Epic RotE re-read of 2014

[ingemisco]

Hello everyone. I'm also doing a reread and am three quarters of the way through AA now. Though I've read it often (though the last time was perhaps five years ago), and I've never doubted that it's marvellous. I always seem to forget just HOW wonderful it is and how much I love it. And how, like no other book, it takes me back to the time that I first read it, and conjures up those same imaginings of the world and the characters. Ah.

What I am struck by, though, is how quickly everything seems to happen. Obviously it's a short book by the standards of many of those that follow, but given how much ground is being laid (and actually how subtle and intricate the plot is, with all sorts of background threads being hinted at that aren't explored until a lot later) I can't help wishing it were twice as long. Of course I'm also finding it very hard to read it slowly....