aneonfoxtribute Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 On Chapter 31 of Proven Guilty. Spoiler It is taking Harry way too long to piece together that Molly is the summoner. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aneonfoxtribute Posted August 27, 2020 Report Share Posted August 27, 2020 Finished Proven Guilty. Yeah that was the best one so far. No contest. Not even Dead Beat was that good if you ask me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iarwainiel I Posted August 27, 2020 Report Share Posted August 27, 2020 I'm re-reading the Hunger Games trilogy; also been wearing my Mockingjay pin; still need to get some gold eyeliner to wear. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spren of Kindness Posted August 27, 2020 Report Share Posted August 27, 2020 I finished the Spirit Thief, which actually got recommended to me by someone on the Shard, I don't remember who. It was really good! If anyone else has read it, what did you think? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkum Posted August 30, 2020 Report Share Posted August 30, 2020 after about a 6 week wait, my hold on Peace Talks came through, the timing was pretty good, because I had just finished off Lord of Chaos and hadn't started Crown of Swords yet. anyway, naturally I started and finished Peace Talks today, and am now getting ready to pick up Crown of Swords 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearer of all agonies Posted September 1, 2020 Report Share Posted September 1, 2020 Um. . . I am reading this guy named Brandon Sanderson, do you know of him? I don’t think you do, he is a very small time author and doesn’t have any fan blogs or anything. I love his Stormlight archive series, you may not have heard of that either. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aneonfoxtribute Posted September 2, 2020 Report Share Posted September 2, 2020 On chapter 27 of Shadow Rising. Spoiler Please tell me Faile gets better. She is being absolutely ridiculous right now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkum Posted September 2, 2020 Report Share Posted September 2, 2020 6 minutes ago, aneonfoxtribute said: On chapter 27 of Shadow Rising. Hide contents Please tell me Faile gets better. She is being absolutely ridiculous right now. honestly - no. She has her occasional moment, but for the most part, she's just as bad the whole series through. Heck, I'm not even sure you're seeing her at her worst. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aneonfoxtribute Posted September 2, 2020 Report Share Posted September 2, 2020 (edited) Oh joy. If she gets even worse thats not gonna be enjoyable. On the bright side, though, it means that I sympathize more with Perrin for having to put up with her. Edited September 2, 2020 by aneonfoxtribute 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eluvianii Posted September 2, 2020 Report Share Posted September 2, 2020 Wait, people dislike her? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aneonfoxtribute Posted September 2, 2020 Report Share Posted September 2, 2020 She was fine in the last book. Its in Shadow Rising that she's started being exceptionally annoying. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eluvianii Posted September 2, 2020 Report Share Posted September 2, 2020 Huh, interesting. I honestly find her to be a perfect opposite for Perrin. They just fit so well. I really like the parallels between the two in Shadow Rising. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkum Posted September 2, 2020 Report Share Posted September 2, 2020 I find her obnoxious. there are times when she's fine, but she has some MAJOR issues. Maybe she mellows out a bit by the end of the series, It's been a while since i read the series and I'm not there yet in my reread, but so far up to book 7 shes still just as annoying. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briar King Posted September 2, 2020 Report Share Posted September 2, 2020 Faile sucks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aneonfoxtribute Posted September 2, 2020 Report Share Posted September 2, 2020 7 hours ago, Eluvianii said: Huh, interesting. I honestly find her to be a perfect opposite for Perrin. They just fit so well. I really like the parallels between the two in Shadow Rising. That would be fine if not for her conflict with Perrin halfway through the book. Up to that point she was fine, after that she was just unlikable. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briar King Posted September 3, 2020 Report Share Posted September 3, 2020 Meh I ain’t very fond of Perrin either 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aneonfoxtribute Posted September 3, 2020 Report Share Posted September 3, 2020 I have been exceptionally fond of Perrin from the outset and that isnt changing anytime soon, especially with her being how she is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elegy Posted September 4, 2020 Report Share Posted September 4, 2020 Finished a bunch of books recently: Stephen King - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: Great book, very minimalistic in terms of story, but extraordinarily atmospheric. Not as uneven as other works by Stephen King! Walter Moers - A Wild Ride Through the Night: It's been ages. Just as imaginative as I remembered, and pretty funny at that. A lot of allusions that went over my head last time I read it. Terry Pratchett - Going Postal: Another imaginative book. Took me a while to really get into it (and the start felt slow), but once it did it was a lot of fun. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aneonfoxtribute Posted September 4, 2020 Report Share Posted September 4, 2020 Jordan is really good at writing contemptible pieces of human garbage. Not often do I feel such contemptuous hatred for characters like I do from Ordeith or the Seanchan. