On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 11:54 AM, Casey Rousseau wrote: > Iain E. Davis wrote: >> I personally enjoy the fact that most of the books that he's written >> is >> "presented" (is that the right word?) in a different way. Whether it >> is >> telling the story through an unexpected set of eyes (Orca, Athyra, >> Agyar) >> or the non-linear storytelling (Dragon), it keeps the stories from >> simply being "old hat" as it were. :) > > To quote the author (re: Yendi on http://www.dreamcafe.com/books.html) > > "It was such a relief to get back to Vlad ... that I didn't pay enough > attention to what I was doing--I just wrote a straight-ahead story with > nothing much else to it. That's fine, in my opinion, if it's a Really > Good > Story. But Yendi is only an okay story." > > 'Course, I've always liked _Yendi_, especially the openning monologue, > so > straight-ahead narrative can work, and even for Steve, but yes, more > complex > presentations can offer many more opportunities for avoiding > old-hatness. Steve likes to bash Yendi but I enjoyed it. Its one of those sit back and enjoy books, with little brainpower required (like a good Horseclans book). ------ "...Wouldn't it be worse if life were fair, and everything bad that happens to us happens because we deserve it?" -Marcus Cole, Babylon 5.