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Date Posted: 20:45:51 06/04/07 Mon
Author: klutz
Subject: Re: The Fionavar Tapestry
In reply to: EJetson 's message, "Re: The Fionavar Tapestry" on 18:03:41 06/04/07 Mon

I've never read any of the Dune books and I refuse to watch any film with the slow motion flying fight scenes that Crouching Tiger started, so that wouldn't appeal to me at all.

Well, you don't have to read in slo-mo. It's not about one director's film vision/fashion, it's about Japanese culture and the author handles it well: the story moves very quickly, but it's very reserved emotionally in conversations -- you only get a glimpse into the people themselves when it's a narrative. Anyway, I liked it enough to seek out the next book.

No, I've never read Asimov. He's more on the sci-fi side of things rather than fantasy, right?

Yes, he has done some marvelous work through interpolation of current understanding of science (at his time) but you don't have to be science-oriented to enjoy his books. It's the Afterword you can skip. Believe me, I'm so not science-oriented and I liked the stories. The robot series is good but I refused to see "I, Robot" when it was made into a movie because there was no way the story could be captured on film.

If you like space opera, you'd like David Weber's Honor Harrington series.

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