[LMB] OT: First book, second language

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Kalina Varbanova wrote:

> On 7/17/06, Marna Nightingale <marna at marna.ca> wrote:
> > Guy Kay is not depressing,
>
> I don't know. I found the first book of the Summer Tree trilogy a bit
> of an effort to go past; and my colleage, to whom I lent the trilogy,
> still quotes it as reference of "slit my veins in the bathtub while
> reading" book (when describing something else he is reading).

I found Fionavar to be a) bad Arthurian pastiche and b) intensely
depressing.

Chacun a son gout.  Marna likes it, I don't.  At all.  It gave me
nightmares, and I don't enjoy things that give me nightmares
(some people do, you know!)

But I love Lions of Al-Rassan like whoa.

I think he does better when he's adapting actual history.

Arthurian stuff has been done, redone, overdone and done in to
the point where I won't touch it unless someone whose taste I
trust says, not that they like it, but that they think *I* would
like it.

~malfoy :)

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