Matthew Hunter <matthew at infodancer.org> writes: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:36:31AM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote: > > "Casey Rousseau" <casey at trinityhartford.org> writes: > > > As for Kurtz, yes, I was explicitly recommending the first two trilogies. > > That's about right. Either that or just the first 1. I'd be very > > doubtful about anything past that, anyway. > > That's odd. IMHO they get better, rather than worse. > Particularly the first trilogy -- it's very rough, obviously an > early and unpolished set of books. They're rough in some ways, but they also have that first-novel gleam on them. *That's* the story that finally drove her to telling it formally. > But then, I am a bit of an occultist myself, so I speak Kurtz's > language regarding the endless use of ritual magic by the Deryni. > That's such a large component of the later books that anyone not > on her wavelength would find it rough going. Yeah, I felt she got bogged down in the made-up minutia rather too much. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info