Kevin's Watch

I just wanted to be the one who started it

I've all ready read the first couple of pages, and I am echoing loudly to the annoyance of my roommate, Oh, Linden, what have you done?!?!

And always remember, this is thanks to SRD, his editors, and the best webmaster ever, Romeo, thanks guys!

Thanks, but I can't take any credit for The Man's brilliance.

This chapter is one of my all-time favorites.

Romeo wrote: This chapter is one of my all-time favorites.

Just finished my first reading of it, and I'm going to have to agree with you... so much f***ing info! And.... it's from TC's POV, people!!!!!! ARGH!!!

Orlion wrote: And.... it's from TC's POV, people!!!!!! ARGH!!!

OK...
since I have decided to not read the first chapter until I get a hold of the book, like I did with Runes and FR before, I reckon it is time for me to stop visiting this AATE forum until I do read the book.

It's been fun, people!
See you in here sometime after October.

Menolly wrote:

Orlion wrote: And.... it's from TC's POV, people!!!!!! ARGH!!!

OK...
since I have decided to not read the first chapter until I get a hold of the book, like I did with Runes and FR before, I reckon it is time for me to stop visiting this AATE forum until I do read the book.

It's been fun, people!
See you in here sometime after October.

It's probably best, as far as spoilers are concerned....(sorry about that by the way .... but I guess you won't see that apology until October... ) See ya on the otherside!

A nice appetizer, indeed !!! ...dances in joy (well, as best as a middle-aged blue-collar white guy can dance, which ISN'T very well)

OMG I feel like I've come home!!!

The world just stopped for me when I saw Romeo's announcement. Romeo: the REAL Worm of the World's End. (Shhhh! You didn't hear it from me!)

Is SRD in the groove or what? Every paragraph, every sentence had my mind spinning.

Seeing things from Covenant's fractured POV, his half-coherent visions or memories of events from the the ancient past - and I mean ancient - is just riveting stuff.

And Linden. Ah, Chosen, what further cost will you/can you bear?

I can finally talk about (some) things! Yay!!!

THREE years ago, at the Elohimfest breakfast. Everyone was trying to figure out questions to ask during the interview. iQuestor suggested, "who built Foul's Creche?" Which was almost tossed out. But I insisted that he ask that question. It wasn't too long before that when I asked Steve that question myself becuase of the reference in Chapter 1. I always thought that it was too perfect for Foul to create - that it was probably one of the works of the Viles or Demondim (because of the description in Fatal Revenant - I think when Esmer was monologing at Glimmermere *grin*). But Steve's answer was so very unexpected - and yet it fit more perfectly than any other explanation I could have come up with myself. (see the video interviews on the official site for June 2007)

There's another comment from iQuestor ... and I can't comment on it until October. Argh!!!!!! Must. Keep. Big. Mouth. Shut.

But yes - this chapter is really up there among my favorites. If not "the" favorite. And it's got heavy competition - like Lord Mhoram's Victory. Nothing really "happens" in the chapter, but the writing is spot on. And the description of Covenant being pushed back into a mortal body is spectacular. Plus ... Covenant's POV! WOW! What is it now - 27 years? White Gold Wielder came out in early-ish 1983? (my senior year in high school - just after I started reading the series)

Woooo! Happy, dancing bananas for everyone!!!!

awesome

matrixman wrote:The world just stopped for me when I saw Romeo's announcement. Romeo: the REAL Worm of the World's End. (Shhhh! You didn't hear it from me!)..

A real worm can be drowned in real tequila!!

What does

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"felled"

mean?!

Like when you

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"fell a tree."

In that case ... it ..

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DIES!!!

Hooooooooooooboy....ready for some more now.

I have a feeling before the final book comes out, I'll need to reread the whole thing. Page 1 of Lord Foul's Bane to the end of the next book to prepare. Hopefully I won't burn myself out.

Stephen R Donaldson wrote:His compelled transubstantiation left him frangible.

Someone confiscate this guy's thesaurus.

"profound as orogeny"

Orogency was my first run to dictionary.com!!

Good scrabble word! Have to remember it!

Cagliostro wrote:Hooooooooooooboy....ready for some more now.

I have a feeling before the final book comes out, I'll need to reread the whole thing. Page 1 of Lord Foul's Bane to the end of the next book to prepare. Hopefully I won't burn myself out.

my exact thought after I read the first chapter of AATE!!!

Starting tonight.

Earthy

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The Worm is not the size of the Earth. Just as big as a range of hills.

Interesting.
That makes fighting it more within a human's scope.
I hope I'm on record as saying so because I always thought that was the size of the thing.
Hopefully, and I've said this before too,

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the One Tree will be revealed to be much like an antler on the Worm's head and not a tree at all

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When Linden slapped Covenant the first time, I cursed out loud....and all my co-workers looked at me and one of them asked, "Who's a fuckin' bitch?"

But, I'm going on record now by saying that if Covenant's mind is "broken" as the trailer says and the chapter leads us to believe, I'm going to be EXTREMELY pissed off!

romeo, who did the art for the trailer?