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Sailing to Sarantium ?
-- if so, please turn it over to someone else; I wonʻt be at the keyboard for 10 or 12 hours.
This morning I finished the wonderful Sarantine Mosaic (Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay).
I am now going to read The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor.
Finished the wonderful Sarantine Mosaic (Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay).
After seeing a recommendation of this in a thread on LT (and it actually being in the library) I am now reading The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor.
Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay (start Oct 7 - finished Oct 9) (reviewed)
Loved it! So much that I am going to read the second book straight away. I also need some time to ...
Sailing to Sarantium , well actually in a Posting Inn in Sauradia.
... or The forests of the heart.
Most of what Guy Gavriel Kay writes - lmost notable in The Lions of Al-Rassan and The Sarantine Mosaic IMO.
I don't have to be asked twice. Thank you for the thought, Teazle!
#1 by G.B. Stern ~ Mosaic , Shining and Free, and The Young Matriarch (O.K. I think these don't exist as Viragos. Does anybody know?) (Too lazy to look through the list right now)
#2 ANYTHING by Winifred Holtby except< ...
I managed to get Sailing to Sarantium the first book of the Sarantine Mosaic for 40p. The nice volunteer in the charity shop went down to the stockroom to see if Lord of Emperors was there but unfortunately she couldn't find it.
... characters are terrorists and I couldn't deal with that. Loved Lions of al-Rassan, and thought the second book after Sailing to Sarantium , Lord of Emperors was much better. The first book was blah, but the second has a different POV and is much less limp.
I forget what I posted ...
... Tigana a close second. I've read a couple more of Kaye's works but didn't find them nearly as compelling (Ysabel and Sailing to Sarantium ), yet I'll continue to read more by him because al-Rassan and Tigana were so very good.
Just finished The Cavalier of the Apocalypse by Susanne All ...
... goes for the male protagonists as well, whether I personally would think their features beautiful. Possibly Crispin, from The Sarantine Mosaic , is an exception - I seem to remember him described as a not very nice OR nice looking fellow.
Even king Ademar of Gorhaut, whose behaviour is ...
Sailing to Sarantium
... and develops throughout them even if there's no connection as such between them.
There's a strong connection with the Sarantine Mosaic as well, but not as obvious as in the ones which came before it.
#1
---by G.B. Stern ~ Mosaic (Why the Touchstones won't work now, I couldn't say. I just found it when I posted on "Current Virago")Shining and Free, and The Young Matriarch O.K. I think these don't exist as Viragos.
#2
ANYTHING by Winifred Holtby except Poor Caroline and Sout ...
While wildly unhistorical (and besides, I don't read historical fiction) Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors (a duology) renewed my curiosity about Byzantium, just like The Lions of Al-Rassan fed my interest for the moorish period on the Iberian peninsula. The last I already knew quite ...
... Goodwin, who has also written a couple of sequels, The Snake Stone and The Bellini Card
The Sarantine Mosaic novels (Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors) by Guy Gavriel Kay, fantasy novels set in a thinly disguised version of Byzantium
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
One ...
... sometimes when you finish reading a beloved book. I, too, love it for those very reasons you mentioned. Tigana and his Sarantine Mosaic duology has exactly the same effect upon me as well.
Whisper - Oh now that's a compliment. I won't evilly direct you to my LisaCurcio in Club Read 2009 : LisaCurcio's 2009 Reading (Mar 6, 2009, 5:18pm)
... I liked Tigana a great deal. Just discovered Kay last year, and have also read The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy, the Sailing to Sarantium duology and Ysabel. Thought they were all good, and would probably rate Tigana second to The Fionavar Tapestry books. Sometimes a book just ...
... heh). It's one of my most favourite, beloved books. If you like it, I also highly recommend The Lions of Al Rassan, The Sarantine Mosaic (a duology) and The Last Light of the Sun. A Song for Arbonne is good too, but not as good (in my opinion at least) as the others I listed...
Can ...
... Fionavar Tapestry.
Most of Kay's works don't have the "usual dwarves, elves and orc-like creatures"; they're more like Sailing to Sarantium . BTW, did you know that there's a sequel to the latter? Lord of Emperors It ties up the story nicely.
Try Tigana if you're of a mind for some ...
... Although this story has mages, dwarves, elves and orc-like creatures, (unlike other Kay books I have read: Ysabel and Sailing to Sarantium ) the depth and breadth of the story is great and develops the relationships in more interesting ways than other fantasy I have read.
