[Abyss]

I loved it.
It's a slower, more cerebral read than the previous books, but it works, oh, it works.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is cold and dead inside or terry goodkind.


- Abyss, ...is just saying... :angel:

[Jorram]

Not having finished it yet, i only have this to say about pacing and style - pacing is good, writing is needlessly overdone.

Yes, i know contradicts most the guys here, but thats what i thought

And honestly, let's finally put that question face to face now - whats with these absurd would-be poems at chapters' starts? Anybody ever caught any connection to anything? They don't even try to sound poetic...

[Abyss]

Jorram;374746 said:

...And honestly, let's finally put that question face to face now - whats with these absurd would-be poems at chapters' starts? Anybody ever caught any connection to anything? They don't even try to sound poetic...

You're kidding, right?

- Abyss, just making sure...

[eekwibble]

This is from the TOR Q&A interview posted on pbwiki encyclopedia malazica:

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I started writing fiction in my early twenties — contemporary stuff for the most part, short stories and the like — until I took a creative writing course at my local university (where I was in a master's program in anthropology, but getting rather bored). It was a poetry workshop, in fact

I hope that explains it for you!

[Epiph]

Jorram;374746 said:

And honestly, let's finally put that question face to face now - whats with these absurd would-be poems at chapters' starts? Anybody ever caught any connection to anything? They don't even try to sound poetic...

Actually, I kind of agree with you here...but only because of their lack of punctuation, and the fact that SE makes no effort to give the different poets different poetic styles or voices. In fact, if the lack of punctuation were only present in the poems of specific poets and not ubiquitous, I could totally get behind it. But since it appears to be SE's own poetic affectation (and seriously, nothing bothers me more in poetry than disregard for grammatical structure--it stopped being innovative with ee cummings, people), I want to hurl my book across the room every time I read one of those poems.

- Epiph, clearly an English major.