Fionavar Tapestry--should I keep reading?

[Zsofia]

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

[Tom_Scud]

@emmaliminal

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.

[Malthus]

@Tom_Scud

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.