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2/3 of the way through the story would be my reminder.
Personally I loved the last book, my favourite of the series so far.
A decade of real life waiting and in the last 30 pages the author pissed the whole lot up the wall its just a generic "LOL bad guys win and all the good guys die LOLOL"
Im being very black and white about this but and stripping all the philosophy out to get to the root of the story, the whole exercise was pointless.
Nothing was resolved. Its just an unsatisfying, cliche resumption of the status quo.
7 book and 10 years can be boiled down to two words - dont matter
A beautifully complex world collapsing into a pile of "K Nope"
What am i missing here?
My kindle purchase of TUC has been pushed back to July 25th. Fuck this shit.
Get it from uk amazon, i can give out some addresses if you guys need them, then change it back. I did the same when UK getting it later. but with canadian amazon
I imagine Kellhus and his ProbTrance, plus Imperial planners, came up with the minimum amount of sorcerers / warriors needed to take down Golg. and the Consult.I'm not so sure about that. Golgotterath and its resources are pretty unknown. I think they were more likely to try and maximize everything so that they got the most possible to the gates. Schoolmen first, obviously, the more the better, soldiers second. An optimal solution for that equation probably goes something like: the more schoolmen that live, the less risky they are in the field, the more soldiers will die - but if the schoolmen are too cautious and too many soldiers die, then all of them die as well.Then, calculate how big the host, that is the Ordeal, should be, in order to ensure this minimum amount completes the journey and their mission.I love the section in TJE where they talk about all the logistics planning. Basically 20 years to assemble all the food and infrastructure behind sending an army across the world.Yet, how would Kellhus have enough info to arrive at these numbers?
I mean, has he or someone else done some extensive reconnaissance / fact-finding?
The imperial trackers, for one. They spent a lot of time sending out people to meticulously map out the land as far as they could go. Not all the way to Golgotterath, but they got pretty far.
All the scalpers pushing back the sranc would have helped some as well.
Ancient Mandate texts - IIRC Kellhus spent some time going through their entire library trying to glean every piece of information about his foe that he could.
Kellhus himself probably did some hopping around too.
But like I said above, I don't they they were really solving the equation for a minimum, but a maximum. The max food they could carry, the max causalities they could suffer, the max attrition, etc. etc. They may have come up with a minimum they thought they needed, but really, their goal would have been to get the max forces their possible.
Shit Moose, yes Conphas in TTT I believe. To teach him a lesson. Thanks for the correction.
TH, we are indeed kindred spirits. I've mentioned many times on this forum about when the sorcerers stepped into the skies at that same point as horrifying. It was the first time reading a book that I got scared. Scared isn't the right word though, it definitely made me know I was reading something truly different.
So many parts of the book touch a part of your soul and it sticks. The epilogue of TWP when they are questioning about "WHO ARE THE DUNYAIN?", is gut wrenching. When Cnaüir rapes Proyas, I was at once jubilant and sick to my stomach. Bakker is like no other author I've ever read, point blank. It makes finding something to read quite the challenge.
Ah, thank you! I've already pre-ordered/paid for my copy from Amazon, says it's being released in July.
Not to get all sappy on everyone - but Bakker's descriptions of the "first" apocalypse have effected me, his description of horror is so much more powerful than anything I've read, including Herbert and Simmons, which screams a lot. The dragons dropping from the skies, snatching up humans was really horrifying to me. This idea of humans being so defenseless to something not human ... at risk of exposing my species conceit, but it's unnatural. Bakker takes the next step of a species overwhelming us, not just a mono a mono fight ( like a single human with no tools/weapons being overcome by a tiger for example ), but all of humanity, "naked", before something so powerful. And the terribleness of magic ( that fight with the Slvendi in the first book was just frightening, imagining people "walking" into the sky with the light shining out of the mouths and eyes ) - the mass MURDER of such a thing. This is the most plausible take on fantasy I've read - for dragons and magic would be the stuff of horror, not some interesting cool thing. Other books have people riding dragons and teaching magic in schools to children ... no ... it would be a fucked up nightmare.
