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Re-reading Runes of the Earth.
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Got a hardback book with four of Philip K. Dick's later novels: A Maze of Death (currently reading), VALIS (read in the past already), The Divine Invasion, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.
Also--you've got eyes of iron if you can go through Runes again, aliantha. I can't stomach the long (and to me) quite uneventful string of table scraps that lead to Revelstone (LFB took less time to get there and did it far more memorably, but that's best left for the TCTC forum maybe).
Also--you've got eyes of iron if you can go through Runes again, aliantha. I can't stomach the long (and to me) quite uneventful string of table scraps that lead to Revelstone (LFB took less time to get there and did it far more memorably, but that's best left for the TCTC forum maybe).
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LF -- I'm rereading it partly to see whether it's as bad as everybody remembers it being....
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It wasn't that it was bad. I just think it is shadowed by the elephantine standards created in the First Chrons, and to a slightly lesser extent the 2nd (lesser because I think the First Chrons' focus on a Hitler-like force of evil was just more striking, even though I think the Sunbane's insidious, more subtle approach to evil was well done and the only way SRD could continue the series in an innovative manner. I can't say "Kevin's Dirt" does much for me. Time travel, sure).
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When I read Runes for the first time, I didn't know ahead of timeLord Foul wrote:It wasn't that it was bad. I just think it is shadowed by the elephantine standards created in the First Chrons, and to a slightly lesser extent the 2nd (lesser because I think the First Chrons' focus on a Hitler-like force of evil was just more striking, even though I think the Sunbane's insidious, more subtle approach to evil was well done and the only way SRD could continue the series in an innovative manner. I can't say "Kevin's Dirt" does much for me. Time travel, sure).
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Yeah, that's the danger of the Watch, I think. We'd heard enough about SRD's readings of chapters from Runes before publication that we were maybe kinda jaded by the time it came out...
Altho I agree, LF, that Runes is basically one big setup for the rest of the series. My principal objection, as I recall, was Wondering if I'll feel the same way this time...
Altho I agree, LF, that Runes is basically one big setup for the rest of the series. My principal objection, as I recall, was
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I doubt it'll change. Some books are written in the spirit of tedium, and that spirit will never go away. 1st Chrons reads fresh and full of ideas to me, and I think that's how SRD must've felt when he wrote it. Runes just seemed a bit lost, and I think a book should be able to stand on its own, rather than being a servant/footman to the books that follow it. If I'm reading mere prologue for several hundred pages, then I feel I've been jipped. LFB, TIW, though not the end of the First Chrons, were their own little mini-adventures with their own satisfying culminations (I'd venture the emotional closing of TIW marked me as much or more than TPTP).
If you remember it, please let us (me) know how good/bad they are. The first and only PKD novel I've read so far is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and it left me cold.Lord Foul wrote:Got a hardback book with four of Philip K. Dick's later novels: A Maze of Death (currently reading), VALIS (read in the past already), The Divine Invasion, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.
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That's because your soul is cold (well; to be fair, you either like his tripped-out style or you don't; if you want less trippy and more character-focused, read his The Man in the High Castle). But yes sir--if his books were a food, it'd be chocolate sprinkled in awesome sauce that I just couldn't stop eating. Om nom nom.matrixman wrote:If you remember it, please let us (me) know how good/bad they are. The first and only PKD novel I've read so far is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and it left me cold.Lord Foul wrote:Got a hardback book with four of Philip K. Dick's later novels: A Maze of Death (currently reading), VALIS (read in the past already), The Divine Invasion, and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.
Dick's style + Le Guin's style are my favorite. If only they'd combined powers and written a fantasy trilogy of the First Chronicle's magnitude! Then I would die happily (and take as many people with me, of course!).
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