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7th February 2006, 11:07 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Staffordshire
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| Fool's Fate Had this on my bookshelf for quite a while now, it was in my days as part of a mail order book club and haven't dusted it off for a future read. So opinions please, worth taking off the shelf for a read? |
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7th February 2006, 11:24 PM
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| pixie druid  Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Yorkshire
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| Re: Fool's Fate Have you read any of Hobb's other books?? if you have and enjoyed them get the other two in the series before reading Fools Fate, they are, Fool's Errand and The Golden Fool.If you haven't yet read The Farseer Trilogy then I'd suggest you try to get a hold of it before starting on the Tawny Man series Last edited by nixie; 7th February 2006 at 11:34 PM. |
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7th February 2006, 11:30 PM
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| pixie druid Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Yorkshire
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| Re: Fool's Fate You would be completley lost if you tried reading just reading Fools Fate...its the last one in the series you would have no background on chracters,you would be confused about what the wit and skill were. |
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8th February 2006, 12:49 AM
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| Lost in Thought  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Australia
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| Re: Fool's Fate YES! READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But there is no point to it if you havent read any of the others first..Its the last of 6 books! (I know, I know there is the liveship traders set but im talking specificaly about the farseer saga for those of you who were about to correct me  ) Nixie is right. Start with the 'Farseer Trilogy' then go 'Tawny Man' which includes this book. 'Fools Fate' is an emotional climax, to read it out of sequence will do it no justice whatsoever. |
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8th February 2006, 01:08 AM
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| Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Staffordshire
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| Re: Fool's Fate Ok I've just ordered "Assasin's Apprentice" from www.play.com for £5.49 free delivery. |
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8th February 2006, 07:54 PM
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| pixie druid Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Yorkshire
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| Re: Fool's Fate Quote:
 or should that be right If you notice I never mentioned Liveships either | |
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8th February 2006, 07:59 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Swansea
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| Re: Fool's Fate yeah, you need to read the others. and even then, fool's fate, its a bit of a let down. tho it has the sort of ending that i wanted (between teh main characters) it then has a lot of pointless stuff at the end that really ruined the book for me. amrriages and babies to lots of pointless characters. *shrug* its a good read, if you ignore the end but its an end in itself to the series. :0 |
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8th February 2006, 09:10 PM
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| Daisy Toadfoot  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wiltshire
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| Re: Fool's Fate Quote:
 I thought the ending was justified, she had made it quite clear that she wasn't going to write anymore stories involving these two characters and I think it summed everything up nicely for the reader who knew there was to be no more after Fools Fate! xx | |
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