Kevin's Watch

For those that have read the book - (I have not yet)

IS AATE:

BETTER THAN/EQUAL TO/WORSE THAN

Fatal Revenant?

That's ALL I want to know!!! No spoilers please!!!!!

hehehehe...I can just guess dlb's answer!!!!

My sequence ... hmmmm ... Fatal - then Against - then Runes (tho it was nice seeing Linden get SHOT )

I think I like this one the best of the Last Chrons so far.

FR > ROTE > AATE

dlbpharmd wrote:FR > ROTE > AATE

Ah, crap. How disappointing.

I tried to reread Runes in prep for this book, and couldn't finish it again. I got as far as the climb up the hill and Anele's story-while-kresh-are-attacking, and honestly got bored during this "exciting" sequence. If AATE is worse than that, I'm officially depressed.

Chapter 1 was good.

Dear Wathers,

I think that this is at least as good as Runes and better than Fatal Revenant. Of course, take that with a grain of salt as I am not quite two chapters in yet.

Just 77 pages into the book, I'm likeing this one already! you can't judge one book from another its the series as a whole which must be judged..

Really liking it thus far. I think it has a quicker pace than the other books. However, that being said, I agree with inablackout where I can not seperate them. All the books are important, AATE wouldn't be nearly as awesome without the prep of FR, and it would all fall apart without RotE (which, incidently, I enjoyed as much as FR).

I finished it on the train home today. I'm very surprised that Donaldson isn't using the same characters as before, and is telling a story about some little kid living on another planet taking care of a flower and meeting with a fox and a snake, and so forth. It seems such a departure from his usual Covenant books, and I was surprised by the illustrations as well. But the guy in the shop insisted this was the new Covenant book, so...yeah. I really enjoyed it though.

LP>FR>RotE

The meeting with the fox almost melted my icy heart

Orlion wrote:The meeting with the fox almost melted my icy heart

In the movie version, I really hope a young Gene Wilder plays the fox. And gets a dance number.

wtf--?!
still haven't got mine ... (grrr. local stores didn't decide to carry it! Last time they actually got it in 3 days early! So had to order...)

Cagliostro wrote:

Orlion wrote:The meeting with the fox almost melted my icy heart

In the movie version, I really hope a young Gene Wilder plays the fox. And gets a dance number.

You guys are terrible....

I hated RotE. I tolerated FR. I love AATE, and if it hadn't taken me 20+ hours to read it, I'd start reading it again right now.

Can't make a decison until I have read the whole book, then reread and then reread.

The question may be is that how does it fit into the scheme of the Third Chronicles?

I have to conclude that the timeline for the book spans only a few days since Garbo the Magicial Munching Eating Machine is up and doing his thing.

AATE, then FR, then RotE as a distant third. I very much disliked RotE, but got around that mentally by telling myself that we're still following the rules of a trilogy here, and that Runes and Fatal Revenant are effectively the first book: laying out the foundations and getting everything set up for later.

About halfway through. Not as gripping as FR at the same point.

Not quite halfway through AATE; right now I'd rate it behind FR, but ahead of ROTE.

All the ROTE hate is sorta surprising. When I first read it, I thought it was really slow, and "drier" than other TC novels. However, with 6 years and 2-3 rereads under my belt, I like it MUCH better now. I'm able to read it on its own merits and ground, rather than expectations that it be like another one of the books.

Trying hard to stay out of the spoiler threads for AATE....

However, with 6 years and 2-3 rereads under my belt, I like it MUCH better now. I'm able to read it on its own merits and ground, rather than expectations that it be like another one of the books.

I agree. I think part of my initial dislike of ROTE (6 years ago) was:
1) Linden as a weak central character
2) Some of the inaccuracies (eg, Stave's assertion that ur-viles didn't make more of their own kind)
3) time travel
4) A lost Staff of Law

Now when I read ROTE, I enjoy it for the good things in it, and just gloss over the things that irritate me.