May-19-2011, 08:25 AM (UTC)
My opinion now is not really complex and probably unfair, as I read all RH books, but never finished a ML book, instead of her latest short stories in "The Inheritance". Therefore please don’t take it too serious.
I first read Robin Hobb and as I love her books so much, I also wanted to become familiar with ML’s books. I started with Ki and Vandien and must admit, that it didn’t thrill me that much. I don’t really know, what’s the difference, but Robin is able to tear me into her stories and doesn’t let go. ML’s characters don’t come that close to me, apart from some exceptions like i.e. Lonnie in „Strays“.
What I wanted to say is, that for me, Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm are two completely different writers with different style and different stories. RH’s style is more poetic – I love the way, she describes everything, I love her characters. Here diction is so , hm, pictoresque, polished and so, so rich and stirring (you see I go into raptures). Whereas MH’s stories are somehow strange and a bit disturbing (again: I can only judge the short-stories, because I never finished Ki and Vandien or other novels).
I feel it similar like Tintaglia: ML’ stories left a bitter taste on my tongue. I didn’t feel very comfortable with them. Even Strays made me somehow furious and also very sad .
Funny enough: Reading ML’s short stories I needed the dictionnary every little while, whereas I didn’t need it at all (more or less) with the RH stories.
RH’s stories simply overwhelm me with all her charme and magic
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I first read Robin Hobb and as I love her books so much, I also wanted to become familiar with ML’s books. I started with Ki and Vandien and must admit, that it didn’t thrill me that much. I don’t really know, what’s the difference, but Robin is able to tear me into her stories and doesn’t let go. ML’s characters don’t come that close to me, apart from some exceptions like i.e. Lonnie in „Strays“.
What I wanted to say is, that for me, Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm are two completely different writers with different style and different stories. RH’s style is more poetic – I love the way, she describes everything, I love her characters. Here diction is so , hm, pictoresque, polished and so, so rich and stirring (you see I go into raptures). Whereas MH’s stories are somehow strange and a bit disturbing (again: I can only judge the short-stories, because I never finished Ki and Vandien or other novels).
I feel it similar like Tintaglia: ML’ stories left a bitter taste on my tongue. I didn’t feel very comfortable with them. Even Strays made me somehow furious and also very sad .
Funny enough: Reading ML’s short stories I needed the dictionnary every little while, whereas I didn’t need it at all (more or less) with the RH stories.
RH’s stories simply overwhelm me with all her charme and magic
.
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