Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I think Kirstein's three books to date add up to less wordage than a single volume of Otherland. The June Locus has The Language of Power (Steerswoman #4) still on schedule for September.
I can't tell whether Nutty would love Ash or hate it with a passion.
Yes, TW does sprawl, but in the case of "Otherland," the sprawliness came at a good time for me. I really needed a book (or series of books) I could inhabit for several weeks.
I fear that I could be a very sprawly writer.
I can't tell whether Nutty would love Ash or hate it with a passion.
In either event, I think her response would be entertaining. *grin*
Besides, it's not nearly as over-romantic as Dunnett. Sneaky but ... Hmm.
I can't tell whether Nutty would love Ash or hate it with a passion.
Ruh roh.
(I gave up on Otherland when I started #3, and realized I had totally forgotten who was who and why I should care. I did like the premise of the first book, and parts of the second, but it was such a slog I had to stop.)
(This is also why I haven't cracked the Stephen King hardcover I was gifted last fall. That man has not heard the word "brevity" in a long, long time.)
brenda, I'm betting it's War of the Flowers?
Yup. I'm not very far along because it's my bus book (i.e., I read it only on the bus on the way to work) but it's very intriguing so far.
The whole Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy is huge, but I never found it anything less than readable. I don't mind wordy as long as I'm entertained.
I found some of the insanity parts in Memory, Sorrow and Thorn a bit repetitive. When I re-read, especially when I re-read To Green Angel Tower, I skip past a fair amount of Characters A, B and C in the midst of their depersonalization crises.
I understand how the crises are necessary to cause the transmission of information and objects that allow the plot to come to completion, but the POV rambling gets a bit tiresome, to me.
I love Nutty. That is all.
Yeah, fair enough. You can probably skip over 100 pages of Simon and Guthwulf wandering around under the castle.
Right. Especially cause Simon already did that in Book 1, and a little bit of it in a different setting in Book 2. Simon was particularly prone to that sort of behavior.