Het Verzameld Werk Van Jack Vance: De Tuin van Suldrun : Lyonesse, Boek 1 (Series #52) (Paperback)

from Karlstar

Suldrun's Garden was my 2nd introduction to fantasy novels by Jack Vance. My first was Cugel's Saga, which I disliked intensely. Suldrun's Garden was a revelation. A well written, creative, different fantasy! Not the usual sword and sworcery, heroic good vs evil book, but a thoughtful, complicate...

from salimbol

Props for its elegant prose, a certain wryness of expression, intelligent deployment of all the standard tropes of high fantasy, and many story threads cleverly tied together. However, I have to take points off for thin characterisation and excessive (if non-graphic) sexual violence.

from suzemo

Classic high fantasy. After all of the werewolves, vampires, angels, and urban-fantasy, it's nice to settle down with a classic high fantasy novel. Set in the mythical land of the Elder Isles, before the time of King Arthur, this novel has everything I needed to cleanse my fantasy palate. Good ...

from selfnoise

I should probably disclose that I am a Vance collector and die-hard. While most of his work is science-fantasy, the Lyonesse series is a historical fantasy, and a very good one. Vance's prose style is unusual and can be a hard sell; think P.G. Wodehouse with laser guns and ogres. I recommend givi...

from ashleytylerjohn

Let's be clear: it's not perfect, and it's not for everybody. But (for me) it's imperfections seem deliberate and charming. It was apparently written in the 1980s, but has the air of something written in the 1940s crossed with something written in the 1600s. If you're familiar with the "romance" ...