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[Alexander]

Right now I'm about to start a new book actually, but I'm a bit torn. I've got the Appeal from John Grisham, American gods by Neil Gaimann and the first Shannara books by Terry Brooks. All were acquired on my recent trip to Orlando, and I'm not sure which to begin with tbh as all are quite appealing

[Alexander]

No Silmarillion or Children of Hurin?

hehe, nope, not this time. I've read Silmarillion twice, and while it is fun, it's not as fun as some of the others. Children I've only read once, right after purchasing it.

including the latest one, Wrath of a Mad God (good, but not what I had hoped, and there was a couple of annoying inconsistencies with earlier books)

I felt the same way. Minwanabi Vassals to the Acoma? What the.....

Terribly disappointing reading such obvious flaws in the authors memory. (I'm guessing he meant Anasati as the vassals, not resurrecting a dead house.)


Right now I'm reading "Necronomicon, the best weird tales of H.P. Lovecraft." This is simply awesome. I'd read some of his work previously, a long time ago, but in Dutch. And again I'm proving myself right when I feel books are best read in the author's native tongue. A dutch version of HP Lovecraft doesn't begin to do justice to the creepiness and mystery of reading it in English. I'm at "The Dunwich Horror" right now and it's proven one of the best.

So anyone who enjoys horror, and hasn't read HP Lovecraft previously, I can definitely recommend his work.

[Wolfie]

including the latest one, Wrath of a Mad God (good, but not what I had hoped, and there was a couple of annoying inconsistencies with earlier books)

I felt the same way. Minwanabi Vassals to the Acoma? What the.....

Terribly disappointing reading such obvious flaws in the authors memory. (I'm guessing he meant Anasati as the vassals, not resurrecting a dead house.)

There was 3 others I noticed, as well. We had Ryath changing from a female golden dragon to a male red dragon. Then there was Kitty, Erik VonDarkmoor's wife, being erased from existence when it was stated he never married. And then we had the original ancestral Acoma home still being in their hands, even though it was given to Lujan when he started his own noble house. It's entirely possible there was other ones, too, I just missed them.

[Alexander]

There was 3 others I noticed, as well. We had Ryath changing from a female golden dragon to a male red dragon. Then there was Kitty, Erik VonDarkmoor's wife, being erased from existence when it was stated he never married. And then we had the original ancestral Acoma home still being in their hands, even though it was given to Lujan when he started his own noble house. It's entirely possible there was other ones, too, I just missed them.

All true yeah, and the one where they hinted so badly at the young guy (can't think of his name) that they find a few books earlier, containing a spark of the nameless one in him, and now all of a sudden it's a spark of a lost warrior god from that realm. Another change.

But really, I could have accepted one or two of these things, like the changing of a divine spark, and Kitty without too much trouble, but I thought Minwanabi was probably the biggest thing changed around, I mean two out of three books of the Empire Trilogy centered around the conflict between them and the Acoma, and for them to be resurrected, sheesh.

On another forum I have heard some wild theories though, about a mirror universe, different dimensions where things happened differently etc. I'm not sure if there's really a chance for such a thing to be brought up in a latter book and it's not simply a case of an author gone sloppy, but I guess a very small part of me still holds out some hope that the author will address these things in a latter book and make them right again. (Talk about idle hope eh )