August - What fantasy book are you reading?
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Just goes to show how different people's tastes can be. The Summer Tree is about people from *this* world going to a fantasy world. Antoxx, you didn't like the Thomas Covenant series, which -- broadly described -- features the same concept. But TomTheBeliever, you did like the Thomas Covenant books, I seem to recall, and here say you didn't like the Fionavar Tapestry.
Guess there's a lot more to it than just the concept of "real" people going to a fantasy world, though. I basically liked both, and I didn't have a hard time finishing books from either, though I'm not so big into the Arthurian stuff, which figures heavily in later volumes of the Fionavar Tapestry. I like GGK's alternate version of Europe much better than the Fionavar books.
Guess there's a lot more to it than just the concept of "real" people going to a fantasy world, though. I basically liked both, and I didn't have a hard time finishing books from either, though I'm not so big into the Arthurian stuff, which figures heavily in later volumes of the Fionavar Tapestry. I like GGK's alternate version of Europe much better than the Fionavar books.
Hhmm, yes .. but the main difference being that the characters were really really strong in TC, and shockingly poor (in my opinion) in Fionavar. It definitely wasn't the concept of TC that primarily spurred me on - it was the characters and the world (VERY Tolkien-esque) which I loved. Nothing "grabbed me" in Summer Tree, so much so that I gave up after about 100 pages, something I rarely do.
