Singin Hobo
October 11th, 2007, 11:08 PM
Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
--Moiraine Damodred
Part of the Sci-fi/Fantasy GW Book Club (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=536568)
Just a little reminder: Please don't post spoilers about future installments. The entire series is currently being discussed in the Knife of Dreams thread. (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=534195)
This was a great book, one that brought a lot of change for pretty much every character. Rand (obviously) becoming the Car’a’carn… Perrin becoming lord of the Two Rivers and married to Faile, Mat gaining a whole new destiny and purpose in the two archways. Nynaeve and Elayne’s story seemed so minor next to everything else, but I suppose they had to be doing something… it just seems a bit pointless for that which they searched for to be found, then dropped to the bottom of the ocean :shrug: Oh well, though… I still love ‘em. And the show-down with Moghedien was pretty cool.
Rhuidean was spectacular… probably, from a shear creative standpoint, it’s my absolute favorite part of the series. It’s freaking brilliant how he connected the Aiel and the Tinkers. And of course the little scene that showed the flying machines and such in the last age was kinda funny.
Do you think the woman Min warned Perrin about in The Dragon Reborn is Berelain or Lanfear? Obviously the “most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen” has gotta be Lanfear, but it seems like Beralain is the bigger problem by far. :shrug: ah well… just a thought… it’s obviously Lanfear I guess.
Lord Luke being revealed as the Slayer was a loooooong time coming in this book. I’m curious who didn’t figure that out in the first eight seconds of their almost-simultaneous introductions. Nobody? Great. Not only that, but it just strikes me as a big who-gives-a-rats-ass moment. Luke was there and he wasn’t a likable character and he turns out to have a dual identity that we had all already figured out anyhow :shrug:
The rest of that whole situation was pretty badass, though. Except Faile, maybe… she’s seems like a pretty psychotic chick, but I guess Perrin is a big enough p*ssy that it’s his own fault for putting up with her. But Perrin getting out of the Whitecloak hands and destroying all the Trollocs is awesome. I do wish that he would have been in more of the fighting… I like it when the three boys fight and luck into
And the Daughter of the Nine Moons… fun-time mysteries for the whole family.
--Moiraine Damodred
Part of the Sci-fi/Fantasy GW Book Club (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=536568)
Just a little reminder: Please don't post spoilers about future installments. The entire series is currently being discussed in the Knife of Dreams thread. (http://forums.gamewinners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=534195)
This was a great book, one that brought a lot of change for pretty much every character. Rand (obviously) becoming the Car’a’carn… Perrin becoming lord of the Two Rivers and married to Faile, Mat gaining a whole new destiny and purpose in the two archways. Nynaeve and Elayne’s story seemed so minor next to everything else, but I suppose they had to be doing something… it just seems a bit pointless for that which they searched for to be found, then dropped to the bottom of the ocean :shrug: Oh well, though… I still love ‘em. And the show-down with Moghedien was pretty cool.
Rhuidean was spectacular… probably, from a shear creative standpoint, it’s my absolute favorite part of the series. It’s freaking brilliant how he connected the Aiel and the Tinkers. And of course the little scene that showed the flying machines and such in the last age was kinda funny.
Do you think the woman Min warned Perrin about in The Dragon Reborn is Berelain or Lanfear? Obviously the “most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen” has gotta be Lanfear, but it seems like Beralain is the bigger problem by far. :shrug: ah well… just a thought… it’s obviously Lanfear I guess.
Lord Luke being revealed as the Slayer was a loooooong time coming in this book. I’m curious who didn’t figure that out in the first eight seconds of their almost-simultaneous introductions. Nobody? Great. Not only that, but it just strikes me as a big who-gives-a-rats-ass moment. Luke was there and he wasn’t a likable character and he turns out to have a dual identity that we had all already figured out anyhow :shrug:
The rest of that whole situation was pretty badass, though. Except Faile, maybe… she’s seems like a pretty psychotic chick, but I guess Perrin is a big enough p*ssy that it’s his own fault for putting up with her. But Perrin getting out of the Whitecloak hands and destroying all the Trollocs is awesome. I do wish that he would have been in more of the fighting… I like it when the three boys fight and luck into
And the Daughter of the Nine Moons… fun-time mysteries for the whole family.