I've been doing the beginning to end reread since before the release of White Gold Wielder, and I just did it again. I realized how little I knew FR with this last reread, so I am going to force myself to read Runes through AATE again. As painful as that may be. I agree with your assessment of AATE,...

I don't know. Sometimes I get the sense SRD uses words just because he can. I appreciate a good vocabulary but sometimes it stretches credulity when there is a pattern of archaic or little known words strewn throughout his works. I sometimes wonder if he isn't channeling Tolkien the philologist. I'v...

It was Elena's intervention that prevented Covenant from speaking to her. That and the ordeal at the bar with Susie Thurston and sheriff Litton.

And again: what use is floating around space going to be to Lord Foul? Who's he going to torment? A few stars maybe? Yup. If merely getting off the Earth was useful to him, he'd have done so by now. If he can't simply fly away, and fly through space, he could have made some creature that could carr...

I've finished reading FR. I liked it quite a bit, though it had an issue or two. The writing was far less annoying than in the past. I didn't feel bewildered, nor did I have to reread several times to make sure I knew exactly what he was trying to say. SRD seems to speak in riddles less than he has ...

He didn't just lose the staff, he was overwhelmed by the burdens placed on him and felt terribly inadequate to the task appointed him. He also felt terribly inadequate in comparison to the accomplishment of his parents. It was a plot device to achieve a goal. I suppose you could argue that anything ...

Somehow the Masters are being unwittingly duped by Lord Foul, and they are somehow connected with the cause of KD.
Somehow they have helped corrupt earthpower.

I'm starting to think the Mahdoubt is more about when rather than who.

She was a dusky, loamy woman, with hair like tangled brown grass , and an old face uneven and crude of outline, as if it had been inexpertly molded in clay . The hood of a tattered fallow-green cloak covered the crown of her head. And her eyes were the brown of soft mud , an unexpected and suggesti...

Thou Shall Not Take the Lord Foul's Name in Vain.

I thought the first chapter was better than the second. The incessant whining SRD allows his characters to do at times, tends to become overkill. I get the point already. Linden is upset. I did enjoy the peeks/hints into what is going on and by whom. The chapters did make me want to read more, so th...

The Unhomed.