07-10-2025, 02:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2025, 02:36 PM by Dr. Ivor Yeti.)
(07-10-2025, 01:43 PM)Greg Wrote: Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay
I try not to buy books anymore. But if the library doesn't carry him, I will always buy the latest Guy Gavriel Kay book. The stories might not be very intricate but the language is always evocative. And I find myself getting totally immersed and reading faster and faster, staying up later than is good to me to continue reading. All too soon, I am finished the book and counting the days until my next fix.
Like always, the books are thinly disguised tales of medieval Europe. This one covers a segment of the hundred years particularly involving the battle of Aginvcourt and Joan of Arc. I frequently find myself translating Guy's place names into the actual place names. For instance, most of the story is set in Orane, Frieres which is Paris, France. The story focuses on a tavern poet caught up in affairs of state and his adventures and near death experience when he gets involved with the powerful. I really enjoyed this and I'm awaiting the next installment.
100% agree on GGK.
Now reading: Infinity Gate by MR Carey.
He usually does horror (“The Girl with All of the Gifts”) and the Felix Castor series (as Mike Carey). Recently, the Rampart Trilogy (Book of Koli) which was post apocalyptic fiction. I think he is very good.
This one is Space Opera and pretty damn good, too. Multiverse stuff and another debate on what constitutes sentience.
Horrendous amounts of death. Good stuff so far. There is one more novel after this and then it is done.
In the Tudor Period, Fencing Masters were classified in the Vagrancy Laws along with Actors, Gypsys, Vagabonds, Sturdy Rogues, and the owners of performing bears.