Kevin's Watch

Congrats Jay! *cheers*

You beat me by exactly one day. I'll be finished my third re-read of Runes tonight.

Did you enjoy it? Can you remember the beginning?

--A

[I've edited the title of this thread in order to compress the main forum page to normal size.

I realize that by doing so I've placed myself in mortal danger. High Lord Jay's wrath is about to descend upon me for presuming to edit a thread that he started.

May God have mercy on my soul.]

Congratulations and welcome to the madness, Jay!

dlbpharmd wrote:[I've edited the title of this thread in order to compress the main forum page to normal size.

I realize that by doing so I've placed myself in mortal danger. High Lord Jay's wrath is about to descend upon me for presuming to edit a thread that he started.

May God have mercy on my soul.]

You may be okay for a while. See, Jay would have to read it ...

Yes, thanks everyone. Just for the record, yes, I am very proud of the fact that it took me more than a year to read something that it took people on average a couple of weeks to read. Heh... I feel like the slow kid in class who has to be congratulated when he gets his pants on right way.

Romeo wrote:Bet you wish you had a second shot at the Revenant stack, eh?

YES! Heh.

Spring wrote:And this is from our admin?

Yes. Are you scared yet? Heh.

Murrin wrote:So, Jay - think you'll try for *two* years on the next one?

Har har har.

dlbpharmd wrote:Congrats, Jay - it only took you a year longer than the rest of us.

Har har har.

Matrixman wrote:Jay actually finished Runes? And it's still October?? Phone SRD! E-mail the New York Times! Contact CNN!

Har har har.

Avatar wrote:You beat me by exactly one day. I'll be finished my third re-read of Runes tonight.

Can you remember the beginning?

Har har har.

(And no, I can't remember the beginning anymore, heh.)

Wayfriend wrote:You may be okay for a while. See, Jay would have to read it ...

Har har har.

Ok, now that I have been mocked sufficiently, have you all gotten it out of your system? Heh. It's alright, I fully deserve to be made fun of. It's my fault for taking so long to read the book, and it's my fault for not simply just lying about it and claim that I finished it months ago, heh.

Oh, and I'm sorry for stretching the page. Heh. I thought that might be a problem. Thanks for fixing that. Sorry. Really, I don't mean to be a jerk on top of being a slow reader, heh.

There were definitely scenes in Runes that I enjoyed (Usually anything with the Haruchai and Esmer), but overall, the pacing of the book killed me. Too much "I have to save my son from Lord Foul!!!" for me.

And dear lord! How many times does Linden have to "take a moment to think". She thinks through the whole blasted book!

Also, I've never been so sick of reading a word as I was reading the words "compunction" and "puissance".

I'm just SO glad that the book ended with that last page. As sad as it is to say, I probably would have been disappointed with Runes if it were not for that last page. Until that point, I was just sitting there thinking "Oh great....... How many more books am I going to have to read about Linden trying to save her son......... Is he really going to drag this out for three more books???" But then, by introducing Jeremiah and Covenant at the end, it totally changed the outlook of the series. A complete twist. I mean, OK, I sort of expected Covenant to show up at the end, but I didn't expect to see Jeremiah. It leaves the series open to a lot of possibilities in the next book, so it's hard to see where SRD is going to go with it, which is pretty cool.

Also, I think the whole history of the Haruchai is pretty cool, and it's a lot of fun to see how they have evolved (or haven't evolved, heh) over the course of the entire series. The main thing that I want to see out of the Last Chronicles is some sort of "Ultimate Redemption" for the Haruchai. I'm curious to see what SRD does with them. Because looking over the whole series, there's this huge background story about the Haruchai and how they have seen themselves as failures time and time again. Bannor, Cail, ect. It'd be awesome to see the Haruchai (or perhaps just Stave the way the series is going) to do something truly great and redeem their race.

So yeah, thanks all, heh. I couldn't have finished it without all of your support. And yes, now I'm in the same boat as all of you, and I have to wait patiently for the next book (except for Romeo, heh).

I just hope I don't spend all of my time now reading all of the crazy topics in this forum, heh.

