On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:12:13 -0500, Aaron Bergman
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> wrote:
>_The Misenchanted Sword_, Lawrence Watt-Evans
>
>The old Ethshar books are getting reissued in paperback with reasonably
>attractive covers. I like a lot of Watt-Evans's recent stuff, but this
>novel never really came together for me. Watt-Evans has a tendency to
>write books wherein the protagonist is presented with an intellectual
>puzzle that must be solved. In the better books like _Dragon Venom_ and
>sequels, this is surrounded with an interesting setting and some sort of
>emotional investment. In his poorer books like _The Spriggan Mirror_,
>there is little more than the intellectual exercise. This book has an
>interesting setting, but it felt a bit like a fix-up of short stories
>exploring the consequences of the "misenchantment". What it lacked was
>emotion, in particular towards the end of the book. Still, Watt-Evans is
>a decent craftsman in writing, and I'll stick with the reissues in
>paperback to see how things go.
Interesting that it didn't work for you. I tend to agree with you
that I'm a better writer now than I was then, and that the Obsidian
Chronicles are superior to the Ethshar books, but _The Misenchanted
Sword_ remains by far my best-selling novel to date. _Someone_ out
there likes it.
Oh, and no, it wasn't a fix-up, nor was any ****tion of it ever a short
story.
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