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Monday, November 2nd, 2009 07:39 pm

Dune, Frank Herbert

100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

The Summer Tree, Guy Gavriel Kay

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 08:37 am (UTC)
I'd be interested in your opinions on Dune! It's long and dry, but there's some excellent writing there too. It was the first novel I ever seriously analyzed properly--thanks to my 11th grade English Honors teacher who was the first teacher I had who actually showed us how to properly analyze a novel, and gave us a workable definition of "irony".

Also, I think you've read some of the Wheel of Time, right? Because I think the entire Aiel subplot in book 4, and the Aiel people as a whole, were blatant rip-offs from Dune.
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 10:02 pm (UTC)
I have read WoT. I'm curious to see what, if anything I recognize. It's been a long time since I gloriously broke up with Wot.