Confessions...

[shadowkat]

Okay I should be working on my novel, but am stuck. Again. Also the novel I'm reading is calling to me - part of me really just wants to sink into my couch with a nice big milkshake and read all day. This George RR Martin book I'm reading? Delicious book. Reading it is a bit like ordering a huge ice cream sundae for your brain. One just wants to fall into it. Haven't read a book I wanted to literally escape inside of since the Lymond Chronicles. Although Hyperion came close. Oh and having a book store beneath my work place is a dangerous thing. Yesterday at lunch, I bought another book that I'd begun to lust after. Wales thinks I should try the library, which is also nearby, as in across the street. But libraries take more time, also the books are dusty, I have a limited time to read them before I have to return them, and well I have to give them back when I'm finished with them. Also I love my books to death. I lug them about with me when I travel, so they get wet or rumpled at times.
As a child I remember actually sleeping with a stack of them. I think I thought that by sleeping with them, I could sink into them by osmosis or that they'd keep me safe somehow.

Comments

[wisewoman.livejournal.com]

I envy you. Those of us who have been enamored of the Martin series have been waiting years for the fourth book, and it's out next month I believe, so you will be able to read it right away--not fair!

I haven't read Hyperion yet, but I just got it from the library, so perhaps that will make up for it.

Next to Fionavar, the Martin series is the best fantasy ever written, IMNSHO.

;o)

[ponygirl2000.livejournal.com]

I'll have to get the Martin books then! I'm halfway through Dunnett's Disorderly Knights and it is truly a delicious series.

'Kat it's too darn hot to be creative I say!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I'll have to get the Martin books then! I'm halfway through Dunnett's Disorderly Knights and it is truly a delicious series.

The Martin books are easier to read than Dunnett.
Much less dense. Sort of like eating an ice cream sundae as opposed to a flourless chocolate cake.
Which is a good thing because they are also much longer. Game of Thrones - the shortest volume is about 896 pages (and it's a small paperback with small print). Clash of Kings - 936 pages. And Storm of Swords a little over a thousand. That's a lot of committment for one story.

On the other hand - it's a quick read. Moving pretty rapidly. Great characters and great writing. The writer - wrote the series Beauty and The Beast and a few of the Twilight Zone episodes.

The tale is dark and gritty, has aspects of supernatural and lots of sword play and court politics. Reminds me a bit of Dunnett, except the language isn't quite as dense, and there's magic.

'Kat it's too darn hot to be creative I say!

Very true. I ran errands today and almost melted.
Did work a few plot points out in my head while waiting in line to get movie tickets. But when I came home - I just didn't feel the urge to write them down, instead I ate a nectarine and read three chapters of the Martin book. It is a delicious book.
Nice and cool - like eating ice cream on a hot day.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

What's Finoavar? (Sort of stopped reading traditional Fantasy (ie. the Sword and Socerer variety) back in the 1980s, so I'm woefully behind the times. The last one I read was either by Terry Brooks or Pers Anthony. The only other fantasy novels I've read are gothic horror, horror, and sci-fantasy - which aren't quite the same thing. It's a broad genre - much broader than people think. I did try to write a sci-fantasy once upon a time - actually have tried repeatedly, but I quickly realized that I was too lazy to build the world and pay attention to all the teeny tiny details. Fantasy writing requires someone who is anal about details.)

Hope you like Hyperion - it took me a bit by surprise, hadn't expected to like it, and fell a bit in love with it. Still have to return it to the friend who loaned them to me.

[wisewoman.livejournal.com]

The Fionavar Tapestry is a fantasy trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay. I think it was his first published work, and he's gone on to write quite a few very well received books. Each of the three books is quite short, so the trilogy reads like one big fantasy novel.

Hope you get a chance to check it out--I'm pretty sure you'd like it. Every one I've recommended it to has loved it, so far.

;o)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I envy you. Those of us who have been enamored of the Martin series have been waiting years for the fourth book, and it's out next month I believe, so you will be able to read it right away--not fair!

Heh. I did the same thing with Farscape and the Dunnett series. Came to them after they were completed. The friend who recommended them told me that she envied me - I could see/read them without any breaks or worries about the next portion of the story arriving.

In some aspects it is better to see or read something after the writer/creator has finished it.
Yet - doing so, removes some of the anticipation - which is part of the fun.