View original post... although the last time is many years ago. I must reread, absolutely right Rebekah. It was one of the very first genre books I ever read. Bought in a Dutch translation around 1991-1992, for almost nothing. You could find almost nothing from this genre in the Netherlands back then, and wasn't bought either (which is why I think I paid less than EUR 2 today's money for the hard cover edition). So when I saw this (for that price) I bought it, fell in love with it and was hooked to the genre ever since.
View original postThis book is my puberty infatuation.
View original postI was pleasantly surprised at the sympathy I got for Brandin (especially when I reread), which made it more believable that all is not black and white. It did make me wonder why we didn't get more positive view from the other side of the hate-triangle, namely Alberico. All I remember is that he's supposed to be a "Hitler with magic" (or more accurately: "Rommel with magic"?). No shades of grey there, just "get rid of him". It made the struggle slightly less interesting.
Yes, Brandin drawing the sympathy of readers seems to be a theme that pops up throughout the different reviews I've read. At the court scene he seems almost like a jovial kind of grandfatherly figure, that is until he makes the poet's head pop like a zit. 
View original postOne thing that you didn't mention, but that I thought was interesting, was the link between Tigana and the "Fionavar Tapestry", which he had written before. In Tigana, Brandin mentions the Tapestry as a legend he learned as a child, about many worlds, one of which was Fionavar. I think other books by Kay also mention the Tapestry, which ties them together somewhat.
Oh yes, I didn't think about that although in all fairness I've never read that series or any other Kay so I didn't know of it at the time.
View original postThe ending, especially the Dianora-<deleted spoiler> one, was emotionally heavy for me, but partly because I was quite young when I first read this.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
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A book I read several times
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