On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Johne Cook wrote: > >Not as often as I should. But rereading them can be quite painful for > >me. On the other hand, it can also be fun. I'm doing it now, and > >discovering that YENDI doesn't suck as much as I thought it did. The > >voice, at any rate, is just where it should be for the most part. > > Thank you. I've always thought this wasn't as bad as has been made out. Ditto (somehow from "dictus" - "said" hence "what he said"). Someone's definition of "novel" is "long prose work with something wrong with it", and probably each Text of the Vladiad has a different fault, but I've never had any particular complaint about _Yendi_ (except perhaps for a grumble about the Author waving the solution to the novel in front of us as the hero sticks out his foot). Certainly I prefer it to _Taltos_. By the way, why "YENDI"?