The moment that didn't work for me in TLD that meant most to me was the absorption of Foul into Covenant. I thought they would meld more into a single entity, but it's more like Covenant is containing Foul, which wasn't what I imagined, and I don't see it as the culmination of 'Covenant beats Foul, ...

Did anyone ask or comment about their dissatisfaction with the Last Chronicles? He wrote previously recognizing how difficult the story would be to write, which was a large part of why he delayed writing it for so long. Did he talk about whether he succeeded or failed (in his own opinion) in writing...

This is actually my biggest disappointment with TLD. I expected Covenant to become Lord Foul or merge with him more completely. It reads to me more like he 'contains' and 'traps' Lord Foul, similar to how Jeremiah trapped ... moksha? whichever raver, within himself, to overcome his possession.

Linden currently has Lord Foul's ring! TC gave the ring to Lord Foul. Just because he faded away when he tried to use it against TC doesn't mean TC regained rights to the ring so that he could rightfully give it to Linden. I seem to remember GI questions about this topic as well... Kinda sucks, does...

I screwed myself reading book of the new sun because i kept expecting the story to go in a certain direction. it didn't go that way and i kept reading faster and faster expecting something particular to happen. when it didn't i got frustrated and i think i stopped after the third book, or maybe i sk...

 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles...

i like having the prequel trilogy on as background noise sometimes, as i can ignore the crap and watch the good parts. i agree with most of the stuff listed. other things i like: the decapitation at the end of the mace windu vs jango fett fight. how jango just offs that one earlier jedi with a few b...

*shrug* to each his own, yes? i've been reading SRD over the years, and my taste in literature has been developing in a similar vein to his writing style. So the Last chronicles work well for me. His development as a person and author has just led him in this direction. But it is different from what...

Am I the only one who just took it as a joke?

I seem to recall SRD saying that he is forced to write by certain ideas -- he doesn't pick his ideas, they pick him. And somewhere he said that while he had the idea of the Last Chronicles for 20 years, he delayed actually writing them, letting other ideas instead bubble to the surface, take control...

i'm guessing that there will be some time when the ticket prices go down... at least i hope so. cheapest direct flight right now is $600 from philly, and it seems strange paying more than $400, as that seems to be more typical IME... dunno

i really think we should get sea and luci and srd and the rest of us altogether in abq while she's around... twould be fun to set up, and i'm betting we could get it set up, we have 6 months after all...

not sure that fulfilling the loop negates free will. i think of it like the gargoyles cartoon. if we go back in time, whatever actions we take were already part of the timeline. but we still chose those particular actions. *shrug* it makes sense to me, but i can see how some would view it as a contr...

he does have two more books to explain why they haven't intervened in the land's history more frequently.

heh. i had the same thought.

happily, srd is a doctor who fan, so he may well have had them in mind

well, roger was probably corrupted by foul early on, like joan... we just never saw the evidence of it before.

Angus needs to get money from somewhere to get repairs and supplies for his ship. He chewed on that for a while, until the implications made him feel cornered and murderous -- more like his old self than he had felt for days. Again having to feed on his rage, his way of hiding from the insecurities ...

hmm... i believe itw as srd's concession to the way we're butchering the english language, and that eventually the apostrophe would go the way of the dodo because people would forget how to use it, and so eventually it would just disappear. though nowaday's it seems people put in too many apostrophe...

i also get the impression there was a semi-trance thing going on, at least when he said it to the lords. it seemed like foul had put a geas on him, otherwise tc has an eidetic (sp) memory.

well, there is a built-in limiter because if she messes with time, then the arch will be destroyed. i think that limits her potential interference to things that have already happened, or that will not be recorded. ie, if she 'changes' the past, that change has to already be in the timestream (the t...