Status Updates From The Broken Sword

Struggling with LOTR style narrative. Part Viking saga, part Grimms Fairy Tales, there is a remoteness in the narrator that leaves me feeling inconsequential. I probably won't finish this book. I think I prefer more a character driven slant on fantasy rather than the epic sweeping drama that uses its characters as foils to illustrate how a 'place' came to be.

I'm really enjoying this story so far.

I was supposed to finish this by the 30th. Way behind on my reading.

I've often heard what a good book this was but never found the time to give it a try. At this point in the story, I'm realizing that was a bad mistake on my part, because this classic fantasy is getting better and better as it goes along.

Chapter 22 of 28. Feeling a little... meh. The voices are dope.

About half way through the audiobook. On chapter 17. Incest. incest everywhere.

The narrator is EPIC. I got severe chills when I heard him change his voice to fit the Troll and the witch. This book should have your full attention at all times. Just got to Valguard's realization of his birth. SHIT IS DOPE I LOVE THIS A LOT RIGHT NOW LIKE AHHHHH

Chapter 22

Chapter 15

Chapter 13

Chapter 10

Chapter 7

Chapter 5

Chapter 3

Awesome, though I miss the elves!

Awesome, though I miss the elves!

Oh boy, oh boy! This is how Fantasy should be written!

This book is so bad I can't even...

I'm liking it, but I'm not impressed...

Enganchado me hallo

Tiene un regusto nórdico realmente épico.

This is all very Greek tragedy, and I don't mean only the accidental incest.

Ich mag dass es sich hier um Fantasy nicht inspiriert von Tolkien, sondern inspiriert von dem was Tolkien inspiriert hat, handelt, aber ohne das "Christentum = Beste Religion" fände ich es noch besser. Ich meine klar, es passt, zu der Handlungszeit griff halt die Christianisierung um sich. Aber ich will's nicht unbedingt in Fantasy lesen, ist ja kein Historienroman. So Dinge Loki wie = Teufel regen mich halt auf.

This was written in 1954?!

The spanish edition has 375 for this reason theper centage is minus, that in the english book.

And this is why it is very important in sagas to know who your parents are!

Quite unlike most modern mainstream fantasy, which is nice.

Oh wow, I've devoured these pages. In this part the rhythm is more fast.

Great book!

Going to be reading this very very slowly on my phone. But already I can see that SAGA is the word I might be mentioning. And I mean saga in its old usage as in the Icelandic Sagas... or is it Greenland? Anyways, that is the form we've started out in - recognize the language and the structure.