Reading Raymond E. Feist's Magician

[bunn]

Me : it's like all the women come from a really short catalogue of fantasy women. " I'll have three Feisty Ones, six Simpering Women, twenty anonymous Servants..."

philmophlegm (with sarcasm...) : "Well, what other types of fantasy women are there...?"

*ponders*

"Oh yes, Limara the She-Wildebeeste."

Am also amused by the chainmail concept : I imagine REF thinking "hmmm.  How could we make the One Ring even cooler?  Ooh, ooh,  we'll have lots of them and we'll knit them into chainmail armour and have someone wear it!  Take THAT JRRT! "

Comments

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there is that. Some writers have a gift for names. Feist isn't one of them. Which is a shame, because there are moments when Magician is pretty good. There are moments when it is very much by-the-numbers fantasy, but on balance I think I'd give it four out of five.