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Guy Gavriel Kay

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  • 16-06-2007 2:15pm
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    Marksie
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    This author started as far as i knoe by helping christopher tolkien with the silmarillion.
    Indeed his first trilogy, the fionnavar tapestry was tolkiensque.

    However, He broke that mould with tigana, which i admit is one of the best books i have ever read.

    wnyone else read this author and have any comments?


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    bonkey
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    I enjoy Kay's stuff, but feel that he fails to strile the right balance somehow.

    To explain...very often when reading Kay's stuff, I feel that its a story set in Europe, with European cultures, with the names just very slightly mis-spelled - particularly with The Lions of Al-Rassan, and The Last Light of the Sun.

    Tolkien - who's writing I'm not the world's greatest fan of - borrowed heavily from European mythology but did genuinely try to create his own world. Kay, I often feel, would have been better off writing "historical fiction", or diverging further from it.

    That said...Tigana is, as you say, a triumph.


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    CiDeRmAn
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    I have a mate and she thinks this guy is the best fantasy writer going, I'm not a fan of the genre myself, prefer scifi, but this mate gets pretty stoked whenever a new book becomes available and gets them online.


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    Seeker
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    I read the Fionnavar Tapestry and it was good , but for some reason his writing style gave me a headache.


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