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| Kelpie Quote | Reply | | Tanith Lee posted on: 10/9/2005 6:49:21 PM Tanith Lee writes a lot of Dark Fantasy -- some interesting twists on vampires and werewolves, as well as some darkish Sword and Sorcery, and quite a bit of stuff that's hard to define. Some of her stories are too violent and perverse for my taste, but she writes so beautifully that I'm willing to go into darker places with her than I am with practically anyone else, and her books that are what you might call Shadowy rather than Dark are the ones that I love. "Heart Beast" and "Lycanthia" are two of her unusual treatments of werewolves. "Sabella" is a science-fictional vampire story. "Dark Castle, White Horse" is two short novels in one volume, and the first one "The Castle of Dark" is one of my favorites. Also her rather sinister retellings of familiar fairy tales in "Red as Blood." She also writes excellent short stories: very moody and evocative. Strangely enough, when she's not writing this sort of thing for adults she writes much lighter stories for YA readers. Is anyone else here a fan of Tanith Lee? |
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Rune*
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replied on: 10/10/2005 11:22:58 AM I've heard this authors book are good but cant get my hands on them. Library got nothing in and quite often only a really YA material is available at Amazon |
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replied on: 10/10/2005 4:59:56 PM Now that surprises me, because she's an English author and many of her books are published in the UK and not in the US. (Which I don't quite understand either.) In fact, I've bought several of her books from AmazonUK, once I realized there *were* books that I couldn't get over here. But if you mean used and affordable, I don't remember if any of the UK books I sent for fell into that category. I've picked up some of her older OP books used for a couple of dollars, but that may have been from our Amazon here. And some of her books seem to be limited editions and those are very pricey indeed. |
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replied on: 10/11/2005 9:09:43 AM I've also noticed some of her stuff is pricey compared to other authors books. And because Ive not tried her stuff before I dont want to spend a lot of money on one book. I'll keep trying through my library, eventaully they may come up with something. |
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replied on: 6/16/2006 9:53:22 PM Tanith Lee is one of my favorite authors. Some favorites are...Red as Blood, The Books of Paradys, the Unicorn trilogy, and The Blood Opera books. |
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replied on: 6/17/2006 8:50:53 AM I only managed to find one of this authors books in my area, and it was one of her YA ones, not as good as Id hoped to be honest. WOuld really like to try her other stuff, but still find it either out of stock on Amazon or very expensive 
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