On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:37:26PM -0500, David Rodemaker <dar at horusinc.com> wrote: > > > Has anyone else read _The Club Dumas_ (let's forget the movie > > please) and/or > > > _The Fencing Master_ by Arturo Perez-Reverte? > > Yes, both; they were well done. > What did you think of TFM? Why did you like it? The novel was quite > different in style and tone from TCD (and closer to the _The Seville > Communion_) and in some ways I enjoyed it more. The action seemed more > concentrated to me, but that may have been a bit of an illusion due to the > fencing aspects. The action was more concentrated, I agree. Also there was more OF it. > I also haven't read TCD in about 3 years. Nor I for some time; I don't recall exactly when. > > The movie was ALSO well done, only it bore very little > > relationship to the book. > Yes, I agree. But didn't want to get sucked into a debate on that. I thought > the movie was suprisingly good, and a excellent adaptation of a complex > novel to the screen. Well, it succeeded only by cutting large parts of the book out, and adding in its own explanations to some things. > I could picture Vlad walking into any of these books and making a wry, > throw-away comment and then wallking off. These strike me as very 'Brustian' > in tone. Eh. I didn't see this as much. Let me put it this way -- I am sure Brust could write a scene where Vlad walked into those worlds, make some comments, and walked out, and the scene would fit perfectly into the voice of the book -- but that's because he's very flexible in his authorial voice. ;) It would be much easier to place Khaavren into TFM, and/or Sethra into TCD. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt