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...and it only took about eight bookshop visits and five phone calls to find it. Now I can take it to Japan, even though it's the big trade paperback that won't fit into my purse and will have to be carried by hand. But at least I have it.
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minnow1212's Zombie Lymond, and b) the series is called the Lymond Chronicles and there are two books to go.
Still reading Queens Play. Cheetahs and elephants and marmosets, oh my! Still liking Lymond more than I did in the last book, even though he has flashes of jaw-dropping jerkiness. Yes, I know you feel guilty that spoiler died in the last book and it was indirectly your fault, but that's no reason to be hateful to spoiler's spoiler and spoiler. Great supporting cast; great hunt scene, in which (or rather, after which) I see a homage to a similar scene in T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone section of The Once and Future King. Dunnett gives White a run for his money in terms of obscure vocabulary words. I am not bothering to look any of them up, but rather guessing from context or ignoring them. Still, useful to know via White (who defines many of the more esoteric ones) the meaning of the various terms for hunting dogs.
Several other people on my friendslist are reading the Lymond books right now. Do not spoil me but I gather that something extremely upsetting happens in Pawn in Frankincense, and can't help but be curious. If Lymond seems to die I will know that it's a Guy Gavriel Kay-esque fake-out, but I think I would know that anyway because a) I already know he spends the next book in Russia and he can't do that while dead unless he's
minnow1212's Zombie Lymond, and b) the series is called the Lymond Chronicles and there are two books to go. Still reading Queens Play. Cheetahs and elephants and marmosets, oh my! Still liking Lymond more than I did in the last book, even though he has flashes of jaw-dropping jerkiness. Yes, I know you feel guilty that spoiler died in the last book and it was indirectly your fault, but that's no reason to be hateful to spoiler's spoiler and spoiler. Great supporting cast; great hunt scene, in which (or rather, after which) I see a homage to a similar scene in T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone section of The Once and Future King. Dunnett gives White a run for his money in terms of obscure vocabulary words. I am not bothering to look any of them up, but rather guessing from context or ignoring them. Still, useful to know via White (who defines many of the more esoteric ones) the meaning of the various terms for hunting dogs.