August 2011
4 posts
The Thing Of The Thing...
What is it about High Fantasy? Where does it say in the rules that all books have to be called ‘the something of the something’? Tolkien did that, so now let’s move on.
Sadly Jordan’s not moving on extends to the rest of his work: I guess in a way, he writes the novel that LotR could have been, had Tolkien’s primary interest been in writing novels. There is a lack of...
What I Read On My Summer Holidays, Part The Last
This book is very much a sequel: in fact it continues more or less seamlessly from the conclusion of A Game Of Thrones, and ends in mid flow (as did its predecessor) at a natural pause in its several narrative threads. There is usually something episodic about sequences of books, but A Song Of Ice And Fire, with its episodic structure in detail, seems more like a single continuous work. So this...