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkum Posted September 5, 2020 Report Share Posted September 5, 2020 3 hours ago, aneonfoxtribute said: Jordan is really good at writing contemptible pieces of human garbage. Not often do I feel such contemptuous hatred for characters like I do from Ordeith or the Seanchan. the whitecloaks fall into that category too. and to a lesser extent a lot of the nobility, with a handful of exceptions 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aneonfoxtribute Posted September 5, 2020 Report Share Posted September 5, 2020 The Whitecloaks aren't as contemptible I feel as the Seanchan. I don't like them, they're crazy and way too gung ho about accusing people of being Darkfriends for making one simple mistake, but I actually like the POV characters (other than Byar). The Bornhald's both aren't, like, the complete worst. They're at least somewhat reasonable, what with their dislike of Questioners and their methods among other things. And at least so far they don't seem too eager to jump the gun and accuse people. That might change, but most of the things they do have at least some reason for it at the moment, and they haven't killed anyone yet just because they think they're connected to someone they think is a Darkfriend. Compared to the Seanchan where every second they're on screen, I'm just hoping someone shows up out of nowhere and destroys, like, all of them. As for nobility, there has been almost no serious presence of any other than Morgase and her children, all of which seem pretty cool at the moment. There are the people at Tear but they're not really major yet. I don't like any of them, mind, but they're not completely contemptible yet, and they're easily cowed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkum Posted September 5, 2020 Report Share Posted September 5, 2020 the Seanchan are almost certainly the worst, especially their nobility and the sul'dams; the handful of commoners we meet outside of that group are generally more tolerable. from the whitecloaks, Geofram wasn't too, too bad, but he's definitely the exception, not the rule; most of them are bullies, at best. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aneonfoxtribute Posted September 5, 2020 Report Share Posted September 5, 2020 The Seanchan are almost as bad as One Piece's Celestial Dragon's for me. Like, they'll have to do some REALLY bad stuff for them to top the Celestial Dragons, since those are the group that I despise the most out of basically anything, but man the Seanchan will definitely be close behind. Most of the Whitecloaks are terrible but I think that part of the reason I don't see them as as bad is because out of all of the named important ones that I know of and can remember, Byar is the only one who I really hate, and he is essentially just a subject. I don't really hate the three leaders I know yet. It takes the hatred out of it when most of the people are nameless mooks, and the named ones aren't the absolute worst thing in existence. Compare that to the Seanchan, who we have way more named characters and there is not a single one so far that isn't absolutely terrible, now THAT is a recipe for some disaster. Another thing might be that I don't really recall seeing the Whitecloaks do too much. Like, sure, they're generally unpleasant and assume that basically everybody against them is a Darkfriend, but as far as I can recall we haven't really seen them do much more than occupy places. We don't see the Questioners go about their work, or see them razing a village of supposed Darkfriends to the ground, while with the Seanchan we see what they do as it happens, we see through the perspective of people victimized by them, and we see the aftermath. The only times we see the Whitecloaks actually do something we know are wrong from my recollection is just when they don't have any way of knowing otherwise. Gonna go into some spoilers up to halfway through Shadow Rising. Spoiler Them going after Perrin from our perspective is bad, but he did kind of kill some Whitecloaks, regardless of being self defense. Them capturing Mat's family and the Luhhans is bad, but they want information on the whereabouts of Mat and Perrin, who they think are Darkfriends (which is reasonable because they already think Perrin is one, and they got Ordeith saying that all three of them are Darkfriends, and given that they know that all three of them were at Falme when Geofram died, it's a fine assumption and as of where I am, Dain is doing his best so that they're not given to the Questioners or Ordeith). They're definitely not good but out of all the antagonists so far they're the least terrible from my perspective atm Man I need to learn when to stop typing lmao 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eluvianii Posted September 5, 2020 Report Share Posted September 5, 2020 When I see villain characters I usually just think "Oh, how cool, I would hate this person in real life but here in fiction they're cool" but WoT defies that. I think I dislike the Whitecloaks more than the Seanchan. They're not as bad maybe, but every storming assumption they make makes me want to strangle someone. And their job is basically to make assumptions. Like not only their ability to turn literally anyone into a Darkfriend, but that firm belief that they're the lone heroes saving the day, the last ray of hope left for humanity, that everything they do is right and the mere thought that it may not be true is enough to make you a Darkfriend. That really gets on my nerves. On a side note, there's a single Seanchan character that I like. The last book I read being precisely Shadow Rising. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aneonfoxtribute Posted September 5, 2020 Report Share Posted September 5, 2020 I don't really recall a time so far where they called someone a Darkfriend without reason. Granted those reasons tend to be bad, like "they did something to insult the Whitecloaks" or just saying someone is guilty by association if they know someone they've accused, but it's still a reason. Ironically, the assumptions that make me the most mad are the ones about the Aes Sedai, the assumptions that everyone agrees with. The Aes Sedai assumptions and accusations really do bug me because I don't feel that a lot of them have much basis other than Aes Sedai using Power, which is some pretty bad basis. They don't make me inherently angry yet unlike the Seanchan. Every time the Seanchan are brought up I get angry, which I don't really get with the Whitecloaks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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