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Originally Posted by Krazykiwi
I love the Vlad Taltos books. They're very often quite hilarious, and cover a variety of styles which I find a lot of fun. It also means if you find you're losing interest, the next book might just reawaken it since it's likely to be written in a completely different way. Some are written like old noir detective stories, one begins with a literal laundry list from the protagonist, and proceeds to explain how each item of clothing got on it and needing exactly that repair or bloodstain removed, one plays out over a single meal, and one of the spinoff subseries is basically a Three Musketeers rewrite set in the Taltos world. I think Brust is wholly underrated, he's one of my all time favourite authors.
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I love the series too.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I found Brust's three musketeer's pastiche to be particularly annoying. Different strokes for different folks. To an extent, I got the impression that Brust was getting bored with things and started to experiment with literary devices rather than focus on telling a good story. I actually have the main line stories up through Hawk (# 14).
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It took me a couple of chapters to get the flow, but I actually like that he wrote it in the style he did. I have reread this series at least 4 times.
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