# anyone read Dunnet? *The Urth list — 5 messages, 4 voices, 19 Mar 2009* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Son of Witz *19 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-Oakes *19 Mar 2009, 23:43 · in reply to Son of Witz* I read the first book and a half. I enjoyed the first one, got bogged down somewhere in the second and never went back. > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Son of Witz 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 Briggs *19 Mar 2009, 23:51 · in reply to Son of Witz* 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. > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Son of Witz 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 Friedman *20 Mar 2009, 02:47 · in reply to Son of Witz* 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 wrote: > From: Son of Witz > Subject: (urth) anyone read Dunnet? > To: "The Urth Mailing List" > 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 Witz *20 Mar 2009, 05:46 · in reply to Jerry Friedman* thanks all. sounds worth checking into. ~witz > 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 wrote: >> From: Son of Witz >> Subject: (urth) anyone read Dunnet? >> To: "The Urth Mailing List" >> 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ ---