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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7034630" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>Just finished reading Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay. Dang fine piece of fiction. He often writes fantasy versions of real-world cultures, and this one is Tang Dynasty China. He did an excellent job of bringing that feel.</p><p></p><p>If I have a complaint, it is that the choice of where to end seems somewhat arbitrary. I had become so invested in what was happening in the world that a decision which was a perfect capstone for the protagonist's arc took me by surprise, because a different and equally acceptable choice would have continued the plot and I would have been able to visit longer.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and to try not to spoil anything, I can say that after a trip in the desert I was both cheering and crying. Damn. Very, very far away from how a lesser, more formulaic, author would have plotted. Bravo.</p><p></p><p>I think this has, with understated poetry, placed itself as y third favorite GGK, behind The Fionavar Tapestry (I love mythic) and Tigania (just, wow). 3rd best doesn't sound like high praise, but it is considering the excellent works it's needed to bypass like A Song for Arbonne and Ysabel.</p><p></p><p>I see that he also has River of Stars, taking place several centuries later in the same world. I'm torn between picking it up immediately, but that would mingle them in my mind, or letting this glow and read something quite different, and then picking it up later. Anyone read it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7034630, member: 20564"] Just finished reading Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay. Dang fine piece of fiction. He often writes fantasy versions of real-world cultures, and this one is Tang Dynasty China. He did an excellent job of bringing that feel. If I have a complaint, it is that the choice of where to end seems somewhat arbitrary. I had become so invested in what was happening in the world that a decision which was a perfect capstone for the protagonist's arc took me by surprise, because a different and equally acceptable choice would have continued the plot and I would have been able to visit longer. Oh, and to try not to spoil anything, I can say that after a trip in the desert I was both cheering and crying. Damn. Very, very far away from how a lesser, more formulaic, author would have plotted. Bravo. I think this has, with understated poetry, placed itself as y third favorite GGK, behind The Fionavar Tapestry (I love mythic) and Tigania (just, wow). 3rd best doesn't sound like high praise, but it is considering the excellent works it's needed to bypass like A Song for Arbonne and Ysabel. I see that he also has River of Stars, taking place several centuries later in the same world. I'm torn between picking it up immediately, but that would mingle them in my mind, or letting this glow and read something quite different, and then picking it up later. Anyone read it? [/QUOTE]
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