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JohnBem
Posted 2017-04-02 9:45 PM (#15534 - in reply to #13703)
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Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania		Finally, after almost a month of effort, I've finished The Birthgrave by Tanith Lee. My first ever work by Lee, and it was a doozy. I really liked it, but Lee's style of writing, the unique and rich and weird story, demanded a slower, more studious reading pace. As oblique and odd as McKillip's Riddlemaster trilogy sometimes was, the prose was light and skipped along quite easily. As dense as Eddison's The Worm Ourorboros was, it was written in a pseudo-archaic style which I find comfortable and with which I am familiar (thanks to books like Spenser's The Faerie Queene) and so that was a relatively quick read for all it's density. But something about The Birthgrave made me slow down and read more reflectively, philosophically even in some passages. Ultimately it is a very good book. The slower pace puts me closer to the High Fantasy challenge deadline than I wanted to be at this stage of things, but I've only got two books to go, and even though they're the final two books in Lee's Birthgrave trilogy, they're both significantly shorter works, so I should be fine.

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