urgent Lymond question
Jul. 7th, 2004 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrian_turtleAfter having _Game of Kings_ on my various bookshelves since approximately 1987, and bouncing off the dialect more times than I can remember, I finally got far enough into it to recognize Lymond. Oh, yes. I recognized Lymond. (I wonder what it says about my social world that so many of the people I've ever fallen for have modeled some aspect of their behavior after him, whether they've read the books directly or not.) I read _Game of Kings_ last week, and just finished _Queen's Play_ this morning. It's really remarkable how these stories seem to have influenced everything.
I don't have time to track all the references I noticed, between the swordfight in the _Princess Bride_ movie, and a story about an Irish girl and her wolfhound that made an impression on me when I was 9. I'm still feeling kind of overwhelmed. I finished _Queen's Play_ this morning, and sat there on the bus with tears in my eyes. Of course, I wanted to start the next book almost at once, as soon as I caught my breath.
The "next book" I got from the library is _Pawn in Frankincense_. It has "a novel by the author of "A Game of Kings" and "Queen's Play"" on the front cover, under the title. So I didn't realize PiF is the fourth book in the series, rather than the third. Is the series one big story, or six shorter ones? (The first two are reasonably independent. But _Over Sea, Under Stone_ is quite independent of _The Dark Is Rising_, while the next three are strongly sequential.) If it's going to spoil the story, or be terribly confusing, to read 4 before 3, I can call in a request for inter-library loan and try to wait. But...Philippa! *sputter* *squee*
I don't have time to track all the references I noticed, between the swordfight in the _Princess Bride_ movie, and a story about an Irish girl and her wolfhound that made an impression on me when I was 9. I'm still feeling kind of overwhelmed. I finished _Queen's Play_ this morning, and sat there on the bus with tears in my eyes. Of course, I wanted to start the next book almost at once, as soon as I caught my breath.
The "next book" I got from the library is _Pawn in Frankincense_. It has "a novel by the author of "A Game of Kings" and "Queen's Play"" on the front cover, under the title. So I didn't realize PiF is the fourth book in the series, rather than the third. Is the series one big story, or six shorter ones? (The first two are reasonably independent. But _Over Sea, Under Stone_ is quite independent of _The Dark Is Rising_, while the next three are strongly sequential.) If it's going to spoil the story, or be terribly confusing, to read 4 before 3, I can call in a request for inter-library loan and try to wait. But...Philippa! *sputter* *squee*
