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Guruthostirn
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Posted: Wed 27 Apr , 2005 6:27 pm
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I want to know what people thought of this series. Personally it's one of my favorite trilogies, up there with LotR, but that's just me. I've never really heard what other people say...except I've noted the books have been in print constantly for a Long time...which says something in itself.

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Posted: Thu 28 Apr , 2005 5:45 am
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Great trilogy. :D I have the Collector's Edition with all three books wrapped in one. I particularly love the idea of the attachment to land (land law?). It's been a while so I might not remember all the names and the details, but I remember finding it quite beautiful.

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These were my favorite books as a kid, and I still reread them occasionally. I always loved the idea of the Great Shout - that would come in handy sometimes!

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I really like this trilogy, as well -- so much so that I can't yet bear to read the author's other work. It give such a distinct sense of place(s), it has superb riddles, and a great bard (giving a sense of what Alexander's Fflewddur Fflam was trying to live up to ;) and eerily wonderful scenes of transformation. I've forgiven it the punning names which would shipwreck any other fantasy series that wasn't a commedy.

One of my favorite parts is the amnesia scene -- very unexpected, not at all conventional, adds to the story rather than stalling or derailing it. The revelation in the last book always makes me catch my breath, as well, even though I now know to expect it.

-Kushana

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Guruthostirn
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Kushana, did you ever try reading her "The Tower at Stony Wood"?

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