Fool's Fate

[Omega]

Ok got the book this morning, haven't had chance to read it yet though.

[the_faery_queen]

noooo!
see, i was ok with the fool-fitz ending. that worked fine, that was hoqw i wanted it to be (if they couldn't be lovers) but i couldn't stand 100 pages or so of, so and so got married and had a kid, and so and so married someone else and everyone was vomitily happy and vomit vomit. i found it so contrived. i didn't care less about mollys stupid children and what they did. i didn't care less about dutiful having kids with that annoying woman (it annoyed me that he so convienanlty fell in love with the woman he was going to have to marry)

it went on too long. there was no reason to ever think there was going to be a book after the farseer triliogy. i think robin herself didn't even know (that's the what i felt she meant when she spoke at a signing about it) and that ending was, he lost everything, and we had no idea what was to come. and THAT ending worked fine! i just felt this ott use of happy marriages and breeding among characters who weren't even characters, just names, was too much. for me the series was about fitz and the fool and i would have far rather it ended when the fool left. the rest was unneccessary and i couldn't stand to read it properly. i had to skim it was so annoying to me!

not to mention i didn't really like the way fitz and molly got back together. im a cynic, yes. i hate romantic happy endings too. i just felt that i would have much rather had a realistic awkardness between fitz, molly and burrich, and sadness of the fool leaving, rather than a conveinant death so that fitz can get his girl, and tonnes of pointless marriages and babies.

can't abide the babies!

[Teir]

lol
fair enough if thats your opinion

I'm going to stick by mine that it is more satisfying when then author ties off all the strings of the story at the end.

[Rosemary]

Originally Posted by Teir

lol
fair enough if thats your opinion

I'm going to stick by mine that it is more satisfying when then author ties off all the strings of the story at the end.

My thoughts exactly Teir All of the books have contained brilliant stories and marvellous characters. Couldn't help but go and read the next in each series!

I am sure you will enjoy the books Omega...

[Allanon]

i just got shaman crossing for christmas, i dont know anything about hobb is he good?

[Omega]

Originally Posted by Allanon

i just got shaman crossing for christmas, i dont know anything about hobb is he good?

she.

[Allanon]

oops, im so sorry!

*mouth open, foot in!*

i'm not on form today!!! is she good?

[Rosemary]

Well I thought she was, Allanon.

The Farseer Trilogy is the first set you should try...Perhaps borrow them from the Library first.

[Omega]

I'm only 20 pages into "Assassin's Apprentice", I'm liking what I'm reading so far.

[Fortuna]

I read a Hobb interview recently that said she would consider writing about Fitz and the fool again if a good idea came to her.

Fool: 'We are here you and I Fitz, to save the world yet again'

Fitz: 'Oh gods, not again'

[Teir]

Fool: 'We are here you and I Fitz, to save the world yet again'

Fitz: 'Oh gods, not again'

lol!

I read a Hobb interview recently that said she would consider writing about Fitz and the fool again if a good idea came to her.

yes Hobb has always said that she wouldn't write a farseer story for the sake of writing one and that this would only occur if she were struck by inspiration - a fact she stated again in her newsgroup not long ago. While I would desperately like to read another fool/Fitz tale, i think Hobb has the right idea. I would rather read quality or not read it at all.

[the_faery_queen]

yeah, that's what she said at the book signing i went to. i would like a fool tale, but not a fitz-fool tale. i think fitz is done
and yes, i ant to know what happens to them after, but not in that much detail. i don't need to know about the random children of some woman ihate. i just want to know what fitz does.