And who the HELL is the Mahdoubt??? -jay

P.S. I still would like to see a Covenant/Linden/Liand/Pahni/Stave/Mahdoubt/Joan/Lord Foul/Esmer love triangle. Heh.

The Mahdoubt appears on a couple of pages of Troubled Sanctuary (the third last chapter) and Find Me (the last chapter). She is something of a mystery. I would like to hear your view of her identity.

Congrats once again Jay.
So what the next book your going to read/attampt to read?

kevinswatch wrote:Ok, now that I have been mocked sufficiently, have you all gotten it out of your system?

... wait ...

Jay is so slow -
HOW SLOW IS HE???
He's so slow ... that while he was reading Runes, the money in my 401K doubled!

... there. I can go on now.

kevinswatch wrote: Also, I've never been so sick of reading a word as I was reading the words "compunction" and "puissance".

Oh, my, please don't forget "formication". It's not often I hear a word for the first time in my life and am sick to death of it ten minutes later - this may be the only time it's ever happened.

Yeah, I know who the Mahdoubt is, but I don't know who the Mahdoubt is. (Sorry, it's just a joke, heh.)

Oh yeah, that's right, it was "formication" and "puissance" that got on my nerves. "Compunction" is something else stuck in my subconcious, heh.

QWarmark wrote:So what the next book your going to read/attampt to read?

Since I hate myself, have low self-esteem, and because I like to put myself in a lot of pain and agony, the next book I read may quite possibly be the new Wheel of Time book, heh.

But since I don't even have the new Wheel of Time book yet, the next book will probably be Return Engagement by Turtledove, which is the first book in his Settling Accounts series, which itself is part of a larger series of alternate history books about an alternate world where the south won the Civil War. During the time I was reading Runes, I have fallen behind two books in that series, and I need to catch up, heh.-jay

kevinswatch wrote:...the next book I read may quite possibly be the new Wheel of Time book, heh.

I believe this is one of those moments when the people riot in the streets, tears their leader limb from limb, and hang his remains from a gibbert. Except for his head, which sits on a pike for the crows.

Hmmm, we need a vomiting icon.

It's a scary thought that Wheel of Time is likely to be completed many years before Last Chronicles. I think I'm going to finish Last Chronicles first, though. I stopped reading WoT after the fifth book and I had been reading it for free, courtesy of the local library. The only thing I'm planning to do about WoT once it's finished is to read the synopsis off the net, but I won't mind if I miss that.

bossk wrote:
Oh, my, please don't forget "formication". It's not often I hear a word for the first time in my life and am sick to death of it ten minutes later - this may be the only time it's ever happened.

You're supposed to not like the word Formication, thats why he uses the word formication over and over again, so that you feel the same way about the formication as the people who are experiencing the formication feel.

Interesting, drew. But is the dislike of the word the equivalent of feeling as if ants are crawling all over you? (Although, I did have to scratch every time I read it in Runes )

...I also read that chapter, sitting in a my back yard, near an ant hill, so my oppinion might be biased.

LMAO! drew, I would have moved to a different location!

Well, I was waiting for a Damned Ceasure to show up.

Although The Ceaser Salad I had for lunch was good, it hardley transported me though time, as I hoped it would have.

Et tu, drew? Et tu?

variol son wrote: I believe this is one of those moments when the people riot in the streets, tears their leader limb from limb, and hang his remains from a gibbert. Except for his head, which sits on a pike for the crows.

Hmmm, we need a vomiting icon.

Oh, sorry, thought you were talking about David Eddings being hung from a gibbet. Damn, I got the popcorn and a front row seat for nothing.

drew wrote:

bossk wrote:
Oh, my, please don't forget "formication". It's not often I hear a word for the first time in my life and am sick to death of it ten minutes later - this may be the only time it's ever happened.

You're supposed to not like the word Formication, thats why he uses the word formication over and over again, so that you feel the same way about the formication as the people who are experiencing the formication feel.

What a formicating experience. Wait, does that mean she felt like she was being struck by tumbling sheets of formica?

Damn you, Foul!