AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
Posted on: January 3, 2007
Interview: Author Guy Gavriel Kay @ Blogcritics.org
I completely forget that the new Guy Gavriel Kay was being released this month. Official release date is January 8th but my local store already has it out. How could I have missed it in the store today? Maybe they’re keeping it on the down low until the Boxing Week 30% off all hardcovers sale ends. That better not be it because I’ll be there tomorrow demanding a copy.
Screw contextualist criticism, I need Ysabel! I highly recommend the interview: the interviewer focuses on Kay’s work rather than dumb questions on his pets or whether he writes with pen & paper or computer. Guy Gavriel Kay is an intelligent author, able to explore his ideas elegantly with a distinctive style that makes him one of the premiere fantasy writers (although most of his work isn’t “fantasy” per se, as is explained in the interview).
5 Responses to "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!"
January 5, 2007 at 12:14 am
A friend of mine so insisted that I should read Fionavar Tapestry that he sent me the entire set. That was probably the best gift of books I ever got from anyone because I absolutely loved it. I have Tigana and Song for Arbonne on my shelf waiting to be read, but I’m saving it for when I can ignore the rest of the world and read them from cover to cover.
January 5, 2007 at 1:19 am
Dark Orpheus they were quite tragic. Kay is definitely not afraid of serving emotional punches out in full measure.
I actually have not read those yet, either, although I will (eventually) after reading what he said about it in the interview. Made them sound more interesting than anything else I’ve heard. I’m not one for historical fiction usually. I have read Last Light of the Sun and I enjoyed it immensely.
Tarlia that was certainly a present to remember. How wonderful to receive a book present that fits you perfectly.
January 5, 2007 at 11:15 am
Well cheers and thanks for the link to that interview I did with Mr. Kay – hell I never even think to ask what they’re doing next, let alone what colour ink they write in – Do people really waste author’s time with such inane questions? I’d be stopping doing interviews real fast if that was the quality of question I was dealing with.
I don’t think the books are sad particularily, they are just real – Kay doesn’t coddle a reader’s emotions with false sentiment like so many writers, and when you are finally brought face to face with an author who can really strip it bare it’s more a shock then anything else.
but hey that’s just my opinion – cheers enjoy Ysabel and all of the rest of his books, there is nothing to be afraid of.
cheers
Richard Marcus
January 5, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Richard oh you can’t imagine some of the crappy interviews I’ve read in papers where the exercise is clearly meant to be more of a “glamour shot” than anything else. I’m not even fond of author profiles as they give a lot of extraneous information that I’m rarely interested in.
Thanks for the comments on the books!
The Books of My Numberless Dreams 
January 4, 2007 at 8:21 pm
I haven’t read any Guy Gavriel Kay titles since the “Fionavar Tapestry” and “Tigana.” These books were so sad, especially “Tigana.”
I still have “The Lions of al-Rassan” and “Sailing to Sarantium” sitting on the shelf unread. Wonder if I will ever get around to “Ysabel.”