That one book club...

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

Ok, I seem to keep bringing this up but... the month of April is over! That means that the book club we found a few weeks ago has started posting their thoughts on our favorite series.

http://smartremarksbookclub.blogspot.com/

It looks like only the first review is very negative... and I'll admit it kind of hurt me to read it. (I'm sorry I told you to read it! But, really, the one insteresting thing happened in the third chapter--so, what, only hand-chopping is interesting? Too much traveling and political intrigue? Oh, my heart! It hurts!) The rest of the reviews so far seem to be more-or-less positive, and some express a great love for the books.

I do have one annoyance--their misspelling of the names. But I guess the've only read the books once, and at great speed, as opposed to however-many times we've read them... but, Eugene? Anatolia? Ungh.

Comments

[kitsune-rains.livejournal.com]

I felt the same way. And some of the people saying that not making it historically accurate was taking the lazy way out? Like MWT hadn't done her research?
I'm not sure but I got the feeling that MWT did her research well enough to go LIVE there as a native. Making it fictional isn't the 'lazy way out.'

QT is boring like Princess Bride is boring. Which is to say it's not.

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

Ok, good. I'm not the only one who TOTALLY thinks mwt could hold her own in the Court of Attolia. I mean, come on, she's wicked smart, loves intrige (role play chat, good god I didn't recover for a month), and... just plain rocks... just like Gen and the gang!!!!!

[ganzganzsmexi.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I completely agree. In fact, I think it's HARDER to pull off a story which only implies a certain time period, as opposed to straight up historical fiction. It requires just as much research and more literary panache.