Philip Hart wrote, in part: > [...] I've gotten stuck early in _F&N_ twice now, and I appreciate the > fact that I can read this list without inadvertently coming across the > Cliff's Notes versions of their plots. > Says me, and FWIW: F&N was one of the few (two?) books I've had the chance to read in the Scribblies-Tor interregnum and I didn't make it past page fifty --or so-- 'till I gave it a shot rather more recently. I'm having trouble thinking of any /other/ reason for comparing them, but I also had that trouble with _Lord of Light_, about which enough good cannot be said. Somewhere I discovered I had gone from searching for things of interest to unable to set it down.