... and the author, Guy Gavriel Kay especially to those who, like me, are not avid fantasy readers.
I have also read Sailing to Sarantium and Ysabel, and have enjoyed every one of his books immensely.
The Fionavar Tapestry includes the usual dwarves, elves and orc-like creatures. I ...
... ies
The Sea Lark's Song by Diana Marcellas
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
The Visitor by Sheri S. Tepper
Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
Requiem for the Sun by Elizabeth Haydon
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
& with my $80 borders voucher (+ $6 out of ...
... Byzantium and they are excellent. There are also only 2 of them, so no need to worry about dragging things on too long:
Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors
... called Lavinia. I haven't read it myself either, so I can't give much more information than that, though. There's also Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay that might be worth looking into. I think that's based on Constantinopel. (He's definitely written one; I just can't recall the ...
... Takes some time to parse, very good book, IMHO.
Or something by G G Kay, like Lions of Al-Rassan, or the Sarantine Mosaic .
On another take - the Dresden-files books are fast reads that don't demand too much concentration, which sometimes can be good when having to keep an ...
from the fantasy realm:
Severus Snape
Crispin the mosaicist from Guy Kay's Sailing to Sarantium
Eustace Clarence Scrubb (pre-dragon)
... and The Lions of Al-Rassan are among his best work in my opinion as already mentioned. But I'd also recommend his Sarantine Mosaic duology which is, honestly, utterly haunting.
Also - you might like Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel series - a warning though, it can be a bit risque, but P ...
... so few, but Guy Gavriel Kay writes beautifully historical fantasies. His take on the Byzantine empire in his duologi The Sarantine Mosaic is very wellwritten, and a beautifully rendered timepiece.
4. Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
Pretty decent but not one of GGK's best. I was surprised to find that a book with a Mosaist as the protagonist would actually not bore me. I like royal intrigue type material however, and this book and its sequel do not disappoint.
5. Lord ...
... Tigana feels like a first or early work. Which it is, of course. But IMHO A song for Arbonne, Lions of Al-Rassan and The Sarantine Mosaic is better, both for prose, pacing, and characterization.
... unnamed world. In order of publication: The Lions of Al-Rassan (Spain at the time of El Cid), the Sarantine Mosaic of Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors (Byzantium at the time of Justinian), and Last Light of the Sun (the British Isles at the time of Alfred the Great). All of ...
... have it done by the end of Tuesday.
Next up is:
The Fall by Albert Camus
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
and
Paradise Lost by John Milton
49. Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay. 7 stars. LT Really good fantasy, though nowhere as great as The Lions of al-Rassan, which is my favorite Kay so far, or Tigana, but it might have garnered 8 stars except that the ending was just so disappointing. I know this is the first of a ...
... first chapter are really interesting, and I think it's going to be a fascinating look at modern China. However, I borrowed Sailing to Sarantium from the library, and it's due back on Tuesday, so I may have to read that one first.
I don't mind multiple-part fantasy either, just make sure you've got easy access to Lord of Emperors once you finish Sailing to Sarantium , and don't expect much (if anything) to be wrapped up by the end of the first book.
And no, my name came from long before Firefly the show, back ...
#49 The Lions of al-Rassan really is brilliant, isn't it!?! I'm looking forward to Sailing to Sarantium and hope for the best. I don't mind books that are continued in second and third parts, having cut my fantasy eyeteeth on LotR. I didn't know it was set in the same world as Lions, though. ...
>45 Storeetllr - Sailing to Sarantium is, in my opinion, not as good as Lions of Al-Rassan, mainly because it's the first half of a duology, so on its own it feels unfinished (I'm only partway through the second book, Lord of Emperors, at the moment, so I can't really comment on it yet, ...
... written more together.
Any book by Guy Gavriel Kay is likely to be good. I have never found a bad one by him. I enjoyed Sailing to Sarantium as well as The Lions of al-Rassan.
... on the history of the Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval Spain.
I just picked up (in lieu of Lackey's novel) Sailing to Sarantium by the same author which, the cover says, is a fantasy based on the Byzantine Empire. I'm hoping it's as good as The Lions of al-Rassan.
Oh, I've heard of Sailing to Sarantium . My first Kay was The Lions of al Rassan, which was brilliant and almost as much a favorite as Tigana is turning out to be. I guess I like 'em long, when they're as well done as Kay does them. :)
Lord of Emperors is the second half of The Sarantine Mosaic , his one duology. It's definitely best to start with Sailing to Sarantium; the two books are really more like one very long book in two volumes.
