Famous last words

Post by **Ryzel** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 8:04 pm

This is a fun thread. I will put in another ending and see if someone gets it:

We are riding now across the darkness on a road that looks like cheesecloth. Enemy citadel, conquered nation, trap, ancestral home ... We shall see. There is a faint flickering from battlements and balcony. We may even be in time for a funeral. I straighten my back and loosen my blade. We will be there before much longer.
Good-bye and hello, as always.

Post by **danlo** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 4:30 pm

That's an Amber book by Zelazny--which one, I'm not sure...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 5:52 pm

Courts of Chaos

Post by **danlo** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 6:00 pm

Someone as smart as u should ID self, join and contribute on a regular basis!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 6:06 pm

I already am, Danlo...I am just very sad over the situation with Lord Mhoram and not signed in right now...if I got the answers right on either thread, please go ahead and take my turn for me...

Post by **danlo** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 6:25 pm

I refuse duchess!!!

Post by **Ryzel** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 6:33 pm

It is the courts of chaos, but you knew that already.

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 8:57 pm

This one should be very easy...

Merrett Frey opened his mouth to plead, but the noose choked off his words. His feet left the ground, the rope cutting deep into the soft flesh beneath his chin. Up into the air he jerked, kicking and twisting, up and up and up.

Post by **danlo** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 1:31 am

If I hadn't just read The Hedge Knight in my strange busted up Legends paperback (without Dragonfly, whaaa...) I'd probably whine, "don't do that--I'm going nuts waiting for A Feast for Crows!!" (whaa...)

A Storm of Swords, of course!

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 1:41 am

You are absolutely right, one of the most spine tingling endings in all of fantasy...your turn.

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 3:04 pm

Good-bye and hello. Ah, I love that quote.

Post by **danlo** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 9:45 pm

Finally! Ok try this one (it's not totally ez

):

Her thick glossy hair spilled on her shoulders and hung down her back like a dark curtian. Her eyes were as deep as the stares of dead strangers in old photographs. But she was no stranger--she was something much less explicable. She knew him. And although he could not name her, he knew her too, in every cell of his being.
**"You are here," she said, and even the voice was like coming home. "At last you have come." She stood and spread her arms, her robes billowing like wings. As she smiled, her face suddenly seemed that of a young girl. "There is so much that we must talk about, my long-lost husband---so very much!"

Post by **danlo** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 12:49 pm

Clue #1: This is an American fantasy author.

Post by **Ylva Kresh** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:43 pm

Yeees....And clue #2 is?

Post by **danlo** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 6:06 pm

This is from the 2nd book in a series (it is a beautiful quote is it not?

)

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 8:44 pm

You got me stumped.

Post by **danlo** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:19 pm

I'll give 3 more clues--after that I'll give up

#3:
In his other, perhaps, better known series a key figure is Ser Camaris

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:18 pm

Tad Williams then? Pity, I've never read him.

Post by **duchess of malfi** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:59 pm

It must be Tad Williams, but from his series I haven't had time to read yet, called Otherland, but don't know which book...
Williams does have a wonderful way with words, as exemplified by his works which I have read -- Tailchaser's Song, and Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. Someday I hope to find the time to read Otherland and his new stand alone fantasy The War of the Flowers.

Post by **danlo** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 12:01 am

now you just need the title...

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch

Famous last words