Sunday, March 06, 2011
The part I don't love about fantasy doorstops
Both Lost Season 5 and the next installment of this stewardess novel series are somewhere out there in Media Mail limbo. Sean just mentioned that he's currently rereading Game of Thrones, and since I actually got my hands on a copy the other day, I figured this was as good a time as any to go ahead and start in on it. I'll take Sean's word that it will grow on me, and stick with it, but almost 50 pages in, I'm not too thrilled to be flipping back and forth between a frakking map and a frakkinger Appendix of dramatis personae (i.e., "Wait!--whose sister from which house is married to what lord from where?!?"). At least there's not a Glossary, which would be frakkingest of all.
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Why do you feel you need to flip between the map and the appendix and the story? I certainly didn't. Hell, I didn't even know the appendix EXISTED until I finished the book and turned the page. You don't need it, and you're setting yourself up for a lousy, less enjoyable reading experience if you treat it like you do.
Give it till page 80 or so.
By way of illustration, flipping back and forth to the appendix here is sort of like stopping The Godfather every few minutes to consult a DVD Extra Feature family tree on the five families. You don't need to do it there, you don't need to do it here.
Haha--if you say so. All right, I'll plunge ahead, perplexity be damned!
lol Sean does have a point, but I, too, have a hard time keeping track of characters and places in multi-volume doorstopper epics ;-) I hope you are enjoying the story, though! :-)
Darkeva
First time I experienced the book, it was through the *excellent* audio book, so I didn't have any of that supplemental material either. Like most fantasy, those relationships just become clear through story and repetition.
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