/lit/ - Literature

>>8819929
I've noticed your complaints about Abraham in these threads. I happen to disagree with you (I find tDatC lacking, but tLP to be excellent), but there's not much ground for discussion there.

Now I'm curious, though. In that post you say you were promised and advertized magical beings/sentient golems, and the exploration thereof, and that you were disappointed by the relative lack of said material.

But, may I ask, where were you promised these things? And if you were, why does it seem like you hold Abraham personally responsible for what his publisher does? Or did Abraham falsely advertise his own series in an interview or something?

Pic related is what I'm going for. It's the back cover, front flap and back flap of the hardcover edition of "A Shadow in Summer" (the first and possibly the slowest book in the quartet). In the ARC of the book, the Martin quotation is basically the only thing used to advertise it. I don't know about you, but to me it seems like a very personal tale. The setting seems epic, but the tale does not. Granted, I didn't expect the book to be that slow either, but then, I didn't feel like I was being rused.

I also felt the andat were satisfactorily explored.

(I know the books were re-issued in omnibus editions with a Lawrence/Weeks type of "badass" figure in the cover, which was exceedingly weird, but that can't be what you're referring to?)

>>8820371
Awesome reading list, Anon.

>>8820418
pls read Dunnett too. pls.