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Sep. 27th, 2004 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
molly_oWhen I'm good about reading LJ, I get bad about posting. Two months is pretty bad, even for as desultory a poster as I.
So, I finally finished reading the Robin Hobb books. (OK, this is a lie, I actually never read the first two. But as Fitz was never really a reason I read these books, I am not going to go back and read them now. ) I won't say I wasn't saddened by the resolution of Fool's Fate -- to the contrary, I was near tears for the last 100 pages or so -- but I am not pissed off about it. She pretty much sold me on it. Fitz seems to me the kind of rash person who would do the things he does, and the Fool seems to me the kind of wiser person who would do what he does. And I do think it was wise (though if you'd asked me *before* I read Fool's Fate, I wouldn't have). The analogy to Nighteyes is what made it all make sense to me.
Meanwhile, I am so frustrated not to have more of that world to sink into -- really, more of the Liveship Traders world, because that trilogy was like CRACK for me. Seriously. The Farseer books are powder cocaine -- quite addictive, but I can keep it together. But the Liveship Traders were crack. I would get home and think, "I'll just read for a hour and then make dinner." Then almost two hours later I'd hear Mark's key in the lock, surface long enough to throw together a half-assed meal (saute chicken, forget to make any rice, shrug my shoulders, and throw a bag of baby carrots at my husband), then climb back on the couch with my book for the rest of the evening.
I had hoped Fool's Fate would bring together Farseer and Liveship (and maybe give me more about the Vestrits!), but no such luck. I harbor (probably vain) hopes she'll be inspired to continue with that universe. In the meantime, I have to find another saga to get sucked into ...
So, I finally finished reading the Robin Hobb books. (OK, this is a lie, I actually never read the first two. But as Fitz was never really a reason I read these books, I am not going to go back and read them now. ) I won't say I wasn't saddened by the resolution of Fool's Fate -- to the contrary, I was near tears for the last 100 pages or so -- but I am not pissed off about it. She pretty much sold me on it. Fitz seems to me the kind of rash person who would do the things he does, and the Fool seems to me the kind of wiser person who would do what he does. And I do think it was wise (though if you'd asked me *before* I read Fool's Fate, I wouldn't have). The analogy to Nighteyes is what made it all make sense to me.
Meanwhile, I am so frustrated not to have more of that world to sink into -- really, more of the Liveship Traders world, because that trilogy was like CRACK for me. Seriously. The Farseer books are powder cocaine -- quite addictive, but I can keep it together. But the Liveship Traders were crack. I would get home and think, "I'll just read for a hour and then make dinner." Then almost two hours later I'd hear Mark's key in the lock, surface long enough to throw together a half-assed meal (saute chicken, forget to make any rice, shrug my shoulders, and throw a bag of baby carrots at my husband), then climb back on the couch with my book for the rest of the evening.
I had hoped Fool's Fate would bring together Farseer and Liveship (and maybe give me more about the Vestrits!), but no such luck. I harbor (probably vain) hopes she'll be inspired to continue with that universe. In the meantime, I have to find another saga to get sucked into ...