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Post by Kypriotha on Dec 3, 2017 9:35:38 GMT 10
A friend of mine, who likes the Tortall books, has only read Circle of Magic once when she was younger and didn't really enjoy them. I'm trying to convince her to re-read them now as an adult. What types of arguments or reasons would you use to try and sell the books to an older reader?
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Post by mistrali on Dec 3, 2017 15:31:43 GMT 10
It’s hard to say. And it depends on the person. They would have to enjoy fantasy in the first place.
I first read and fell in love with them at about 12, so my reading tends to be coloured with familiarity and happy, warm feelings that have built up over the years. Those books have a soothing effect on me, much the same as a nice cup of tea or a bath.
I might start by introducing them to Street Magic, Cold Fire or Shatterglass, at the risk of spoiling CoM. Those have got a larger cast of characters, more worldbuilding and the whodunit+magic factor.
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Post by devilinthedetails on Dec 5, 2017 1:40:23 GMT 10
A friend of mine, who likes the Tortall books, has only read Circle of Magic once when she was younger and didn't really enjoy them. I'm trying to convince her to re-read them now as an adult. What types of arguments or reasons would you use to try and sell the books to an older reader? An excellent question. I wonder if you could tailor your approach to the particular reader since she's a friend of yours.Do you know what aspects of the books that she didn't like were? Perhaps you could address those. Do you know what aspects of the Tortall books that appeal to your friend? Maybe see if you can find commonalties--similar world-building, or characterization, or just Tammy's writing style--to maybe bridge the Emelan series with the Tortall ones a bit in your friend's head? In some ways, I actually think that the Emelan books might be a bit more mature than the Tortall ones, so in that way they may appeal more readily to an older reader compared to a younger one unless part of the attraction of the Tortall books for your friend is the nostalgia factor (which I could understand; I definitely have a lot of memories attached to reading the Tortall books during difficult teenage times). Hope this helps! Good luck convincing your friend to try a re-read  |
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Maybe once we'd have seen it during Smackdown!