Favorite Chapters?
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Ohhhh, that's a good one too Jwaneeta. That's definately one you can't put down.
"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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Fist and Faith
- Magister Vitae
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"May Be Lost"
Seer and Oracle
GILDEN-FIRE
Which I had the joy and honor of Dissecting.
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Variol-son
The Spoiled Plains
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Lord Mhoram's Victory
The Search
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Coercri
Those Who Part
Seer and Oracle
GILDEN-FIRE
Which I had the joy and honor of Dissecting.
kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=934Variol-son
The Spoiled Plains
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Lord Mhoram's Victory
The Search
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Coercri
Those Who Part
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon
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Zarathustra
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Yes, Coercri was indeed very powerful. It's a moment that takes everything that has gone before to fully grasp its impact. I like the point mikojb made about it being a resolution of previously unresolved issues. I don't look at it as an afterthought, but instead as a masterstroke of writing. To take what you've done and raise the stakes, increase the emotional impact . . . it's just genius.
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In reading "Lord Mhoram's Victory", it hit me that the music from "The Empire Strikes Back" - "Rebels at Bay" was a perfect mesh with the scene. The cues for the desperate retreat to Revelstone, Mhoram's confrontation, the krill and so on are perfect.
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"These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own." G.K. Chesterton
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The second favorite for me- "Lord Mhoram's Victory; he goes on and gives it his all no matter WHAT it looks like. This WOULD have been my FAVORITE chapter as Mhoram shows himself to be the best chacter in the book( slightly, slightly-mabey not even- edging out Foamfollower) but I read the First Chronicles fairly soon after they came out and there was no Second (or even a thought there would be) for quite a while and the anticipation and DESIRE for a climax(conclusion/resolution) that SRD had managed to build up(in me at least) ws SO STRONG and answered so wonderfully and effectively in Covenant's final battle with Foul I was COMPLETLY blown away! When he first entered Foul's thronehall I thought, "OH WOW! HERE IT COMES!!'' And the exchange between them nearly did me in with anticipation but when he hit his ring on the Illearth Stone- (he can't see at this point), ''Like a dead man coming(forcing?) his way out a cocoon, he forced himself to his feet,"(He could feel Foul crashing towards/on top of him),''he took three tottering steps foward and fell, fists first, on the Illearth Stone" I was like, ''HUUUUUUUUUH!!!!!!" and the white EXPLOSION when contact was made and Covenant ''waking'' up on the floor of Foul's throneroom with a white gail/tornado gyrating up from his ring! I thought,'' AT LAST! AT LAST! THE RING WORKS! THE MOST POWERFUL THING IN THE LAND! NO MORE IMPOTENCE! NO MORE INEFFECTIVENESS! NO MORE HELPNESSNESS AND NOT BEING ABLE TO ANYTHING ABOUT /AGAINST ALL THE EVIL LORD FOUL DID/WAS DOING AND AFTER BEING SO FED UP WITH HIM! - and not just Covenant-me too. The battle they then fought was the highlight of my epic fantasy reading career- it has yet to be topped. TDO