POWER reading

[piranha]

apparently i can read an entire dorothy dunnett book (checkmate) in a day.

if i don't do anything else. anything at all. :)

Comments

[pameladean]

*snicker*

I did that too.

I also read the previous one in one night. Right before the day when I read CHECKMATE.

Oy.

P.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

*grin*. why am i not surprised?

[snippy]

Woo! What did you think? Can you think yet?

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i mostly think it's too bad she's not written another series. :) this is how i like to read history -- though i think overall i prefer the niccolo books over the lymond ones; the historical aspects reach further, and i think the characters (other than the hero) are more complex. i had a hard time getting into the lymond series; i fought my way through the first and second books not being able to figure out enough of the historical connections. that got much better with the third book.

[snippy]

I agree about the other series; the mysteries are light, shallow entertainment. Good, but not challenging the way the Lymond and Niccolo series are.

Interesting about your differing experience, mine was the opposite--I know more about the history of the time of Lymond than that of Niccolo. I'd never heard of Trebizond, for one thing. You can definitely tell she wrote Lymond first, because her writing improved, especially in the secondary characters as you point out. She also gets better at revealing the main character to us. I found Lymond a bit random, but she spends more time on Niccolo's thought processes.

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

The "Lymond" series rocks! The plots are delightfully baroque and implausible, but oh, the language!

I never really got into her Niccolo books... without the dizzying language to keep me captivated, I sort of lost interest somewhere in the second book.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

hm. to me the language is no worse in the niccolo books. and i think i like them somewhat better; the other characters seem more realised.