Story Time
Today I did something I haven’t done in a long long time, I devoured a novel.
It was Fool’s Fate, the final chapter in Robin Hobb’s ‘The Tawny Man’ trilogy, which itself was the third and final trilogy of novels based around, and writtent hrough the eyes of the bastard Fitz.
At the end of the Liveship and Farseer trilogies I had been left unhappy with how everything was resolved. In the case of the Farseer trilogy a character I really enjoyed died in a manner that I felt was pointless and unworthy of said character. In the second, The Liveship trilogy, I felt the end was too rushed and compressed, resulting in some fairly vague memories of what actually transpired. Nothing wrong with this ending though. The truth is that I am extremely hard to please when it comes to endings in my novels, but in this case the author pushed all the right buttons and wrapped up basically every loose end from the previous 8 books, all in a neat little package that fit into the story and didn’t retcon a single thing.
Good book, good series, good author!
So that was 8 hrs of my day today , I then spent 2hrs watching the latest ( 4th ) Tarantino film, “Kill Bill, Vol.1″.
Whoops.. I urge anyone who has any choice in the matter to please not go and see this film, it is a shockingly bad film, with poor dialogue, acting and story. Lets not even touch on the fountains of blood..
Tarantino, I want those 6600 seconds of my life back, after watching your film I could actually feel them being torn from me.