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I am a Dorothy Dunnett convert and addict.  I tried to read The Game of Kings about two years ago.  It was way over my head and a LOT of work.  It was, in fact, quite a struggle to read.  Then there was a scene that mildly horrified me and I just stopped and put it down. 

I occasional frequent a books board of one of my favorite authors and this author and these books just kept coming up.  Well, I read so much I literally run out of quality fiction that is to my taste, so I decided to try again.  I read beyond the point I stopped last time, even skimming some of the beginning.  I found I had to ignore many of the quotes, poetry, French quotations that I didn't understand or was too lazy to google.  I fell in love.  With an author, a series, a main character. 

Reading these books feels like what Cesar's dogs must feel like.  After a brief interlude with some other very good authors, I am back reading a second series and I feel like I am in the competent hands of a master.  So even though I am literally too stupid to "get" much of what she writes (incredibly, I truly think the author is Mensa material on steriods), she is such a fabulous storyteller that I get carried away anyway.

Anyone interested in the literary ride of their life?  Care for a challenge (get past page 100)?  Love to discuss Dorothy Dunnett with me?  Please?