Hope you don't mind that I added you to my friends, BTW
Not at all. I added you to mine a while ago. ;-)
Regarding Dunnett? I've been warned. Alcibades tells me that DK-Ringed Castle is "very" similar to the Angel/Connor arc and if you liked Angel/Connor - you must read. While my friend pumpkinpuss who got me hooked on them - by dangling the Sunnydale U academic BTVS/ATS listserve in front of my face (you can only join if you've read Dunnett), informs me that Dunnett tortures her characters even more than Whedon does. LOL!
Actually I'm enjoying it - I just find the battle scenes slow-going and that's the section I'm on at the moment. Also unlike some writers - Dunnett requires the reader pay attention, which means it takes longer for me to read. (that and the fact I keep getting distracted by things...) The thing I love most about Dunnett - is while I may struggle a bit through the work, when I finish I feel satisfied and happy...like I want to hug the book. An experience you only really get from books that develop their characters and themes thoroughly, I think.
Am noticing a trend in her writing though - she seems to set up, like you state, a question about who the hero is, and instead of telling the story through her lead's pov, through the main characters surrounding him. There's at least three types of characters Lymond deals with: the young impressionable man who has a love/hate relationship with Lymond, befriends him then betrays him, then realizes his mistake too late and redeems himself by helping Lymond, just as Lymond redeems himself by helping the young man. (It's Will Scott in GoK, Richard Stewart? in Queen's Play, and Jerott Bylthe in Knights.) Then's there's the girl who Lymond feels responsible for or cares about: Christian Stewart in Gok, Oonaugh O'Dwyer in Queen's Play, not sure who in Knight's. The girl he betrayed or is trying to save or redeem himself for hurting: Eloise in Gok, Christian Stewart in Queen's Play (also little MAry in Queen's Play), and Oanaugh O'Dwyer in Knight's). The complex villain/hero that he's at loggerheads with. Interesting structure.
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Re: Reading Disorderly Knights
Date: 2004-01-10 10:36 am (UTC)Not at all. I added you to mine a while ago. ;-)
Regarding Dunnett? I've been warned. Alcibades tells me that DK-Ringed Castle is "very" similar to the Angel/Connor arc and if you liked Angel/Connor - you must read. While my friend pumpkinpuss who got me hooked on them - by dangling the Sunnydale U academic BTVS/ATS listserve in front of my face (you can only join if you've read Dunnett), informs me that Dunnett tortures her characters even more than Whedon does. LOL!
Actually I'm enjoying it - I just find the battle scenes slow-going and that's the section I'm on at the moment.
Also unlike some writers - Dunnett requires the reader pay attention, which means it takes longer for me to read.
(that and the fact I keep getting distracted by things...)
The thing I love most about Dunnett - is while I may struggle a bit through the work, when I finish I feel satisfied and happy...like I want to hug the book. An experience you only really get from books that develop their characters and themes thoroughly, I think.
Am noticing a trend in her writing though - she seems to set up, like you state, a question about who the hero is, and instead of telling the story through her lead's pov, through the main characters surrounding him. There's at least three types of characters Lymond deals with: the young impressionable man who has a love/hate relationship with Lymond, befriends him then betrays him, then realizes his mistake too late and redeems himself by helping Lymond, just as Lymond redeems himself by helping the young man. (It's Will Scott in GoK, Richard Stewart? in Queen's Play, and Jerott Bylthe in Knights.) Then's there's the girl who Lymond feels responsible for or cares about: Christian Stewart in Gok, Oonaugh O'Dwyer in Queen's Play, not sure who in Knight's. The girl he betrayed or is trying to save or redeem himself for hurting: Eloise in Gok, Christian Stewart in Queen's Play (also little MAry in Queen's Play), and Oanaugh O'Dwyer in
Knight's). The complex villain/hero that he's at loggerheads with. Interesting structure.