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I got this book ages ago on the strength of it being edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, one of my favorite authors back when this book was published in 1983. "Greyhaven" is one of the homes that MZB lived in, and "the spiritual home" to a community of writers, friends and family of the author who writ...
Just when I was about to lob this book aside, because reading these last few 'Gandalara' books has been like a slow-building venom, each instance of poor writing (and careless editing), emotional exposition, and unneeded reminders that Rikardon is very special indeed, making me more sick, the books ...
And so it ends.The 'Gandalara Cycle' was a touchstone of my adolescence, coming around at a time when I first really began exploring fantasy and science fiction as independent genres as opposed to just the more exciting brand of book. I was bowled over by it, I thought and thought and thought about ...
What happened? When I finished the first three Gandalara books I was feeling pretty confident. They'd held up reasonably well under adult scrutiny and were a fun adventure series. Starting with 'The Well of Darkness' the formula goes off, the humor vanishes, and the budding relationship between Rika...
I've had to pick up and flip through the first omnibus of this series to see if I was kidding myself about enjoying them. 'The Well of Darkness' was all backtrack-ey and too redundant to be enjoyable. There are problems here, too, but the book trades in on enough revisiting of characters from the fi...
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