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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:23 am
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Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:42 am
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:01 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:33 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:55 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:20 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:45 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:05 pm
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Oh Lord, I could ramble on for DAYS about this woman. She's just such an amazing author, its just, she just, it so, well GAH!
I'm typing so amazingly fast to get all this said before my youth club meeting that it hurts!
I really love the two Fitz trilogies, and Liveships as well, though I'll be forever killing myself for never getting a chance to figure out who Amber was.
Actually, I started hating myself for it in the middle of Golden Fool. When Jek came and called the Fool Amber I was like "I bet Amber's in Liveships", 'cause I'd read the back of one of the Liveships books, and knew it was set south of the Six Duchies. So I immediately raced to the bookshop to check (being too distraught at my own stupidity to think of checking the interweb!) and started beating myself over the head with Mad Ship when I found the word Amber on the back of it.
The ending made me cry so much. It was just so perfect, but there were a few loose ends still, which annoyed me. But what annoyed me most was: If Fitz cared so much for the Fool was willing to give up his own life to save the Fool's, why was he perfectly content to just let the Fool leave, believing Fitz dead? Wouldn't he remember the torture the Fool went through the last time Fitz died? It just... doesn't make sense to me. And it leaves the door open for (yet another) sequel! ^_^ I don't see that happening though, sadly.
I adored the part in Liveships where Amber carved the Paragon. It made me smile to see him taking shape like that. 'Twould have been more fun had I not already been aware of just who it was she was carving though...
Tawny Man is probably my favourite of the three. I don't know why... It's kinda like Rocky Balboa compared to the rest of the movies. Y'know, an old man pottering around, trying to get back to his former, erm, whatever. 'Cept that I hated Rocky Balboa. Actually, I hated all the Rocky movies, but that beside that point. I just love it, 'specially all the Fools personas finally coming together.
My brothers reading Assassin's Quest at the moment, and he hates me, 'cause I just can't stop talking about it - having nobody else to rant to, nobody else having read the books - and I keep going on about stuff that he hasn't read yet, and basically he now thinks I should die. Which is scary. He's only thirteen and hes taller than me! I can still beat him in a fight though. I really need to stop going off on tangents like that...
As for the Soldier's Son trilogy, I've read the first two books, and liked them, though not as much as the rest of her books. I'm still waiting for the last book to come out in regular paperback before I buy it... I hate trade paperbacks! No joke though, I wouldn't worry about that if she wrote another Fitz book!
Oh, somebody mentioned a song that fits the relationship between Fitz and the Fool perfectly; I have another one - Leave Right Now by Will Young. I hated that song until it was on one day when I was still thinking about the books constantly in the aftermath of reading them for the first time.
And has anybody ever heard White Fool by Clannad? I don't like it especially, but I found this one day and the title made me listen to it. The chorus goes: "White fool, come to a new land/There's a dark moon on the sand/Then nothing was ever the same again/This land is in their hands/A thousand, years of tribe-land/Strong winds carry the pulse/Greed and lust, it stripped the earth bare/When the white fool came to a new land". There's also something like "The wheels of time keep on turning/It can't be helped" I think. That bits in Irish, so I could be wrong. Anyway, with a bit of twisting here and there, this fits perfectly with the Fools story. Weird, huh? It was released about six or seven years before the first Farseer book... I think the White Fool is actually supposed to be a symbol of the corruption of this land, the catalyst that caused it, if you will. But it could be taken to mean that he came to save this place from its destruction ^.^
Wow, this is a long post. I'm gonna stop now...
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 1:34 am
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I don't think I posted about this, but when I read the Soldier Son trilogy, I was so traumatized by the description of how the main character became fat and how he was treated that I literally lost like ten pounds after reading it. It wasn't really a conscious thing, entirely. I mean, I was really freaked out because of the other characters' reactions and reading all of it in first person because I have some appearance issues to start with, but I didn't all of a sudden start exercising more and eating nothing. It was just in hindsight, I realized that right after I'd finished the series, I started losing weight. rofl So next time I need to lose a few pounds, I guess I know what I'm doing.
I also read the Dragon keeper series, and I was quite surprised that it was a quartet rather than a trilogy--deviation! The ending of the second book seemed like it was pretty complete, honestly. They reached their destination. Not that I was disappointed, mind you. I like the series and wanted to see how the dragons and the kids settled in after they finally reached the city. I'm waiting for the third one to come out in paperback still. And I think the fourth is scheduled to come out sometime soon-ish? Within the next few months, I suppose.
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 8:48 pm
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