David's comments
(member since Apr 29, 2009)
David's comments from the Fantasy Book Club group.
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Will this have better artwork than the original encyclopedia?
Writing Perrin chapters has to be supper easy. The character is very one dimensional.
It looks to me like Sanderson is writing about 3 books a year of his own as well as the Jordan series.
Am I the only one who thinks there will be a rather painful and long gypsy scene in thsi movie?
yes, there is a wizard of some sort and some magic rocks that drink blood.
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. I love Sanderson and haven't had a chance to read this yet.
What the heck were the Nazgul riding? I'm only half way through with it, and I didn't see it specified anywhere. I apparently made the wrong conclusion that it was dragons.
Cody wrote: "However, Gandalf doesn't have that magic to control over the eagle yet. He was just regular wizard who have lot of experience than being in White Robe himself. After he had fallen with the Shadow monster, he was learning a stronger & better skills to call for eagle in the end of the movie. Or else thing will not be connecting and might loose the interest. It's the masterpiece anyway. I love the movie. All timer favorite. :)
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Well, I have to respond. THat may be the way it seems in the movie, but it is a totally wrong description of events based on the book. The eagle is not something he calls or controls, but is rather a friend of Gandalf's, a friend I believe he made in the Hobbit (or perhaps before). In neither of the movie does he learn "stronger and better skills" after falling with the monster. He dies in both. When he comes back to life he is given more powers, presumably by the various gods that exist in their world.
In the movie the eagle would have had a hard time simply disposing of the ring by dropping it into the lava, as one had to enter the volcano through a tunnel. And Sauron undoubtable would have been able to see the Eagle coming and had it killed by one of his dragons, anyway.
I read it, thought it was good but not great. The flashbacks were too annoying and I didn't really care if the heroes won. But it was (mostly) well written, not boring drivel.
I read it.
I liked the ending, but thought the middle of the book dragged. It seemed pretty obvious that the characters were doing stuff that wasn't going to help them much (similar to the second book). I thought the first book in the series was the only one which had a middle that didn't slump. The ending of both would have been better if the middle had been tighter.
I thought you added the last couple of words to the sentence and it was your joke. Oops!
lol
Thanks for the warning about this book! Nothing I hate worse than sentences about weather to start a book. And to top it off, some purple prose!
Thanks for the literature map link. Very fun.
The best part of the Sword of Shannara is the ending. There's lots of excitement (and overblown descriptions) before that, but the ending really clinches it as a classic, I think. Getting to the end of the book is a bit of a monumental task, though. ;)
Nice. Kind of a doctor Seuss (or Tolkien?) style.
I'm at page 400 and starting to get into it. But there are still parts I don't like. I hate jumping from character to character every chapter. Some (most) of the characters I don't care that much about. And to me the narration itself is a bit dry.
Near as I can tell, the only thing that happens happens on the last page. The rest of it felt, to me, like spinning wheels. We visit a lot of characters but they don't advance their plot in any appreciable way.
It's just book 10 that made me quite angry.
