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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Yeah, I remember that being quite an uncomfortable transition, as well. The good news is that when you are done with the Fionavar Tapestry (while not bad IMO)... you still have GGK's best works to look forward to. Get Ysabel out of the way early, too, if you want to enjoy it at all. Because once you've read The Lions of Al Rassan and Tigana, all his other works simply pale by comparison. It's not that the other works are bad in any way, he's just never come close to matching the excellence of those two works in my eyes. Under Heaven is great, but still a distant third to his masterpieces.
(BTW, there are subtle and overt references to Fionavar in all his other works)
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That's interesting since I had to really look to find the
Fionavar books, and only did so after reading some of GGK's newer works. I did enjoy them a lot, but you could tell they were earlier works than his new stuff.