To Ride Hells Chasm

moridin

Meant to post this ages ago actually... got this book a while back and it's really really good... anyone else read it?

Unusual in that it seems to be a standalone book, but in a good Guy Gavriel Kay type way

ixoy

I wanted to read this at some point - gimme a lend

moridin

not if you keep on with that nickname thing...

Commissar

:dunno:
I've just read it and I didn't think much of it.
To be honest I wouldn't recommend the book.

ixoy

You read any of Janny Wurts' stuff from The Wars of Light and Shadow onwards? She's got an acquired style of writing which I love, but I know plenty who find it offputting. Her books are not something whose pages you can flick through really quickly - but instead soak up the words, languages, and imagery she uses...

Commissar

To RIde Hells Chasm is the only book I have read specifically by Wurts although I have read a series which he co-wrote with Feist. The one which starts with Daughter of the Empire and linked to Feist's riftwar series.

ixoy

Ah but the style employed in "To Ride Hell's Chasm" is more like her independent work. Some find it laborious and dull - which is yourself - but I just love her use of words. It's half the joy I find when reading her, savouring her use of language the way you would wine. Whereas Feist is brief and snappy, fast-paced. His plots move along A LOT faster but I'm prepared to like both worlds

moridin

The only thing I don't like about the book is the use of italics all over the place.

I've read pretty much everything else that she's written on her own and I think they're great too, so hey, perhaps you just don't like her style of writing.

To RIde Hells Chasm is the only book I have read specifically by Wurts although I have read a series which he co-wrote with Feist.

Last time I checked Janny was a woman, she had an op?

Actually, the first part of the book is online... http://www.paravia.com/JannyWurts/Version2/ToRideHellsChasmExcerpt.html

MojoMaker

Aren't Feist & Wurts husband & wife?

moridin

Nope, he's married to Kathlyn Starbuck.

Commissar

Originally posted by moridin

Last time I checked Janny was a woman, she had an op?

A thousand apoligies; Janny Jan Jack John Jill....Who can keep track of it all:rolleyes:

My main gripe with the book, though, was when they "rode" Hell's Chasm (trying not to spoil it). It seemed too "Oh my God, no one's ever done it, they'll never make it, they're doooooomed....will you look at that..... they did it.....and lived hapily ever after." :dunno:

Can't really put it into words..... too exagerated/extreme/simplistic...?:dunno:

moridin

ah, but the only reason they survived was cos

he stuffed her in the horse carcass and got flown out by the kerrie

otherwise they'd have died