[Bear]

So i'm rereading the series again. I'm continually amazed how Erikson puts in prose that the first time we have to suspend our desire to understand what it really means.

I just reread the passage where Feather Witch (or is it Feather Bitch? ) is casting the tiles for the second time. In her monologue she says

Spoiler

"The Knight strides his own doomed path, soon to cross blades with his own vengeance." A foreshadowing into book 8! This is like in MoI we see the results of Mael's displeasure with the Edur. There is a fair amount in FB's speach about Tiam - "The Eleint would destroy all in their paths to achieve vengeance." (note different use of vengeance to confuse us!)...I'm wondering if there are foreshadows here to book 10 an the Ottatarel dragon...is that Tiam?

Sometimes I think he wrote it with the expectation that we would have to read it 2 or 3 times before we really figure out the richness and detail and how it all really does fit together.

so wow. just wow.

This post has been edited by Bear: 12 December 2009 - 07:50 PM

[wolf_2099]

Erikson. ERIKSON!

[Bear]

wolf_2099, on 12 December 2009 - 07:28 PM, said:

Erikson. ERIKSON!

fixed.

[End of Disc One]

Yeah I noticed "Vengeance" in another book, I think TB. Pretty cool after the fact.

[Ulrik]

 

Bear, on 12 December 2009 - 07:19 PM, said:

Spoiler

"The Knight strides his own doomed path, soon to cross blades with his own vengeance." A foreshadowing into book 8!  This is like in MoI we see the results of Mael's displeasure with the Edur.  There is a fair amount in FB's speach about Tiam - "The Eleint would destroy all in their paths to achieve vengeance." (note different use of vengeance to confuse us!)...I'm wondering if there are foreshadows here to book 10 an the Ottatarel dragon...is that Tiam?

Sometimes I think he wrote it with the expectation that we would have to read it 2 or 3 times before we really figure out the richness and detail and how it all really does fit together.

so wow.  just wow.

Im at cca same place of complete reread and when got to this part, my jaw went to other dimension... OK, I got that SE has drawn storyline to TCG but its still stunning in its almost psychopathic detail... Like whole Silanda case stretched to three books.





Simply HAIL THE ERIKSON!

[Ain't_It_Just_]

The man has brains coming out of his ears.

Yes.

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[MTS]

It's such a hallmark of his work - all I can do is shake my head in admiration. The man loves to layer his narrative, and it shows.

[Twistacles]

The most mind-blowing foreshadowing quote in Midnight Tides is a scene when Brys and Ceda Quru Quan are talking, at the beginning:
"Turudal Bizard?"
"Ah, such an errant..."

[Ain't_It_Just_]

You're kidding...

[Salt-Man Z]

Holy crap, he's not:

MT p. 378 Tor MMPB said:

'Who forwarded the Chancellor's request?'

'What? Oh, Turudal Brizad.'

'Ah, yes. Such an errant, troubled lad. One sees such sorrow in his eyes, or at least in his demeanour.'

(Google Books link)

[Harvester]

The freaking hell! The level of detail is simply mindblowing.

This post has been edited by Harvester: 19 February 2010 - 03:15 AM

[HoosierDaddy]

You know what the lesson is kids? RE-READS ARE THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT!

[Twistacles]

Sorry I didn't have the exact quote. But when I was reading it (second time) I had to stop and read it again.


And I shat bricks.

[Excellence]

I'm aware of this and noticing them. There are a lot...

He has foreshadowed a great deal from early published books. Onrack's name was thrown in a book before you met him too, a single throwaway line.

The first 5 chapters in A Game of Thrones too preluded the next three books.

[Lucky Revenant]

Things like this are why I reread deck readings multiple times before moving on. Of course, I never can make much sense of them.