> 18 - The Last Light of the Sun is the one you couldn't remember. Sailing to Sarantium and the sequel, Lord of Emperors, are the two that are set in Byzantium. There's also The Lions of Al-Rassan which is loosely set in Spain during the time of religious complications between Christians, Mu ...
... seller
48. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan - keeper
49. A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. - seller
50. Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay - KEEPER
51. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus, vol. 1 - library
52. Midnight Days by Neil Gaiman - library
53. Lord ...
...
I wasn't expecting much from this when I decided to tackle it last year. I'd enjoyed all Kay's other books, (especially The Sarantine Mosaic ), but I found that there were often stretches where my attention lagged in a pretty big way. This is his longest offering, so I was expecting quite a ...
50. Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay - keeper
This was my second time through this book, and I am SO GLAD I reread it right now. I enjoyed it even more than the first time. Armed with the knowledge of how everything turns out, I found myself blown straight out of the water by Ka ...
... the plane with me.
I also plan to return to some Guy Gavriel Kay over the next little bit. I figure I'll start with Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors, then move on to my absolute favourite book: Tigana. Once I've exhausted those, I plan to read Shogun by James Clavell. ...
April, you might want to look at Guy Kay. His best works are historical sorta-fantasies: The Lions of al-Rassan, Sailing to Sarantium , Lord of Emperors, and Tigana, which has a stronger fantasy element.
Some suggestions:
What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies, about an art historian/restoration expert.
Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay, about a mosaicist living in an alternate version of the Byzantine Empire.
The Griffin & Sabine books by N ...
... Anybody up for two? If I were going to re-read something of his, it would be the Sarantine Mosaic, which consists of Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors. Crispin is an arrogant ding-a-ling, but I like almost everything else. Another possibility is Ysabel, which just came out ...
... The Lions of al_Rassan is set in Spain while the Catholics, Muslims, and Jews are there just before the reconquista, and Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors are set in Byzantium during the empire.
... Green Knowe by L. M. Boston
The spring rain bleeds through
names in the family Bible,
leaving trails of ink.
23. Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
Gleaming tesserae:
wheels of light below the dome;
tickets to the race.
24. The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs
The ...
... ead.
Maybe the closest connection on the Kay side are The Lions of Al-Rassan and A Song for Arbonne, but I'm thinking The Sarantine Mosaic and Tigana as well.
On the Cherryh side... well, all her books that I've read. Which is only a few out of a wast production. Still, they are in some ...
... between GGKay and Cherryh, Bus, was there something in particular that makes you think that? (I've read Tigana and The Sarantine Mosaic books.
... fantasy series I read and have firmly ensconced GGK as my all time favorite author. Another of his books in a series is The Sarantine Mosaic , absolutely fantastic. I belong to a really great fan community at brightweavings.com that other fans of Guy Gavriel Kay should check out if you ...
Not sure I am contributing with anything new, but else consider this a 'me too' post:-)
Guy Gavriel Kay Sarantine Mosaic , The Lions of Al-Rassan
Judith Tarr's historical fantasy The Hound and the Falcon
Gene Wolfe New Sun series
Ellen Kushner Swordspoint
Martha We ...
... my vote for:
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Sarantine Mosaic by Guy Gavriel Kay. (A duology made up of Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors).
What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies. Definitely more magical realism than straight fantasy, but still a ...
... of fantasy that omits him is limping... OK?
So I nominate Tigana, The Lions of Al-Rassan, and The Sarantine Mosaic (Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emperors).
Also, of course, Ursula K Le Guin. Nominating the Earthsea Cycle (5 books - Tales from Earthsea, A wizard from Earthsea, ...
8. Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay. Always fun to read, this is the first of a series about a mosaicist in a Roman-like setting. Fun.
9. Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay. Second of series, the story of court intrigue in fictional Sarantium continues.
I too wonder how old a book have to be to count.
My 5 cents is on The Lions of Al-Rassan, or the duo Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emperors.
All same author as Tigana above.
And I think that as fantasy goes the original three Earthsea novels is a must-read.
... of Robin Hobb that I figured I should give it another go. Hobb has since become one of my absolute favourite authors.
Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay. Lots of people on the Green Dragon kept mentioning Kay's work, so I figured I'd give him a go after I found this in a thrift ...
