Kevin's Watch

'K, so I'm re-reading TCTC, and I found there is a lot of minute details I missed the first time. And, like in other books, there is the feeling that you know what is too happen, . So, I was wondering, did any of you guys find any little gems that you missed the first time?

for myself that was definitely true, Spring! every single time i've read them! and that's been many times now since LFB came out!!

the biggest difference i found when i read them again was how different the land LOOKED in my mind compared to the first time. i think i just took more detail in on the second and third readings.

Yes, it was the same for me... it makes sense, since when you re-read the book you're not paying full attention to the story, because you know how it's going to be, and you can drink in all the little details you skipped during your first reading, because you were too interested in finding out how things would go for the characters

It took me untill the third or fourth time aorund to realize that Revelstone had a bunch of balconies and decrotive works along the outside. I just pictured it as blank rock with window slits. Sor of primitive feeling, like it was raw heartstone, so even though i read the add-ons i just block them from my mind.

I like it when I forget something; when I come across it during a reread is exhilerating.

EX: Trell jumping Cov and then tearing up the floor in TIW--forgot about that between read 1 and read 2--couldn't stop smiling when I read it.

The language too...now that you know the stroy, you can concentrate on Mr Donaldsons use of language even more.

Balon wrote:It took me untill the third or fourth time aorund to realize that Revelstone had a bunch of balconies and decrotive works along the outside. I just pictured it as blank rock with window slits. Sor of primitive feeling, like it was raw heartstone, so even though i read the add-ons i just block them from my mind.

Yea, so did I. I still thought that when TC went out onto his balcony.

I'm a great fan of rereading. Don't know how many times I've read the chrons, and still there is always something you forget, or read wrong, or just missed out on.

I agree with Xar, after the first time, you're not dying to find out what happens, so you can concentrate on the details.

--A

It's quite weird but there are certain parts of each book that I enjoyed more than others, so when re-reading I sometimes rush through a certain passage so I can get through to the part I liked more, even though I know what is going to happen!

It's quite weird but there are certain parts of each book that I enjoyed more than others, so when re-reading I sometimes rush through a certain passage so I can get through to the part I liked more, even though I know what is going to happen!

This is true for me too.

It has been years since I re-read the chrons, and I just dug them out of their grave at the bottom of our storage room - defying the Law of Death perhaps - and am wondering if I can face the thousands of malevolence-filled pages again.

Like when...

turiya and the Unfettered One fought back and forth, both grasping the High Wood. Then the Raver howled triumphantly. Bolts of sick red-green power shot up through the Unfettered One's arms and shattered his chest. When Triock plunged into darkness, the Raver had already started to dismember his victim. He was laughing all the while.

One of my favorite scenes.

As I wander through these threads, I am struck by how much I have forgotten, and therefore how much there is to re-discover about the Land. There is no doubt as to my fate.

and a little voice said..."Be true..."

I just finished my re-read of the first chronicles. I found the same thing; lots of stuff I'd missed the first time round in my anxiety to find out what would happen next. And lots of my mental imagery of the scenery was dramatically re-moulded, all over the place. I'd skipped over so many details.

And I take back everything negative I ever said about TPTP, it's now by far my favourite of the whole lot.

When ever I read any book, the first reading is always emotionally driven. I don't notice the, shall we say, "fine detail". When I go back and reread (especially SRD) I start to notice the detail. I have to say that I believe rereading SRD is a MUST. The more I reread his works, the more "astonished" I become by his brilliance.

And I've been like you Somberlain (although my experience was with "Runes"): when I read it the first time there were things that I absolutely hated about that book. I talked to pepole about it and said something along the lines of "well, that was dissapointing". But on second some of the things I hated I ended up loving! When I could look at the fine detail I actually understood them more than I did the first time.

By the way Xar, what an absolutely wonderful way of putting it:

you can drink in all the little details

Seareach wrote:When ever I read any book, the first reading is always emotionally driven. I don't notice the, shall we say, "fine detail". When I go back and reread (especially SRD) I start to notice the detail. I have to say that I believe rereading SRD is a MUST. The more I reread his works, the more "astonished" I become by his brilliance.

I have to agree.

and I'm going: you're only on your second reading?

Wayfriend wrote:and I'm going: you're only on your second reading?

Its SO easy to miss the details when your wrapped in the excitement of finally having "Time" to read. Sorry for the pun. It was necessary

I've re-read the series 5 times. The first reread was to get it in order (started with second chronicles first). What I like is how little sentences like "You are the white gold." become collossal by the end of the book, but start out small an enigmatic.

Coveneant's meeting with the Waynhim cannot be understood after a single reading. You have to read wounded land like three time to know what the wierd is.

Vain becomes more and more fascinating with each read and I've tended to find more and more depth in the characters.

I can not tell you how many times I have read TCTC?It is at the point where I do not read them as a whole,or in order anymore.I get a hankering to read a specific book,or even a specific segment of a book and do so.

Firstmark wrote:What I like is how little sentences like "You are the white gold." become collossal by the end of the book, but start out small an enigmatic.

Dead on.

I cannot really answer this directly- what I can say is, as a really young man, I read it for the first time with a lot a lot of passion, and literally let things in the book affect me for days after reading them, to the point of feeling naseous afterwards (the rape of Lena in the first book and her subsequent love for Covenant in the second) just totally blew me off my moral, ethical, realistic anchor (for lack of a better term). Now as someone who is much older, I am able to temper my feelings (we grow cynical and jaded to certain stimuli) and am able to focus on the minutiae. Nothing will ever beat my initial feelings towards this series, but the depth of the story is much more complex each time I read it (as I become more complex as a person).