The War of Flowers

[star.torturer]

dam them previews of new books, sory to confuse you but it was a wuote from the prologue of the war of the flowers, that apeard at the end of the book

[Foxtale]

Huh... did anyone else pick up the almost nonexistant link between September 11 that was warned against at the beginning of the book? I was looking through the book for anything close to those events, but found nothing apart from *SPOILER* the whole destruction of other Flower Houses thing *SPOILER OVER* but that has nothing to do with 9/11 really.

[Alurny]

Originally Posted by Foxtale

Huh... did anyone else pick up the almost nonexistant link between September 11 that was warned against at the beginning of the book? I was looking through the book for anything close to those events, but found nothing apart from *SPOILER* the whole destruction of other Flower Houses thing *SPOILER OVER* but that has nothing to do with 9/11 really.

Ok I am 2/3 of the way through and heres my take on it:

*spoiler*














Ok I see a few similarities:

1: Bruning rubble/staircases, saving lives, chared bodies
2. The most obvious: A flying thing attacking a building
3: Ok the thing which I related to the World Trade Center disaster was the "ash snow" which did happen IRL if you see the footage.

[Talysia]

I just finished this book, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Really clever idea, using the land of the fairies as a kind of parallel world, and a nice, imaginative take on modern fantasy.

[Applecore]

but back to the earlier thing about the books being related.....
he does tie them in subtly...

was there not a Life of Prestor John world in otherland? there were two more...but they have slipped my mind...
Oh.
In war of the Flowers, they mention sithi...
Now, i could be totally retarded....both ideas having not been his originally.....but they seemed subtle links to me ^^

[Rahl Windsong]

Just about finished THe War of The Flowers and I have to say this is perhaps the strangest fantasy story I have read to date. It is a very good story but also extremely wierd! I found that I could not completely perdict any of this story and just when I thought I had something, Tad would take it in a new direction.

I have really really enjoyed this book!

Rahl

Edit: As for the 9/11 warning from Tad, I do not get that at all....and I wish I did, and "ash snow" could also be from the eruption of Mt St Helen's so why did he not warn us about that? I could see no reason in this story to have Tad even talking about 9/11 and his story as if they are related, it makes no sense to me.

[Talysia]

I must admit, when I read about the 9/11 warning I was expecting something fairly serious, but it never came to that. In my opinion, there were only a few similarities, and I probably wouldn't have linked them together if not for the warning. That said, though, it didn't spoil my enjoyment of the book.

[Culhwch]

Originally Posted by Rahl Windsong

Edit: As for the 9/11 warning from Tad, I do not get that at all....and I wish I did, and "ash snow" could also be from the eruption of Mt St Helen's so why did he not warn us about that? I could see no reason in this story to have Tad even talking about 9/11 and his story as if they are related, it makes no sense to me.

But you have to remember that the book was released much closer to September 11... and that, I believe, he wasn't even finished writing it at the time of the attacks. In his mind, or in the minds of his publishers more likely, that link was probably indeliably made. So better to have a short foreword than to recieve letters of complaint, I guess.

[Connavar]

I am reading this tale and enjoying it.


I like how he tells the story,paints up an interesting world in your mind.

Heh i was also suprised by how creepy that hobo/cat monster was. First time something scared me in a fantasy.

[Sathai]

I enjoyed War of the Flowers. I liked the way he created a different kind of fairyland, with them also having social and political problems.

[Connavar]

Exactly what i like too. You dont expect a fairyland that is so diffrent. The different fairy clans and the politic stuff.

I cant wait to read one of his other series after this.

[Mithridelle]

I have always enjoyed reading about faeries so when I saw this book I was very happy.
I agree that the stucture of the faeries society was a huge plus in The War of the Flowers and that it made the world seem a lot more real to me.

I really hope that someone else writes a book like this one... does anyone know of a book that is simlar to this one?

[Stenevor]

Originally Posted by Mithridelle

I really hope that someone else writes a book like this one... does anyone know of a book that is simlar to this one?

The Iron Dragons Daughter by Michael Swanwick has similarities but it is very dark and is not your typical "and they all lived happily ever after" fantasy novel. Theres a review of it here with a mention for War of the Flowers- Book Reviews

I sort of have a feeling you might hate it though.

[GOLLUM]

I liked Iron Dragon's Daughter and War Of Flowers. Both were good in their own way..

[the smiling weirwood]

I absolutely loved it. I have forgotten the hobo/cat monster you speak of though. Perhaps you will remind me?