I too hit them at an impressionable age, and now find that they're sort of irredeemably overwrought and melodramatic... but so, so beautiful and with such a gleefully spectacular excess of detail. I'm always delighted to find that some other author I admire (Kelly Link, Mary Doria Russell) has a similar soft spot. And in turn to discover the ways in which Dunnett seems to have been influenced by other authors/figures-- Dorothy Sayers or Lawrence of Arabia, for example.
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I too hit them at an impressionable age, and now find that they're sort of irredeemably overwrought and melodramatic... but so, so beautiful and with such a gleefully spectacular excess of detail. I'm always delighted to find that some other author I admire (Kelly Link, Mary Doria Russell) has a similar soft spot. And in turn to discover the ways in which Dunnett seems to have been influenced by other authors/figures-- Dorothy Sayers or Lawrence of Arabia, for example.