Posted by Dean McMiilan on May 07, 1999 at 12:28:38:
In Reply to: Re: 15 of 17 posted by Mick Scannell on May 04, 1999 at 07:48:33:
Mick Scannell wrote:
>As for Cugel, I've always found him to have an almost Mafiosan streak to him. To his enemies, he's implacble; to his friends, he's generous : witness the last pilgrim who Cugel returns to protect in 'Overworld', or the old bloke constructing the columns in CS.
In any event, terms like "a fop and a dandy" (applied elsewhere among these threads--I forget by whom) are grossly misdirected, in my opinion. Cugel no less than Liane the Wayfarer could be ruthless, unrelenting.
These are dangerous men, whose prettyisms mask their true propensities.
--Dean
:
: : : Tried to read _Rhialto the Marvelous_, but just couldn't get into it. Surely the least of the 4 books in the cycle. Have only managed to get through it once and remember it not at all except that it seemed not too bad a read at the time.
: IMO, it ranks above 'Overworld' but below the remaining two. I like the way in 'Rhialto' Vance conjures up a sense of the fantastic by hinting at incomprehensible arcane matters during, say, the conversation between R and his butler about the latter's tasks in the laboratory. The various mages are tantalisingly vague in their descriptions, but sufficiently so to be impressed at his imagination.
: As for Cugel, I've always found him to have an almost Mafiosan streak to him. To his enemies, he's implacble; to his friends, he's generous : witness the last pilgrim who Cugel returns to protect in 'Overworld', or the old bloke constructing the columns in CS.
: Best Regards,
: Mick