On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:03:35PM -0500, Jag wrote: > Strange.. I really enjoyed both books, although I do consider 'To Reign > in Hell' to be one of the best books I've read, period. It's also the > book I recommend to people who want to read Brust, but not necessarily > jump into a series. Hurk. I liked TRiH a lot when I first read it, early college or earlier. I think I liked the take on Miltonic mythology; we'd been doing Paradise Lost in freshman humanities class, where I got to go "Pbbbt!" to "And what does anyone else think of God's Plan?" But at some point I decided Steve's first three books all have majorly annoying flaws. Jhereg's is the ubercompetence ex machina resolution; I think the last straw for me is Kiera's switch of spring-loaded daggers. Yendi would be a lot shorter if Vlad would let Morrolan finish a sentence, and TRiH has a related flaw of no one checking with each other. Which can be resolved with "Abdiel was inventing perfidy and no one knew how to deal", but still, it seemed like an idiot plot. Haven't re-read it in a while, though. I still like reading Jhereg and Yendi, but the flaw is there. Sun/Moon/Stars may be the least re-read book. Well, okay, I haven't read the long books like F&N often. But I know I liked them. > Other than that.. I'd say the ones I didn't really enjoy were Brokedown > Palace (although I am considering rereading it), Teckla, and Athyra was I _like_ fairy tales. And I think Athyra was one of the most well-done Vlad books. > Athyra - I just think Vlad is much more interesting in Adrilankha, or > off on adventures involving powerful wizards and gods. It's not just about Vlad, like BP isn't about the crossovers. Oh well. -xx- Damien X-)