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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dinsdale" data-source="post: 1204003" data-attributes="member: 1447">I have to add to the chorus of people saying that Tigana is a great book by a great author.  The characterization is outstanding and there are so many moving moments that just rip your heart out.  Unfortuantely, I actually haven't read the book in a few years (I stumbled upon this thread), so I am a little short on specifics.  However the one touching moment that comes to mind is when a man is beaten on the streets of Tigana by his opressors and cries out the name of his land in defiance, but only those who were native born and old enough could even hear him.  Tigana and Song for Arbonne rank up among my favorite books of all time.  I also really enjoyed the Fionovar Tapestry, though that series had a bit of a different flavor than the others (it is more like traditional fantasy lit than Kay's other books).  I found his other works to be extremely good, but not quite to the same level as these.The one hit on Kay's writing I could make, is that the prose is fairly dense.  Whenever I start reading his books, it takes quite a while before I get into a rhythm and start to have any idea what the heck is going on.  Once it clicks, the books are massively enjoyable, but I do know some people who read Kay for the first time and were not willing to stick with it.  Their loss.</blockquote>