Runes -no spoilers

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:12 pm

When Fist says the prologue is intense he isn't kidding!

Over the weekend I got a chance to read that and the first couple of chapters (spending time with the living was more important to me than reading a book

) and just that little bit of the book blew me away.

Damelon had just picked up his copy before meeting me, and I warned him several times about how intense that prologue is.

Post by **IrrationalSanity** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 11:26 pm

I got mine today. I read the "what has gone before" but now I must be strong until tomorrow, when I can read it on my flight to the UK - or maybe start in the airport lounge...

Post by **StarRider** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:16 pm

I didn't even bother with the prologue - hell i know that part cold. I jumped right in to the new stuff.

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:23 am

What? I understand that like me you had probably read the 1st chapter of the prologue a dozen times since it was first posted on SRD's website - but how could you know the other 4 chapters so well?

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:24 am

The Prologue is the first 77 pages. I had only seen the first 16 of them, Mother's Son, on SRD's site.

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:27 am

Same here, Fist.

Post by **caamora** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 5:11 pm

I am about half way through the book at this point and I am devouring every word. I have to put it aside tonight to go back and do a dissection on the second chrons. AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Danlo said:

HAHAHA Now I'm sick--I'm beyond hope: delaying it's opening is like prolonging an orgasm...

That is also a great analogy!!!!

Darth - stop doing that!!!! I don't want to hear anything about the book until we all finish reading it!!! Stick to the other forum!!!

Post by **aliantha** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:21 pm

Done! Finished it over the weekend. I've already posted some stuff in the Runes thingum (if anyone cares, which probably they don't...).

Is it just me, or is the font a tad small? I wonder how many pages the darn thing would've been if they'd used 12 pt type??

Post by **danlo** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:40 pm

Since I usually only buy paperbacks the font doesn't bother me. I just went past pg. 100 and I'm seriously tripping out man!

Post by **StarRider** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 9:35 pm

Wait till you get to page 300.

It gets even better.

Maybe i should have sais i didn't bother reading the "what has gone before" part. That's what i skipped.

Post by **caamora** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:50 pm

I am on page 209 and I am so tripping out!!!!

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:14 pm

Go caam!!!

Post by **caamora** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:23 pm

Have you finished reading it yet?

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:03 am

Yup.

Tuesday morning, about 1 am.

Only three years to go until Fatal Revenant comes out!!!!!!!! Yeah, baby, yeah!!!!!

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:52 am

Only 3 years?

Better start the countdown now.....

Post by **Iryssa** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:35 pm

3 years? I'm not going to survive...

Post by **CovenantJr** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:56 pm

I'll have forgotten about it by the time it arrives...

Here's a scary thought: By the time Revenant arrives, I'll have been a Watch member for six years

Even scarier: That's as long again as I've already been here

Post by **Mouseglove** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:34 pm

Herein lies Mouseglove's all-too-recently-finished review of RotE:

Sunday night: Get book. Salivate. Drive home. Open book. Sniff. Sigh. Read.

Monday afternoon: Swear to savor the book, read slowly and in little bits. Excitement mounting. 50 pages in. Impatient. Grinning.

Monday night: Too tired to do anything, but reading in bed sounds good. Finish over half the book. Lots of scratching my head and swearing softly under my breath.

Tuesday morning: Read a bit more. (Bit = 3rd quarter of the book). Eat breakfast. Decide to read a bit more (same amount of bit).

Tuesday noon-ish: Finish book. Grin. Reality dawns. Shout. Begin cursing SRD (softly) for being such a cruel man as to leave me to wait HOWEVER long it will be until the second book comes out, all based on the last page!

Fabulous book. Cruel author. Will say something to him in March when I see him. Will tell Perry I think she turned out really well considering how cruel a person her old man is.

As I said to my wife, "It's not like I wasn't ALREADY going to read the next book. Sheesh. He's just mean!"

-Mouseglove

Post by **Infelice** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:16 am

*walks in and sits quietly down. Puts Gobal Priority Mail parcel on the table. Parcel measures 32cm x 24cm. Weighs less than 4 lbs

Carefully opens the package because she is always careful when opening things, except when she has prior knowledge that chocolate is involved. Reaches inside the package and pulls out a plastic protective bag containing.........

RUNES OF THE EARTH: THE LAST CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

IVE FINALLY GOT RUNES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*goes internally berserk* :letsparty:

*and faints*

Ty again Daniel my Fairy God-Lion

Post by **masrock** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:56 pm

I got Runes Yesterday in the UK, can only read a bit in lunch hours because I have a three month old (delightful) daughter.

First impression "God thats a hefty book!"

I managed to read the what has gone before prologue, I'm impressed by the explanation, must be 15 years since I last read the 2nd chronicles.

But the UK bookjacket is mostly black, kind of an abstract forest, not the painting I've seen on the US books, the uk book looks classy, but I'd like to have had the US version.

Masrock

Kevin's Watch

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Runes -no spoilers