You know, I never thought about this, but the five of them have virtually nothing that marks them as people from the eighties. Granted, their Earth lives are mentioned pretty rarely, but still.
I would have loved it if Jennifer had pulled out mace, sprayed Rakoth Maugrim in the face, kneed him in the groin and got away.
"Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness."
The Fionavar Tapestry... wha-wh... what just happened?
- 04/05/2010 08:49:04 AM
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Surely you realized it was going to pack a punch when the whole tree thing started.
- 04/05/2010 10:26:17 AM
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The tree bit was in the first book, if memory serves...
- 04/05/2010 01:47:33 PM
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The tree seemed a bit stilted to me. Kay was still struggling with his writing there, I think.
- 04/05/2010 06:13:51 PM
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Melodrama is what happened. *spoilers*
- 04/05/2010 03:26:29 PM
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Which beautiful people?
- 04/05/2010 06:09:15 PM
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- 04/05/2010 06:09:15 PM
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It was really the whole Jennifer/Guinevere storyline that got heavy handed
- 04/05/2010 06:42:43 PM
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I've never read that trilogy
- 04/05/2010 04:29:35 PM
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You could get through them in an afternoon. They're quite small books.
- 04/05/2010 06:03:36 PM
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Weren't it great?
- 04/05/2010 04:45:12 PM
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I've never seen an author improve so visibly and rapidly.
- 04/05/2010 06:06:52 PM
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i loved that series. it was very impactful... glad you enjoyed it. *NM*
- 04/05/2010 05:15:32 PM
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I have never read a single GGK book, but
- 04/05/2010 05:18:53 PM
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I think you might enjoy some of his
- 04/05/2010 06:23:35 PM
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Yeah. I'd recommend people new to Kay start with his later works, which are good throughout. *NM*
- 04/05/2010 07:04:26 PM
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I couldn't get past the first part. I gave up on it withing 50 pages or so. Are you saying it gets
- 05/05/2010 12:05:42 AM
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It improves continually throughout the first book. Drastic improvement occurs in the second.
- 05/05/2010 03:14:56 AM
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it's been 15 years since I read this series...
- 05/05/2010 11:59:35 AM
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You missed the reference? Really? *mild spoilers for Ysabel & Fionavar*
- 05/05/2010 02:43:36 PM
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*NM*