First off, thanks for the list. Now I have more things I need to read.
I can only take a stab at this, since this isn't where I write, and I haven't read "The War for the Oaks" (and I only have a few brief summaries to go by)--so for me, the Newford stories are more well known . I'll agree that the two cover a lot of the same ground, though I get the impression that TWFTO focuses more on the impact that people have on faerie (feel free to tell me I'm wrong), where de Lint tends to write stories about the affect that faerie has on people. It's not a major difference, I admit, but it is why, despite my love for de Lint's Newford stories, TWFTO isn't going on the top of my reading list.
I think a more compelling reason to include de Lint is that, while TWFTO predates the Newford stories, before de Lint created Newford, he set similar stories in his native Ottawa instead, and those mostly predate TWFTO. That said, if I'm going to tell anyone to read de Lint , I will point them towards the Newford stories de Lint's ideas are more fully developed.
Now that I've said all that, I'm going to let you and anyone else weigh in and get back to actually writing.
MoC, thanks for your suggestions. Do De Lint's Newford Stories have significantly different ideas from "The War for the Oaks," which is earlier and (to me, anyway) more well known?
I can only take a stab at this, since this isn't where I write, and I haven't read "The War for the Oaks" (and I only have a few brief summaries to go by)--so for me, the Newford stories are more well known . I'll agree that the two cover a lot of the same ground, though I get the impression that TWFTO focuses more on the impact that people have on faerie (feel free to tell me I'm wrong), where de Lint tends to write stories about the affect that faerie has on people. It's not a major difference, I admit, but it is why, despite my love for de Lint's Newford stories, TWFTO isn't going on the top of my reading list.
I think a more compelling reason to include de Lint is that, while TWFTO predates the Newford stories, before de Lint created Newford, he set similar stories in his native Ottawa instead, and those mostly predate TWFTO. That said, if I'm going to tell anyone to read de Lint , I will point them towards the Newford stories de Lint's ideas are more fully developed.
Now that I've said all that, I'm going to let you and anyone else weigh in and get back to actually writing.