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I am not going to be purchasing Fatal Revenant until the entire series is released. I read the first and second chronicles each back to back, and I really want to do the same for the third. Plus, I have plenty of books to get through anyway.
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But you are missing the unparalleled experience of wondering! We need wonder in our lives.Loremaster wrote:I am not going to be purchasing Fatal Revenant until the entire series is released.
Sidetrack with me a minute. Once I went to the Omni theatre and saw this movie about African wildlife. I liked the music, so I found out what it was, and I bought it. It was the soundtrack to this other movie, "The Power of One". (BTW, buy it.) I listened to that soundtrack for years and years. And then one day, I actually saw the movie The Power of One on cable. And you know what?! The music in that movie moved me beyond anything I could have ever conceived. Because I knew it, was familiar with it, it already had an emotioal resonance for me. This was translated for me to the scenes in the movie where the music played. It was awesome! It was incredible!
I went on to listen to all the soundtracks of the LOTR movies before I saw the movies. Uncomparable!
Now back to the topic. When I read FR, I cannot tell you how much more amazing that book was because I had been contemplating what might happen next for three years. It's beautiful. It's delicious. It's wonderful. I have had time to take everything in ROTE and incorporate it into myself. Everything in it came to have an emotional resonsance for me. (KW was part of that process.) Then, on reading FR, everything that happened that tied back to ROTE just caught me up and blew me away. (And this included wondering what everyone on KW would make of it.)
Seriously. You're missing out on one of life's rare opportunities if you withhold reading the final chronicles until it is all done.
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Nice post, Wayfriend! 
To be able to follow the Last Chronicles as it's being written is just so wild. After finishing WGW back in '84, I could never have imagined that two decades later I'd be reading one more Covenant saga. It's like having a second life - with the internet and KW thrown in as a bonus.
Now the world better not end on 2012 or I'll be annoyed beyond belief.
To be able to follow the Last Chronicles as it's being written is just so wild. After finishing WGW back in '84, I could never have imagined that two decades later I'd be reading one more Covenant saga. It's like having a second life - with the internet and KW thrown in as a bonus.
Now the world better not end on 2012 or I'll be annoyed beyond belief.
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I suppose we could delay it a year or twoMatrixman wrote:Nice post, Wayfriend!
To be able to follow the Last Chronicles as it's being written is just so wild. After finishing WGW back in '84, I could never have imagined that two decades later I'd be reading one more Covenant saga. It's like having a second life - with the internet and KW thrown in as a bonus.
Now the world better not end on 2012 or I'll be annoyed beyond belief.
We'll think about it.
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I survived the gradual release of the second chronicles.Wayfriend wrote:Seriously. You're missing out on one of life's rare opportunities if you withhold reading the final chronicles until it is all done.
Seriously, it doesn't bother me; SRD is not even my favourite author these days.
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Agreed. George RR Martin has me hooked, and I've decided Koontz deseved another go after recently finishing Watchers.
Good to see ya UV, er, LM.
Couldnt help it.
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Good to see ya UV, er, LM.
Couldnt help it.
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With my memory, rereading them a few years later is much like reading it for the first time.Loremaster wrote:I survived the gradual release of the second chronicles.Wayfriend wrote:Seriously. You're missing out on one of life's rare opportunities if you withhold reading the final chronicles until it is all done.
Seriously, it doesn't bother me; SRD is not even my favourite author these days.
That said, congrats Menolly. Now don't ruin the ending for me. I still have a few chapters to go. Like 4, maybe 5. Ugh.
I'm so ready to truly delve into the FR forum. I've peeked at things here and there, but the instant the ending is brought up, the page closes.
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I post in one topic in the FR forum, and I scan the responses before I really read them. I've got about 150 pages left.
I'll reserve final judgment 'till I'm done, but I'm not happy with it so far.
I'll reserve final judgment 'till I'm done, but I'm not happy with it so far.
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Are the slackers the ones who seem to be unhappy? I know I'm not hopping up and down about it either, though there certainly have been some bright spots here and there. Then again, the Wounded Land took me a long time to appreciate.Cail wrote:I post in one topic in the FR forum, and I scan the responses before I really read them. I've got about 150 pages left.
I'll reserve final judgment 'till I'm done, but I'm not happy with it so far.
Life is a waste of time
Time is a waste of life
So get wasted all of the time
And you'll have the time of your life
There was one spot that really shone for me. Seriously, it was like going back in time 28 years ago..I felt the same wonder that I did when I was initially reading the Chrons.
Then the moment passed, and I was bitterly disappointed again. Truly, I think SRD has given me back something broken, and I really hope he can redeem himself in the final two books.
But gah! The whole premise of the Last Chronicles seems so contrived.
Then the moment passed, and I was bitterly disappointed again. Truly, I think SRD has given me back something broken, and I really hope he can redeem himself in the final two books.
But gah! The whole premise of the Last Chronicles seems so contrived.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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SRD is Lord Foul?!?Cail wrote:There was one spot that really shone for me. Seriously, it was like going back in time 28 years ago..I felt the same wonder that I did when I was initially reading the Chrons.
Then the moment passed, and I was bitterly disappointed again. Truly, I think SRD has given me back something broken, and I really hope he can redeem himself in the final two books.
But gah! The whole premise of the Last Chronicles seems so contrived.
B&
