anyone read Dunnet?

Son of Witz19 Mar 2009, 23:42

I was just talking lit with a coworker, and she recommended Dorothy Dunnet's Lymond Chronicles to me. Historical fiction with lots of literary and historical fiction and a lot of obscure vocabulary and a lot of depth is how it was described to me. anybody here read her? would you second the recommendation? ~witz

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes19 Mar 2009, 23:43

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I read the first book and a half. I enjoyed the first one, got bogged down somewhere in the second and never went back.

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On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote: I was just talking lit with a coworker, and she recommended Dorothy Dunnet's Lymond Chronicles to me. “Historical fiction with lots of literary and historical fiction and a lot of obscure vocabulary and a lot of depth is how it was described to me. anybody here read her” would you second the recommendation? ~witz _______________________________________________

William Royce Briggs19 Mar 2009, 23:51

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I read and enjoyed the first three. I've attempted to read the fourth novel twice, and I fail miserably each time. It's not that it's bad, I just always seem to have another book come around that grabs my interest more, and I abandon it.

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On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>wrote: I was just talking lit with a coworker, and she recommended Dorothy Dunnet's Lymond Chronicles to me. Historical fiction with lots of literary and historical fiction and a lot of obscure vocabulary and a lot of depth is how it was described to me. anybody here read her? would you second the recommendation? ~witz _______________________________________________

Jerry Friedman20 Mar 2009, 02:47

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I enjoyed them, though I didn't bother following all the intrigue or all of Lymond's cryptic statements, and I could see how one could get a little tired of him. The detail is astonishing. Jerry Friedman

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--- On Thu, 3/19/09, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote: From: Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> Subject: (urth) anyone read Dunnet? To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 5:42 PM I was just talking lit with a coworker, and she recommended Dorothy Dunnet's Lymond Chronicles to me. Historical fiction with lots of literary and historical fiction and a lot of obscure vocabulary and a lot of depth is how it was described to me. anybody here read her? would you second the recommendation? ~witz _______________________________________________

Son of Witz20 Mar 2009, 05:46

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thanks all. sounds worth checking into. ~witz

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On Mar 19, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote: I enjoyed them, though I didn't bother following all the intrigue or all of Lymond's cryptic statements, and I could see how one could get a little tired of him. The detail is astonishing. Jerry Friedman --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:

From: Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> Subject: (urth) anyone read Dunnet? To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 5:42 PM I was just talking lit with a coworker, and she recommended Dorothy Dunnet's Lymond Chronicles to me. Historical fiction with lots of literary and historical fiction and a lot of obscure vocabulary and a lot of depth is how it was described to me. anybody here read her? would you second the recommendation? ~witz _______________________________________________

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