Interesting. I read the Tapestry when I was in Israel, borrowed from a friend there who LOVED it, and... well, when I found out that [SPOILER] was [SPOILER], it really ruined it for me. Plus, it was painfully obvious that [SPOILER] was going to be used to [SPOILER]. And while I can certainly read books which take place in a pantheonic or pagan setting, there was something about the pantheon that just... didn't work for me. Kept on getting in the way. I don't know.
In a way I wish that GGK had written a draft of Fionvar, and then put it aside and done more writing... and come back to it. Because I really like some of his other books, like A Song For Arbonne. And Lions of Al-Rassan. Tigana.... well, the whole [SPOILER] thread bugs me, because I really fundamentally don't understand why [SPOILER] just didn't [SPOILER][SPOILER][SPOILER] and at least [SPOILER][SPOILER]. But I still like it better than the Tapestry, I think. I just read Ysabel, and liked that.
Although I don't know if it's fair to call what he does in Song or Lions world building, because of course he's doing a fair bit of filing the serial numbers off of actual events (I was especially aware of it in Lions)... but it's well written and I like it.
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Date: 2007-07-26 12:29 am (UTC)In a way I wish that GGK had written a draft of Fionvar, and then put it aside and done more writing... and come back to it. Because I really like some of his other books, like A Song For Arbonne. And Lions of Al-Rassan. Tigana.... well, the whole [SPOILER] thread bugs me, because I really fundamentally don't understand why [SPOILER] just didn't [SPOILER][SPOILER][SPOILER] and at least [SPOILER][SPOILER]. But I still like it better than the Tapestry, I think. I just read Ysabel, and liked that.
Although I don't know if it's fair to call what he does in Song or Lions world building, because of course he's doing a fair bit of filing the serial numbers off of actual events (I was especially aware of it in Lions)... but it's well written and I like it.