, "Troll Bridge", found in "Smoke and Mirrors." I often prefer short fiction to long, and I deem this to be one of the cleanest and best short stories I have ever read. It joins "Johnny Mnemonic" [Gibson] (the story, NOT the movie), "Neutron Star" [Niven], and maybe also "The Hero as Werwolf" [Gene Wolfe] in my short fiction favorites list.
Different topic:
Would you be interested in lj-friending me? We have a number of lj-friends in common, possibly some real-life ones as well. We have probably met in person, though I am not certain about that.
I saw you write yet another comment on a friend's lj entry (this time, angelbob) and wondered what you write in yours. Sometimes I write things that may be of interest to you in mine, and of course this would be a mutual
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Re: onion girl?tshumaFebruary 9 2008, 01:02:13 UTC
Lions is my other favorite of his. I was always sad that he didn't write any more about that story. The Last Light of the Sun, released fairly recently, didn't strike me as nearly as strong.
Sure, and I'm pretty certain we have met, probably via sunyata__.
Hi, pleased to meetcha. What I said about it above is true...it's not his strongest book, but perhaps one of his darkest, outside of his actual nom de plume horror.
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Neil Gaiman is my faavorite author ever... but i've already read and re-read his stuff... dabblign in charles de lint... bored myself through terry goodkind... am in love with george rr martin (despite the dragons) but am running out of things to read *lol*
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Guy Gavriel Kay: He's had some decent bits. Song for Arbonne is a decent place to start with him. If you're tired of the usual fantasy stuff, I'd avoid his Fionavar Tapestry, although it gets better by the end of the trilogy.
Jacqueline Carey, if you can handle reading about BDSM occasionally. Kushiel's Dart is the first of her books on that thread, and it's well worth the read.
Juliet Marillier's Sevenwaters Trilogy was good. The first book is a retelling of the seven swans myth with several twists, the following books have more their own stories.
Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown, and one of my favoritest of hers (although it has some triggery bits, I found it healing overall): Deerskin.
The Onion Girl isn't my favorite of DeLint's: I honestly feel like his earlier short stories were stronger than the majority of his novels, and that book was certainly one of the hardest to read. ( ... )
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Hi,
RE Guy Gavriel Kay... have you tried "Lions of Al-Rassam"? That's my favorite for a number of reasons. Fionavar got a bit old, and much of it felt rather juvenile.
The others, aside from Nail Gaiman, I haven't read. I just recently read a Gaiman short story, "Troll Bridge", found in "Smoke and Mirrors." I often prefer short fiction to long, and I deem this to be one of the cleanest and best short stories I have ever read. It joins "Johnny Mnemonic" [Gibson] (the story, NOT the movie), "Neutron Star" [Niven], and maybe also "The Hero as Werwolf" [Gene Wolfe] in my short fiction favorites list.
Different topic:
Would you be interested in lj-friending me? We have a number of lj-friends in common, possibly some real-life ones as well. We have probably met in person, though I am not certain about that.
I saw you write yet another comment on a friend's lj entry (this time, angelbob) and wondered what you write in yours. Sometimes I write things that may be of interest to you in mine, and of course this would be a mutual ( ... )
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Sure, and I'm pretty certain we have met, probably via sunyata__.
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What would you say his strongest was?
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