Today was a productive day.

[kyrielle]

Much online discussion of a possible project. And I still went out and got the deck cleaned, which gives it a goodly time to dry and I can still seal it while on my three-day weekend. Assuming the weather report I checked this morning is accurate, there will be no rain until Friday, which is way more of a window than I strictly need for this, so I am happy.

Other than that, I have been doing the incredibly productive task of re-reading books. (I have new books I need to read, and I am ignoring them. This is not 'I must have fiction' but 'I want to read these books'....) Sadly, I spot more continuity errors in Lackey than I used to, but I still quite enjoy the stories on their own terms anyway.

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[retsuko.livejournal.com]

I didn't feel hugely compelled to read more Lackey than the Magic's Trilogy...but perhaps I am committing sacrilege in saying this? ^-^;;

[kyrielle]

I would have said so, once. Not so sure, now. The woman could sorely use an editor. If I may say so, however, while I quite like that trilogy - it's an awful place to start. :) The Arrows Trilogy was intended to be first-read in that world.

If you ever want to retry her, which is far from mandatory, I'd recommend some of her stories in other worlds, though. The Fire Rose, The Serpent's Shadow, The Gates of Sleep. (Each of those three stands on its own, however, they make more sense read in that order as they're the same world, just not the same characters. The last one does sorta blow a hole in a piece of cosmology in the first, though. It's the weakest of the three as well.)

Or Tiger Burning Bright, which she's co-author on and which I quite enjoyed when I last re-read it (which was now some while ago).

Avoid the Bardic Voices series at all costs, unless you really fall in love with her. It's trite, and predictable. Joust is an excellent world, but if continuity glitches bug you, don't read it. It has a couple really glaring ones. They don't kill the story, but they definitely make you wonder why the main character is realizing something he realized before and was told once in the meanwhile (acting, at that time, as if it was new info). She badly needs to be edited. :P

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

I did enjoy Tiger Burning Bright...even my sweetie liked that one! Ah well, I'm afraid she may get pushed down to the bottom of my reading list as school starts...but thanks for the recs!

[kyrielle]

Only read her if you want to. ;) There are authors I recommend much faster/more readily than Lackey. Most of her Valdemar stuff is literary candy. It's sort of predictable and sometimes a little too sweet (tho' sometimes with a bite), and it doesn't always hold up as well as you'd like. But I grab handfuls of cotton candy at fairs, too, so....

Lindskold or Kiriki-Hoffman or several others in my library are better, tho.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

Narr. Stupid parents. Stupid relatives. Stupid stupid.

For THIS I miss the discussions?

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