Matthew
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Brian Staveley:
What are your favourite fantasy books? (Apart from The Emperors Blades of course!)
Brian Staveley
Ursula Le Guin is hands-down my favorite writer of fantasy and SF. One of my favorite writers period, in fact. I've read the various Earthsea novels a whole batch of times, and keep finding something new in them to admire. Of course, they're slower than a lot of fantasy fare being produced now (including my own books), more involved with the interior psychology of the characters than in massive battles and the rest. That slowness, however, is something I've really come to love. She has a somewhat obscure book called Always Coming Home. In some ways it's tremendously boring. In others, it's just stunningly brilliant and gorgeous. The only book by Le Guin that I don't particularly care for is The Word For World is Forest. Just seems very uncharacteristically simplistic. Everything else: brilliant. I particularly love Lavinia...
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Glenn Curry
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Brian Staveley:
One of the reason I love your books is your very broad vocabulary. Every novel has had a word or two where I am amazed to see the word in writing and the use of it was absolutely perfect. I've seen you ask on twitter "Does this word fit, etc..." So I'm asking two things I guess; is your vocabulary that robust from your educational background, dictionary look up, and twitter inquiries? second question next...
Brian
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Brian Staveley:
This series has been a tremendous read. Instantly in my top ten list. The use of character perspective and political intrigue kept everything grounded and somewhat 'messy' (in a good way). Will be be seeing more of Valyn in the future? His development was the most tragic of the siblings for me, and I feel as though he deserves more ink. Was the prologue in Last Mortal Bond a tease?
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