Re: What are you reading?

royaldragon@gmail.com said:
> 3. Silverthorn by Feist. Finally working my way through the riftwar books.
> I'm not totally sold, honestly. They feel like fairly typical 15year old
> boy books to me, and I'm annoyed by how every woman in them fits neatly
> into a stereotype in a way I probably wouldn't have been if I'd read them
> as a teen like everyone else did. But they're entertaining enough to keep
> going. And I'm told the woman thing gets better in later books?

I read the first Riftwar book -- Magician, I think. It wasn't bad, it wasn't
great. With the other dimension scenes, I kept thinking that it somehow felt
like Barker's Tekumel/Empire of the Petal Throne RPG. Several years later,
I heard that Feist wrote his stuff based on an RPG a friend was running,
which coincidentally was based on Tekumel/EPT.

I've read Barker's "Man of Gold" and "Flamesong" and loved them. I can't
say they don't have the female stereotypes because I never read them with
that in mind. Also, I don't recall how sensitive I was to stereotypes when
I read them. But the world-building is fantastic, and it's not a generic
medievelish fantasy setting.

Wayne

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