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RE: How did you get involved with RotE - londonlassie - Aug-21-2012 (Aug-21-2012, 07:59 PM (UTC))fool-ish Wrote: Really? Nevare similar to Fitz? I don't see any similarity at all. Nevare didn't drag me through the wringer like Fitz did..ever! I've heard it said several times on the internet, but I think the largest list of similarities I've seen was in the "Gernia Vs ROTE" thread in the Gernia forum, especially this part of the first post by Farseer (Jul-17-2010, 02:20 PM (UTC))Farseer Wrote: Similarities between Nevare and Fitz RE: How did you get involved with RotE - KekPafrany - Aug-22-2012 (Aug-21-2012, 11:36 AM (UTC))londonlassie Wrote: What would prompt me to read the books is that several people have said that Nevare is similar to Fitz, and yet they dislike Nevare and love Fitz. So there must be some kind of huge difference between them which renders one likeable and the other the opposite. Fitz made the changes, all of them. Nevare's role was usually too passive to my liking. Things just happened around him and he was there, watching but couldn't do and couldn't know anything. Not a lucky position for a main character in a story. I plan to read it again however, so maybe I'll understand better. RE: How did you get involved with RotE - fool-ish - Aug-22-2012 I suppose, on reading that from the Gernia thread, I can see some similarities and as I've only read Shaman's Crossing, I really haven't a clue what goes on in the next SS books. I cared about Fitz from the beginning, yet (awful as it sounds) found I couldn't care less about Nevare RE: How did you get involved with RotE - londonlassie - Aug-22-2012 (Aug-22-2012, 11:44 AM (UTC))fool-ish Wrote: I suppose, on reading that from the Gernia thread, I can see some similarities and as I've only read Shaman's Crossing, I really haven't a clue what goes on in the next SS books. I cared about Fitz from the beginning, yet (awful as it sounds) found I couldn't care less about Nevare That doesn't sound bad at all, fool-ish. We all have characters we just click with, and characters who don't move us at all. I'm not surprised, either. There doesn't seem to be a lot of praise on the internet for Nevare. RE: How did you get involved with RotE - Farseer - Aug-22-2012 Just adding a spoiler tag to the thread title, especially for SS as this is a RotE thread. Of course, it's likely I'll look back at old posts and discover that we needed a spoiler tag a long time ago! As for similarities and differences...one glaring difference is that I am in love with one character and not the other. Guess which is which. It is for the former that I introduce other readers to Hobb and hope that one day theywill tell someone else that they became involved with RotE through me (some random nutter they met in a bookstore lurking near the fantasy 'H' section). RE: How did you get involved with RotE - londonlassie - Aug-22-2012 (Aug-22-2012, 12:19 PM (UTC))Farseer Wrote: Just adding a spoiler tag to the thread title, especially for SS as this is a RotE thread. Whoops, my bad. Sorry, Farseer. (Aug-22-2012, 12:19 PM (UTC))Farseer Wrote: As for similarities and differences...one glaring difference is that I am in love with one character and not the other. Oh, the joys of falling in love with fictional characters, eh? *coughKennitcough* [/quote] RE: How did you get involved with RotE (spoilers Farseer, TM & Soldier Son) - Farseer - Aug-24-2012 No worries...I am the worst repeat spoiler offender here. As for SS, I felt that I understood liveships (especially Paragon and Vivacia), simulacra such as Verity-as-Dragon and other similar aspects of RotE far better after reading the series. I know I talked about ascendancy etc in the Gernia thread but I think there may also be a conversation here in the RotE room too...something I chatted about with those beings known as 'thul at least. I found it fascinating actually! RE: How did you get involved with RotE (spoilers Farseer, TM & Soldier Son) - finella - Aug-24-2012 I discovered RH’s books in the public library some 6 years or so ago, because I was looking for something for summer-holidays. I started with AA and was hooked at once. I remember my husband and friends were very irritated, because I spent all my time with reading and were not addressable at all for hours . Since then I read all her books for several times (SS only once, because I also don’t really like it that much) and tell everybody, what an adorable writer Robin Hobb is, never mind if he wants to hear it or not . And I am proud to tell, that two of my friends, who were’nt interested in fantasy at all („puh, you and your fantasy“) fell also deeply in love with Fitz and the Fool, Nighteyes, Paragon, Ophelia, Amber etc.. The one friend told me just last week, that it’s my fault, that her housework has run down to a minimum and also the conversations with her husband . RE: How did you get involved with RotE (spoilers Farseer, TM & Soldier Son) - fool-ish - Aug-24-2012 (Aug-24-2012, 10:06 AM (UTC))finella Wrote: I discovered RH’s books in the public library some 6 years or so ago, because I was looking for something for summer-holidays. I started with AA and was hooked at once. I remember my husband and friends were very irritated, because I spent all my time with reading and were not addressable at all for hours . Since then I read all her books for several times (SS only once, because I also don’t really like it that much) and tell everybody, what an adorable writer Robin Hobb is, never mind if he wants to hear it or not . And I am proud to tell, that two of my friends, who were’nt interested in fantasy at all („puh, you and your fantasy“) fell also deeply in love with Fitz and the Fool, Nighteyes, Paragon, Ophelia, Amber etc.. The one friend told me just last week, that it’s my fault, that her housework has run down to a minimum and also the conversations with her husband . RE: How did you get involved with RotE (spoilers Farseer, TM & Soldier Son) - Farseer - Aug-24-2012 Love it, finella! I've been using the RH vs Housework excuse for years. |