anyone read Dunnet?
The Urth list — 5 messages, 4 voices, 19 Mar 2009
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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

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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 <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
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________

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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 <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
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________

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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 <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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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 <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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