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Genre-hopping
Mar. 21st, 2005 07:22 pm27 Feb 2005
The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold - Voyager 2003
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Zerothin's Law of Genre-Hopping states that "a writer who changes genres will not be as successful in their second genre", with a corollary that "any writer who is seen as successful in more than one genre has been mis-classified". So before I started this book, I expected to give it three or four stars - an enjoyable and entertaining read, perhaps, but not a patch on the Miles Vorkosigan series. But Bujold has a) written an immensely enjoyable fantasy novel and b) managed to say something profound in the process. So it has to be five. Darn it.
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The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold - Voyager 2003
* * * * *
Zerothin's Law of Genre-Hopping states that "a writer who changes genres will not be as successful in their second genre", with a corollary that "any writer who is seen as successful in more than one genre has been mis-classified". So before I started this book, I expected to give it three or four stars - an enjoyable and entertaining read, perhaps, but not a patch on the Miles Vorkosigan series. But Bujold has a) written an immensely enjoyable fantasy novel and b) managed to say something profound in the process. So it has to be five. Darn it.
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