M.A.N.
Scribe
@Ravana: Wow! I mean ... wow!
I don't know how well you know Nick Perumov. He's pretty popular in Sweden and obviously a god in his own country, Russia.
I've read the first book and there's a lot of words from his own fantasy language in it. What make's it special is that he (and the swedish publisher) uses cyrillic letters. (And some even upside down I think!)
This looks pretty impressive, but impossible for most westerners to read. And the problems get worse when these names of really important swords and characters looks similar, but you can't voice them and so you can't seperate them.
So if I had a choice, I would love to read his books without his own fantasy language.
As it is now, the whole bit with his fantasy language is what makes me not read them.
Take care,
Magnus
I don't know how well you know Nick Perumov. He's pretty popular in Sweden and obviously a god in his own country, Russia.
I've read the first book and there's a lot of words from his own fantasy language in it. What make's it special is that he (and the swedish publisher) uses cyrillic letters. (And some even upside down I think!)
This looks pretty impressive, but impossible for most westerners to read. And the problems get worse when these names of really important swords and characters looks similar, but you can't voice them and so you can't seperate them.
So if I had a choice, I would love to read his books without his own fantasy language.
As it is now, the whole bit with his fantasy language is what makes me not read them.
Take care,
Magnus