The Forever War
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Just started Forever Peace.Avatar wrote:Never could get into the Forever War stories for some reason. How you finding them?
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Fair question A. Prose and characters not very interesting, rudimentary even, Forever Free is a bit better in that regard. The ideas and plot of The Forever War are intriguing for sure. It is, as far as I can tell, a very influential novel, its ideas and images are recognizable from many later works. The Gap for instance.
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House of Chains - Steven Erikson
Just finished Memories of Ice.
This is my second read of the Fallen books, having also now read all the other ancillary stories. I'm getting so much more out of the Fallen books now - first time round didn't understand much at all. The end of MoI was heartbreaking.
Just finished Memories of Ice.
This is my second read of the Fallen books, having also now read all the other ancillary stories. I'm getting so much more out of the Fallen books now - first time round didn't understand much at all. The end of MoI was heartbreaking.
I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order!
"I must state plainly, Linden, that you have become wondrous in my sight."
"I must state plainly, Linden, that you have become wondrous in my sight."
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Jealous!Fist and Faith wrote:Deadhouse Landing, by Ian Esslemont!
I never even made it far enough to recognise them. Felt like I was plodding through it until I gave up. (Which is very rare for me.)Hiro wrote:Fair question A. Prose and characters not very interesting, rudimentary even, Forever Free is a bit better in that regard. The ideas and plot of The Forever War are intriguing for sure. It is, as far as I can tell, a very influential novel, its ideas and images are recognizable from many later works. The Gap for instance.
I do like his book Tool of the Trade though.
Agreed. I also struggled with them at first. I only had the first 4 (Lucimay sent me GotM and Fist sent me DHG, MoI and HoC) and the first time I read GotM I really couldn't get into it. By my second read of the 1st 4 though, it started making more sense.Iolanthe wrote:House of Chains - Steven Erikson
Just finished Memories of Ice.
This is my second read of the Fallen books, having also now read all the other ancillary stories. I'm getting so much more out of the Fallen books now - first time round didn't understand much at all. The end of MoI was heartbreaking.
I really like HoC (used to be my favourite) (now a tie between DHG and MoI) although these days I tend to only skim the first 100 / 200-odd pages of Karsa's early story.
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Reading the Erikson discussions the first read non-understanding seems to be quite common. I purposely didn't skim through Karsa's early story as I've picked up so much more this time. Ah! I thought. That's the boat Didn't connect at all the first time. Didn't like Karsa at all the first time. Now, with hindsight, I see much more in him.
I'm thinking of getting the physical books 2nd hand so that I can look for connections. Torvald Nom - I knew I'd seen his name somewhere before when he turned up later but couldn't for the life of me remember where. Goodness knows where I will put them though.
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in Chain of Dogs!
I'm thinking of getting the physical books 2nd hand so that I can look for connections. Torvald Nom - I knew I'd seen his name somewhere before when he turned up later but couldn't for the life of me remember where. Goodness knows where I will put them though.
I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order!
"I must state plainly, Linden, that you have become wondrous in my sight."
"I must state plainly, Linden, that you have become wondrous in my sight."
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Entropy in Bloom by Jeremy Robert Johnson.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
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