> > Try Guy Gavriel Kay (my personal writing Ghod)
>
>
> Ooh, Kay... Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan... and that
> newest pair, the ones about not-quite-Byzantium.  Lovely things
> (historico/fantasy, one of my favorite permutations of the genre).  I
adore
> him.

ahhhh, a fellow congregant  :))

The duology "The Sarantine Mosaic"... Sailing to Sarantium (a nod to Yeat's
Sailing to Byzantium) and Lord of Emperors
I felt it had a distinctly cooler tone and pacing than his earlier books
(signaled at the very beginning though), and the distance from the
characters was interesting. Thing is -- I'm not sure I liked it as much as,
say, Tigana even though, in some ways it may be his best yet.  What I'm
enjoying greatly is that he's still trying. He has ideas he wants to explore
and isn't settling into any particular world he's created and supplying
endless books in it. Authors who do (and Katherine Kurtz leaps immediately
to mind) become bored and it eventually shows in the writing. It's rote,
formulaic, been-there-done-that 600 times already but it sells so here comes
601. Don't get me wrong -- I still buy those, and I like them, but I don't
*love* them. I do love Kay. It's also nice to see the changes from his first
books to his latest. I loved the Tapestry books (they were the first I read
of his) but they were very much a freshman effort, and I'd say he's well
into graduate studies with the later books :)

I find myself reading a lot more, and more obscure stuff, just so I can
catch the references in his stories -- and you know that can't be bad 

> darkelf, great minds, Kestrel, great minds  :)

now I'm just settled in for the long wait to the next book -- though it
might be longer than usual since a collection of poetry came out this
year.(Beyond This Dark House)  I've read reviews which were quite favorable,
but it's only available on the Canadian Amazon site (Amazon.ca) so I haven't
fussed with it yet.


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