Read-in-Progress Wednesday

[geraineon]

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

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Comments

[aurumcalendula]

I should reread that sometime! I think that was one of the first few urban fantasy novels.

[douqi]

Yes, I think there's some debate about whether this was first or whether De Lint was first. I did get on much better with this than my previous attempts at reading De Lint though (I'm not quite sure why, as there's nothing egregiously wrong with De Lint that I can see. We're just not sympatico).

[larryhammer]

Moonheart, which I think of as his first full-on urban fantasy despite the secondary world sections, was definitely published before War, but to many of us at the time the latter was what I'd now call the genre codifier. At the time, I was reading everything in Terri Windling's fantasy imprint as it came out, because they were all Stuff I Really Liked, and War far and away was the best.

I liked de Lint's first half-dozen novels, but connected less and less with his writing and had stopped buying by the early 90s. (Being a poor grad student made that decision easier.)