Of course, you have to make allowances for a bat-shit insane culture
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 01/12/2011 05:02:27 AM
The whole D'angeline thing culture and mythology does not stand up to close examination. It's like someone crossed lady-porn with fantasy and that DaVinci code BS back-story, and Carey ran with it. On the other hand, the inevitable comparison that springs to mind with a world set up to glorify the absurd sexual exploits of the heroine is Laurel K Hamilton, and not only can Carey write rings around her, but her masochist prostitute comes across as a more decent, more admirable and less slutty human being than Anita Blake
Cannoli
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"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
So, for anyone who has read Kushiel's Dart by Jaqcuelyne Carey
- 29/11/2011 08:37:55 AM
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Carey is a decent writer
- 29/11/2011 04:03:45 PM
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really? I thought she had great storytelling
- 29/11/2011 04:31:05 PM
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I actually felt like the trilogy gained a lot of depth as it went on - the third book was the best.
- 29/11/2011 05:34:28 PM
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I agree about the consistency. And possibly about the storytelling.
- 29/11/2011 06:25:52 PM
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Re: I agree about the consistency. And possibly about the storytelling.
- 29/11/2011 07:13:22 PM
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Re: One of the major differences between Phaedre and Imriel is extremely simple.
- 29/12/2011 01:48:10 AM
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That's true... but I don't really think it's the decisive factor for me.
- 29/12/2011 07:18:06 PM
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Of course, you have to make allowances for a bat-shit insane culture
- 01/12/2011 05:02:27 AM
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I don't think I can come up with 10 fantasy cultures/mythologies which stand up to close examination *NM*
- 01/12/2011 09:11:07 AM
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