The Snootiness of Gene Wolfe

Thomas Womack · 01 Mar 2004, 08:59 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2004.mbox

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From: Thomas Womack <twomack at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Subject: Re: The Snootiness of Gene Wolfe
Date: 01 Mar 2004 08:59:33 +0000 (GMT)
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>For what it's worth, I prefer Dunnett's earlier series, which is
>linked to the Niccolo books: The Chronicles of Lymond.  Beginning with
>The Game of Kings.  (Which is not to say that the Niccolo books aren't
>quite good themselves.)

I gave up on the Game of Kings after getting totally frustrated with
what felt like a plethora of asides in untranslated Norman French; I'm
planning to try again after finishing the Niccolo books.  Merchants in
Bruges are for me a much more appealing setting than feuding clans in
Scotland, though (if only from titles) I'm aware that Lymond is likely
to get out of Scotland at some point.

Tom

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