# Fionavar Tapestry--should I keep reading?

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**Created:** [January 11, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fionavar-tapestry-should-i-keep-reading/567184 "2011-01-11T02:39:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fionavar-tapestry-should-i-keep-reading/567184/21 "2011-01-12T15:56:33Z")

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I loved loved loved _The Summer Tree_. The trilogy descends into total suck by the last one. Stop now.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fionavar-tapestry-should-i-keep-reading/567184/22 "2011-01-12T16:17:50Z")

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> [@emmaliminal](#):
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> I agree with that, mostly – I don’t think Reason #1, defamiliarization, actually works very well in practice, because I’m spending so much energy thinking “Gosh! How familiar this scenario seems!” Though I did mentally calm down a little about it after reading some of his afterwords and realizing that he \*knows \*he’s writing historical fiction, not fantasy, in a sense (not all senses), and doesn’t mind who knows it. The vague, unexamined sense that the author was trying to fool me somehow was bugging me, I think.

I will admit to being annoyed by the Carlo Ginzburg fest in Tigana (I think it was), probably because I’d read _The Night Battles_ not long before.

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**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fionavar-tapestry-should-i-keep-reading/567184/23 "2011-01-12T17:35:26Z")

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> [@Tom\_Scud](#):
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> I will admit to being annoyed by the Carlo Ginzburg fest in Tigana (I think it was), probably because I’d read _The Night Battles_ not long before.

Is that the bit about the people born with a caul fighting supernatural battles to save the harvest?

I strongly suspected that was based on a real superstition, but had no real clue who held it or when.

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