Ahira's Hangar

Finally broke down and bought Deadhouse Gates and up to page 40. Good fit, feels right, and I'm going to finish the series as long as luci doesn't sucker me into WoW and Highdrake doesn't hover around me in his many persona at the Watch. Of course when over the dramatis personae and maps in DG & GotM. Actually, about a 3rd of GotM has filtered back into my head already and it's leading to some very strange dreams. I take it Genabackis lies north of the big map? This Mallick Rel character is delightfully slimy...

I see duchy has been busy here as well with her huge chapter by chapter analysis...

And you'll see Mallick Rel again, five or six books hence...

Well, I'm up to the Whirlwind and the slave escape, so it's picking up and a few more GotM memories are coming back. It is a little hard to keep the warrens, Gods, ascendants, tribes and immortals straight but it is engaging. I still feel like I need to reread GotM again as I seem do need refresher details on Crokus-the assasin girl was Sorry right? I'm sure, but wanted to be completely sure.

Yes, the assassin girl was Sorry...possessed by the Rope...now called Aspalar.

DHG is one of my favourite, it really is.

--A

Right on the brink of Chain of Dogs now...will have to read the aftermath of the battle again...probably not in the right mood while trying to put daughter to bed, spilling tea on the bedcovers and such...the battles and the engineer's walkway was cool, but I either couldn't follow or wasn't interested in the moraines and bloody walls of ice with the Smek god and all that. A nice quiet coffeehouse might be a better locale...

OK I don't get the hype--I'm at around p570 and yes I'm interested and yes it's a serviceable story and yes I like it, but I'm not horribly impressed. What am I missing?

Just wrote this on the Watch-Re DG: Not looking again, just trying to, sort of, piggyback on Orilon's thread. I've been enjoying the book, am invested in the story, but it didn't strike me as all that much until around page 610-620 uh WOW! If I've been halfway asleep through this book up till now I'm certainly beginning to wake up!

Almost done, and then I'll have lots to say-this thing grows on you, don't it? Is it just me or are Pust and Dr. Smith from Lost in Space the old TV series the the same character? I could easily see that actor playing him...to a tee...

Sometimes posts like these at the Hangar seem like messages in a bottle-an I'm really starting to miss duchy, but HOLY FRIGGIN' YOUKNOWWHATZIZ!!!!!! I guess it was worth hanging with this book because to final 200 pages completely blew my head off!!! Those are some amazing changes and incredible story-telling!!! I'll comment more as soon as y'all convince me I'm not talking to myself!

Yes, it is an incredible book.

Heh. Sorry danlo.

I can't imagine your lack of enthusiasm all the way through. But yeah, it definitely kicked up a notch at the end! The last of the Chain of Dogs is beyond all belief! Duiker getting them all to Aren, and waiting until every other one was in before going in himself. The old and weak who simply sat down to die within sight of the walls. The soldiers on the walls forbidden to go out and help. And Coltaine's final battle! I don't know how he manage to build the emotion higher and higher and higher like that! Duiker and Coltaine are extraordinary characters. Among my favorite of all literature.

And Fiddler's another among my top several favorite characters of all literature. Still more of him to come in future books, but he was fantastic here! His competence. His morality. And his meeting with Kimloc was such a great scene!

Icarium and Mappo are amazing. Their conversations, with each other, with D'ivers.

All meeting up with one of the wackiest characters of all time - Iskarall Pust! All going to Tremerlor!

Heboric narrating everything from millennia ago, when the human First Empire went all Soletaken, and the T'lan Imass came to wipe them out.

Felisin claiming the Whirlwind.

Man, there's SOOOOOO much going on in this book!!!! And the

I didn't really know what to think until I got to around p. 300 of Memories of Ice--entertaining story and all, but anhtz...suddenly these Tenescowri up close and personal, suddenly, DAM they are creepier and more deranged than piss!!!