Realm of the Elderlings Project: The Tawny Man, Book 2: The Golden Fool
In which desire carries risks . @ergative continues the re-read at the NOAF blog
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Realm of the Elderlings: The Data Science Edition
I previously wrote a spoiler-free overview, a series by series reading experience report, and a deep dive into the book series Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. This post here will conclude my blog posts about Realm of the Elderlings with some data, both about the books themselves, as well as my personal reading statistics and ratings.
First, let’s look at the books and the series as a […]
I previously wrote a spoiler-free overview, a series by series reading experience report, and a deep dive into the book series Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. This post here will conclude my blog posts about Realm of the Elderlings with some data, both about the books themselves, as well as my personal reading statistics and ratings. First, let's look at the books and the series as a whole. I have read the physical paperback books published by Harper Voyager UK, so all my stats are based on those editions. There are 16 books in this series, which can [...]
Realm of the Elderlings: A deep dive
After I gave a a spoiler free overview of the Realm of the Elderlings, as well as a very long series by series review and reading experience report, I want to analyze some aspects of this series as a whole (but mostly regarding the books with Fitz as the main character). In this post, I’ll dive deep into the characters and themes of the series.
SPOILER WARNING: This entire post contains […]
After I gave a a spoiler free overview of the Realm of the Elderlings, as well as a very long series by series review and reading experience report, I want to analyze some aspects of this series as a whole (but mostly regarding the books with Fitz as the main character). In this post, I'll dive deep into the characters and themes of the series. SPOILER WARNING: This entire post contains heavy spoilers for the Realm of the Elderlings book series! Proceed to read at your own peril! Born a conflict FitzChivalry Farseer is the protagonist of 9 of the [...]
Realm of the Elderlings: Series by series reviews and reading experience
How was it to read The Realm of the Elderlings? After my spoiler-free overview in the previous post, this post will contain more in-depth reviews which were largely written as StoryGraph reviews as I was reading each book, and then later assembled here into a coherent post.
Some books or sub-series were definitely a lot easier to read than others. Each was a somewhat different experience, […]
How was it to read The Realm of the Elderlings? After my spoiler-free overview in the previous post, this post will contain more in-depth reviews which were largely written as StoryGraph reviews as I was reading each book, and then later assembled here into a coherent post. Some books or sub-series were definitely a lot easier to read than others. Each was a somewhat different experience, but to summarize it: once I really got started with this series, I was hooked and it was easy to go through these tomes that average roughly 683 pages. The Farseer Trilogy I picked [...]
Realm of the Elderlings: A spoiler free overview
Never in my life before have I undergone such a monumental task as reading a 16 book series. I’ve read a book series here and there, mostly though with only 3 books or in rare cases, up to 7 or 9. This achievement is a first for me, but hopefully not the last.
The series I’m writing about is The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. Her novels were recommended to me by friends and […]
Never in my life before have I undergone such a monumental task as reading a 16 book series. I've read a book series here and there, mostly though with only 3 books or in rare cases, up to 7 or 9. This achievement is a first for me, but hopefully not the last. The series I'm writing about is The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. Her novels were recommended to me by friends and BookTubers alike, so after having had them on my to-read list for a year, and the first three books waiting on my actual to-read-bookshelf [...]
#LiveshipTraders, Update: 100%
Schnüff. Das ist ein Ende wie ich es mag. Nicht zuuu kitschig, mit Potentialen für Fortsetzungen, offenen Rätseln - aber trotzdem mit diesem Gefühl, ein Abenteuer (oder fünf) abgeschlossen zu haben. Schade, dass die Liveships in den weiteren #RealmOfTheElderlings-Romanen keine nennenswerte Roll mehr zu spielen scheinen - auch wenn das aus den Ereignissen heraus natürlich verständlich ist.
Jetzt muss ich aber erstmal ein paar Sachen im Fandom-Wiki nachlesen ...
I am rereading the #RealmOfTheElderlings series by #RobinHobb. It is of course one the greatest #Fantasy series ever written. I finished the #Farseer trilogy and am on #LiveshipTraders.
This is mostly spoiler free.
There is a character named Kyle Haven who is quite unlikable. Hobb does a good job of making us understand his motivations. We know how he sees himself as the hero of his own story but that does not really make me emphasize with him.
Kyle Haven is a mundane villain but somehow that makes him even worse. He is the sort of person who bullies the people around him to make himself feel more important and convinces himself that he is actually doing them a favor. I think we've all known people like that.
Sometimes I read a book and I put it down and that's that. And other times I read a book and continue to think about the characters every waking minute I'm not thinking about something else, forever. #RealmOfTheElderlings by #RobinHobb has been the second, especially the Fitz books.
Looking at Reyn Khuprus fan art as potential character image for my game tonight and... damnit, you all made him hot (well, I mean, I made him hot in my headcannon too, but...) - this feels like Jonathan Rhys Meyers being cast as Steerpike...
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