... set in the past'.
I second Guy Gavriel Kay, though. Tigana, A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan and the duo Sailing to Sarantium + Lord of Emperors definitely fit the bill.
... one of Tolkien's disciples. Favourites are Tigana, and A Song for Arbonne, The Lions of Al-Rassan and the duo Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emperors.
Sometime very explicit and not always nice sex - some of his characters uses sex as a power tool.
Cherryh is more of a 'scienc ...
... Gavriel Kay writes fantasy with an historical base. Most of his books are stand-alones. My favourites are Tigana and The Sarantine Mosaic duology.
Naomi Novik. Another one who's already been suggested, but she's worth repeating. She writes about the Napoleonic wars, only with ...
#50 Jim53 - I just discovered GGK and loved Sailing to Sarantium . I just picked up the Fionaver Tapestry books on Friday, and will be starting in tonight. Can't wait.
... .
But please try The Lions of Al-Rassan, A Song for Arbonne, Tigana and The Sarantine Mosaic (also as two books - Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emperors).
(Haven't read Ysabel so no comment on that one.)
... not mentioned here - Teot's War and Blood storm by Heather Gladney.
People who like Guy Kay and in particular Sailing to Sarantium - here's another book you might enjoy - a historical, but it's about a gifted sculptor, and has incredibly well realized and complex characters with ...
... Mosaic in one volume, but I think it's only available in hardcover.
Personally, I found that the characters in Sailing to Sarantium drew me in because they were wonderfully developed, not because I particularly liked them. I remember realizing, halfway in, that I wasn't ...
Oh, Sailing to Sarantium is good, but it's nothing without the sequel - Lord of Emperors. They really should have been ONE book, but maybe the publisher thought 800+ pages would be too much, or they thought they could make more money on two books than on one?
Anyway, I hope you enjoy it (I ...
... to believe in fairies to believe the story, and I just can't bring myself around to that.
I think The Sarantine Mosaic (Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors) is a good way to start. Or The Lions of Al-Rassan. But depending on your sensitivity levels that one could possibly contain ...
... series? Could something be a series even if it's not published as such?
I'm thinking of Guy Gavriel Kay and the books Sailing to Sarantium & Lord of Emperors. Those two are a duology - The Sarantine Mosaic.
Very good, I ordinarily don't enjoy all these swords'n'sorcery, dragons'n'fair ...
Just finished Sailing to Sarantium and last night started Lord of Emperors. Thoroughly enjoying Guy Gavriel Kay as an author, with only the tiniest amount of annoyance at his constantly leaving the reader hanging at a critical moment to switch character point of view. Perhaps this wouldn't ...
... waiting for the last (?) 400 (?) pages to be published in that format ;-)
Also, I found the prologue and start to Sailing to Sarantium tedious, and had I not read Kay before I'd probably put it down. It too was worth the hard work.
Adventure and romance? And fantasy? I'd say almost anything by Guy Gavriel Kay. Top picks are Sailing to Sarantium + Lord of Emperors (equals The Sarantine Mosaic ), Tigana, A Song for Arbonne and The Lions of Al-Rassan.
He's wicked on character/emotional driven plots, plus is ...
... in Bethlehem by Jane Haddam
City of God by St. Augustine
The City and the Stars by Arthur C Clarke
Sailing to Sarantium by Guy G Kay
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
#247 - domeloki - I agree with xicanti, Sailing to Sarantium is a good start! Be sure to get your hands on the sequel,Lord of Emperors, though, because at least to my mind that's where the story really starts going :-)
#247 domeloki - I think Sailing to Sarantium is a great place to start with Kay. It's where I began, and it made me eager to dig into everything he's written.
... bookstore Mysterious Galaxy found me leaving with Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay. GGK has been so highly recommended on the Green Dragon that I felt it time to start reading. Unfortunately they didn't have T ...
...
20. War for the Oaks - Emma Bull
21. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
22. Knight Life - Peter David
23. Sailing to Sarantium - Guy Gavriel Kay
24. Lord of Emperors - Guy Gavriel Kay
25. Green Darkness - Anya Seton
26. Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Rea ...
... which has Christian, Moorish, and Jewish characters and is set during the Spanish reconquista. His two Sarantium books Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors, set in declining Byzantium, are fantastic as well.
