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and some 4 books by somebody about a wizard and a lesser wizard and an otter and somebody else, fighting some great evil. I remember the lesser wizard's name was something like Faringay and the wizard was something Grey something. And that's all there was.. end quote An otter???? I need to read this!!! An otter???? How cool is that??? |
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Well, it has been about three decades since I read a collaboration between those two writers. What I seem to remember, at that time, was that I didn't find the humor particularly funny. However, my sense of humor - on this Board, anyway - goes toward the wild side, as I believe I've now reached an age whereby I can now discern sterile aridity of thought and staid, stodgy intellectualism -- and so many people who are wedded to the Intellectual Banking Theory of Knowledge are soooo boring. Give me "carpe diem" and "The Dead Poet's Society" any day. Throw Foucault to his mad dogs! Bring on the zombies! is my battle cry. Tear down those precious Ivory Towers! Now, back to "Reality": I really think I would enjoy the novels now, so I plan to go back and reread them. I think I very well might enjoy them. Don Last edited by Dr. Drib; 11-03-2009 at 09:29 AM. |
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Actually I think she talking about the Circle of Light series by Niel Hancock. It had talking animals. The first book was Greyfax Grimwald; the second was Faragon Fairingay. It was one of the first fantasies I read after reading Tolkien. Or I should say, tried to read. I couldn't make it past the first quarter of the book.
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Can't say that I have. I've SEEN an otter in the wild and got a huge kick out of watching it interact with the seals it was trying to adopt. Or perhaps more accurately, it appeared to want to be adopted by the seals.
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Piers Anthony isn't the only one who runs a series into the ground. I eventually gave up on Stasheff's Warlock books, Aprin's Myth series, and Dickson's Dragon books. The first book was delightful in all three cases, and then they started going downhill. Seems like the exploration of a new fantasy world and, in some cases, the hero's exploration of his magical talents, will carry one book, but after that there was a tendency for all three authors to get bogged down in political/business maneuvering, Life Lessons, and "how to win friends and influence people" type lecturing.
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Authors keep writing them because editors ask for them, and it pays the bills. Editors ask for them because they continue to sell. I get tired of a lot of these series rather quickly, but I suspect I'm atypical. I do wonder how many series like this weren't intended to be series, and suffer because the author never asked "If this book does well, the editor will want more. Am I comfortable writing a series in this setting? Do I have more to say beyond what I'm putting into the first book?" And some books take the author by surprise. Roger Zelazny, for example, never expected the Amber books to be his magnum opus, and the second series shows signs of Roger doing it because the editor wanted more Amber books rather than because he wanted to write them. ______ Dennis |
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P.S. All this reminds me, one sequel I really wish would appear is the lost Venture of Karres manuscript. I mean, Schmitz managed to finish Witches of Karres to very near the standard of the original novella, so there's hope that his imagination wouldn't have flagged for the sequel. (Before anybody mentions the Flint/Lackey travesty, I'm trying to expunge it from my memory.) Last edited by wayrad; 11-03-2009 at 06:49 PM. |
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Another like that for me is Mary Gentile's _Grunts_. It's something like Tolkien's universe, and everyone including them knows the forces of darkness will get greased, save that a dragon's hoard is unearthed by the bad guys and has things like AK-47s and Apache attack choppers. The balance of power is dramatically altered. You get lines like an Orc complaining to a superior that Orc marines don't leave their own dead behind on the battle field - it wastes food. It isn't a series, but the book it became is probably about twice as long as the idea merits, since it's essentially an extended joke. ______ Dennis Last edited by DMcCunney; 11-04-2009 at 08:27 AM. |
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