Your combined descriptions have convinced me I need to read this one.
idk if this counts as âreadingâ but I just got done listening to McWhorterâs Great Courses series on âThe Story of Human Languageâ and itâs pretty great.
For the record, I liked both! But I was more surprised by how well the evolution narrative was handled (Iâm not much of a sci or sci-fi guy, so that may explain my response).
lol at getting mad at GRRM for this shit.
Trumpâs USPS fuckery has made me decide to reread The Crying of Lot 49.
Has anyone read a good biography of PT Barnum? My wife and I watched The Greatest Showman which was a pretty bad, if not somewhat entertaining, movie that glossed over the apparently much more interesting real-life story.
and I finished the last book in the realm of the elderlings saga. fuck my life I am crushed, never had this many feels from reading (or any kind of entertainment). I hope Hobb keeps writing in this world
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Her books are soooo good but she makes the lives of her characters so miserable! But damn is she good at writing them!
There is a trilogy that isnât part of her elderlings world that is much lower rated, despite that, I really really enjoyed that trilogy too.
I saw that, Iâll probably try it out. I think I saw some comment about it being much bleaker than the main series which is kind of alarming
Haha I would put it at the same level of bleakness. Although itâs not all bleak, there are some good parts/points too!
Farseer, Tawny Man, and Fitz and the Fool are all tightly connected. Liveship and Rain Wild are connected.
Iâd read them in the order listed
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Seconded, just read in the order they were written! (with the exception of the trilogy that was written between tawny man and rain wilds (soldier son trilogy), but that isnât part of the elderlings realm).
I think I might have to do a re-read of this in not too long. Although currently rereading the stormlight archives to be ready for book 4.
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IIRC, she said after Tawny Man she was done with the world because âthere are no more stories to tell.â LOL WTF, you just awakened what was in the ice and there are no more stories to tell?
There is also a short novella, The Princess and the Piebald Prince that takes place generations before the other books. It is mentioned a number of times in Tawny Man as legend/cautionary tale, so you could read it before that trilogy, but itâs not necessary.
Reading the Tawny Man trilogy first could spoil an aspect of the Liveship Traders trilogy
regarding Amber
It can be guessed, but isnât confirmed until the later book.
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Good catch, forgot all about that.
Agree that they should be read in the order they were written, some people Iâve seen want to only read the Fitz stuff but I really liked the Liveship and Rain Wilds books and it wouldnât have been the same reading them last or skipping them.
Another author who I was reading a lot when I was pushing through Robin Hobb was Katherine Kurtz. Is anyone else a fan?