... Arbonne and The Lions of Al-Rassan, the last of which I still think is the best (I've read those two plus Tigana and Sailing to Sarantium /finished yesterday/ - all of them good but with Lions... as an absolute favourite).
I'm very excited to have found an author this good!
#39 - I've only read three of his books thus far, (the first two Fionavar novels and Sailing to Sarantium ), but it seems like he's still finding his stride in the earlier books. They're much more in the traditional fantasy vein, and they do a lot with archetypes and Celtic/Arthurian legends. I ...
... and Invader (part 2/3 of the first sequence in the Foreigner series).
With delivery times that would allow me to finish Sailing to Sarantium + The Myth of Evil /which is currently on hold/ before the new books arrive ;-)
... remember!
As far as current reads go, I just finished The Summer Tree and am ready to start on The Wandering Fire. Sailing to Sarantium left me with a strong desire to read everything Guy Gavriel Kay has ever written. I was initially pretty disappointed with The Summer Tree, but ...
The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay. I'm really looking forward to it; I finished Sailing to Sarantium last weekend and was very, very impressed. Hopefully this one will be just as good.
... pile a little, I just had to order Children of Hurin 'cause it just sounds too good to put off any longer!
I loved the Sarantium Mosaic books, they are both excellent. Kay truly is an amazing writer. I hope that the movies coming out will do his books justice. I think they're making The ...
#'s 289 & 290 - I read Sailing to Sarantium a week or so ago and absolutely fell in love with Kay's work. It's a beautiful book.
Busifer, I just read Sailing to Sarantium a few weeks ago and loved it and its sequel. Probably not up to The Lions of al-Rassan, but amazing nonetheless.
I'm excited to start reading Temeraire (aka His Majesty's Dragon, I think the British version has a different name) after I finish L ...
Today I'll start reading Sailing to Sarantium which I originally had planned to read a month ago... but while waiting for it to arrive in the mail I started on Foreigner: a novel of first contact, and then I put that on hold to be able to read Elantris...
So, with both of those books ...
... sites and even if the overseas shipping costs are quite high it at several occasions was the cheapest deal.
I bought Sailing to Sarantium that way, and it ended up about £2 cheaper than through Abe!
(Sailing... isn't available new)
Definitely Elantris by Brandon Sanderson, with Thieves & Kings: The Winter Book by Mark Oakley and Sailing To Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay coming in close behind.
73. Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay - keeper
74. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville - library
75. Walking After Midnight by Karen Robards - seller
76. Fables: Homelands by Bill Willingham et al - library
77. Magician: Master by Raymond E. Feist - ...
... most of the things I was really looking for, but I was sad not to see more by Guy Gavriel Kay. I'm currently reading Sailing to Sarantium , and am eager to explore more of his work.
But anyways, I got...
By R.A. Salvatore:
In Sylvan Shadows
Night Masks
The Fallen Fortres ...
I'm almost finished Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay. I'm loving it, and am really hoping to find some more of his work at a used book market I'm going to tomorrow.
... what to read next; I figured I'd probably feel let down by the next book I picked up. I eventually decided to start in on Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay, inspired in part by all the people who've said that Elantris reminds them of Kay's work.
Got my copy today, and not only that - a long awaited 2nd hand copy of Sailing to Sarantium bought from a US dealer arrived as well!
The result being some kind of panic, as I'm currently reading two books - The Myth of Evil and Foreigner : a novel, both good but both slow going as I'm ...
... I haven't really read yet.
Guy Gavriel Kay also has a couple of strong female characters in his Sarantium duology - Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors. I'd highly, highly recommend those.
I have three favorites from this month - Sailing to Sarantium and Lord of Emperors, both by Guy Gavriel Kay, and also Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir. I loved Weir's no-nonsense interpretation of Eleanor's life and it was so readable, intelligent, and informative that it is one ...
... and the other discusses how the ideas on body, race, gender etc. has evolved.
Also, at last I ordered an used copy of Sailing to Sarantium . It is impossible to get a new one, but I'm not too keen on buying used ones online, without having seen them.
It haven't arrived yet as I ...
Just finished Sailing to Sarantium and am now going to start Lord of Emperors, both by the amazing Guy Gavriel Kay. I'm really looking forward to the second half of the story.
23. Sailing to Sarantium - Guy Gavriel Kay
This man can write .
31) Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay (start Oct 7 - finished Oct 9) (reviewed)
Loved it! So much that I am going to read the second book straight away. I also need some time to ...
