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Having read all of them it gets weird as poo poo towards the end. They end up going on a jaunt to the lower plains, blow up the god of those lower planes by slamming a moon(?) into Kelewan, destroying that, Nakor turns out to be Banath, and I think Thomas ends up stuck in some kind of other plane fighting Draken Korin for all eternity.
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Just binge read this LP, it's interesting to see how the game approaches the story considering I never beat it (or got very far in) as a kid.Guildenstern Mother posted:Having read all of them it gets weird as poo poo towards the end. They end up going on a jaunt to the lower plains, blow up the god of those lower planes by slamming a moon(?) into Kelewan, destroying that, Nakor turns out to be Banath, and I think Thomas ends up stuck in some kind of other plane fighting Draken Korin for all eternity. As weird as the series gets toward the end, at least it never ends up as bad as Rise of a Merchant Prince, a novel about the least likeable former-criminal-turned-soldier and his rise to becoming absurdly wealthy. That's the low point, though the whole Talwin Hawkins arc got pretty close. Also, Nakor wasn't actually Banath, he just had a fragment of Banath inside him. So did Macros.
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Feb 4, 2022 22:59
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He has a sad tendency even in the earlier novels to forget lovable characters. For example, Suli is such a well-done character in Prince of the Blood, then Nakor and Ghuda show up, Suli dies and we are expected to be sad when he's been ignored for a long time. Then, in Buccaneer, I was so happy to see Ghuda back, they ignore him for the whole book, and then his death is flat because he's been ignored. I don't know if there were too many characters and he got lost in the shuffle, or if the author was trying to bury him (literally and figuratively).
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Roo being a dumb jerk who starts option trading is a low point in what is otherwise an excellent 4 book series. The Super Sword fighting Chef was very bad, and worse. The one where the guy is dragging the body of a dead magic robot warrior was good though. After that they all blend together and I stopped after two major characters are reborn and demons or whatever that book is.
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Feb 8, 2022 06:03
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I've always found that Feist's work is better when it's focused on more humanistic plots involving politics, war, scheming and character conflicts. When he goes full 'high fantasy', it loses something for me.
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Feb 8, 2022 16:54
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JustJeff88 posted:I've always found that Feist's work is better when it's focused on more humanistic plots involving politics, war, scheming and character conflicts. When he goes full 'high fantasy', it loses something for me. I think part of it is that while Feist generally knows how to describe stuff like a battle or a city, he's actually really really bad at making magic sound exciting. Like for the most part it's either performed with such little fanfare that it's completely unimpressive or the description that Feist clearly thinks is very cool just fails to ignite my imagination at all.
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