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When I was accumulating reading material for my anticipated downtime this winter, I came across the Riftwar series (Raymond Feist) in a box of books from my teenagehood in the attic. I've now reread the first one and part of the next, and I just gotta say that while some of my childhood book loves have transferred over well to adulthood, I seem to have had a way higher tolerance for blatantly Tolkein-inspired Fat Fantasy when I was a teenager than I do now. A lot of this is grindingly dull for me now.
I also wonder if this would be marketed as YA now, with the first book's focus on the teenage protagonists' coming of age and first loves.
However, I'm enjoying it enough to keep going, and I still remember my favorite character in these books: Arutha, the brooding prince with the crooked smile. And he's still my favorite, so clearly that much about my tastes hasn't changed in the 30+ years since I last reread these! In fact, while I remember nothing else about the books, I still remember what part of which book in which Terrible Things Happen To Arutha because evidently I reread those parts a lot.
I also wonder if this would be marketed as YA now, with the first book's focus on the teenage protagonists' coming of age and first loves.
However, I'm enjoying it enough to keep going, and I still remember my favorite character in these books: Arutha, the brooding prince with the crooked smile. And he's still my favorite, so clearly that much about my tastes hasn't changed in the 30+ years since I last reread these! In fact, while I remember nothing else about the books, I still remember what part of which book in which Terrible Things Happen To Arutha because evidently I reread those parts a lot.
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(brief trip to Wikipedia) - Aha, not remotely all of them. Looks like I bottomed out after the first three arcs/sub-series.
I wasn't super into the earlier books, the one I liked the best was The King's Buccaneer, plus the Servant of the Empire set.
I've been picking up some childhood books and discovering that they really don't catch me anymore - some are enjoyable enough that I'll keep them around anyway, but others I just need to let go. I tried The Black Cauldron, Lloyd Alexander, and The Squire's Tale, Gerald Morris, and both of them move way too fast and have very little connective tissue or character development. It's just one Event after another. Didn't used to bother me, but I'm no longer interested.