"Casey Rousseau" <casey at the-bat.net>, who has the BEST EMAIL ADDRESS EVER, wrote: >MJ replied: >> Actually, I was thinking of CFSB&G, and _Teckla_. I am so > >Ah. I like _Teckla_ too, but I get the feeling that lotsa folks get >squeamish about the politics. I humbly beg leave to point out that people getting upset over politics have no real business reading fantasy of the Vlad or Corwinian sort. >Those who don't are likely to be upset >that our hero is losing his gal. Yes. That was the main thrust of my own sadness over the book. Cawti is so _neat_. >Kick, smack, hug away. I like the >central role Noish-pa has in this and Pheonix. True. The absence of Noish-pa from the later Vlad books is making me antsy, especially because SKZB, bless 'em, is enough of a FIEND to make the cause of Vlad's true homecoming A FUNERAL. >> Ahem. Anyway, I'd been under the impression that _Yendi_ got >> more love than _Teckla_, at least on-list, > >You're right. I wasn't sure which source of love you were indicating >was withheld. Steve states that _Y_ is his "least favorite book." Oh, what does HE know. Writers can't really be trusted to pick the best bits of their own work. Like Conan Doyle not liking Sherlock Holmes. >> Thingol is UNF. > >UNF? Er. Gamer jargon. "UNF" = "so very very sexy." Daymar is UNFn't, but MOrrolan is UNF^6. >> Personally, I bet that Paarfi would be better at writing a >> dull book than SKZB would be. > >Well of course, but there are two problems with this. One, Paarfi would >cheat !!! Two of the three Hawklords we've seen for more than two paragraphs are CHEATERS. I wonder if this is a common characteristic. ¬ mj