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  • T thrakazog

    The 14th and final Wheel of Time[^] book was finally released today. I started it before work today. I've never felt the urge to ditch work over a book before. :rolleyes:

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    Clifford Nelson
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    I am not sure if I should be impressed or not...You made it to work!?

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    • T thrakazog

      That is an odd choice they made. They are doing the same for the Kindle. And that's after they already released the prologue for 14 to the Kindle months back.

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      Yeah, nook got the same prologue. I didn't see much point in purchasing it since I'm going to purchase the full book when it actually gets nook-ized.

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      • C Clifford Nelson

        I am not sure if I should be impressed or not...You made it to work!?

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        Well i'm off to lunch now. This may be a very long lunch break. :-D

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        • B bwhittington

          They actually talk about them in the book but they extended it for the movie.

          There they were sheltering under a hanging rock for the night, and he lay beneath a blanket and shook from head to toe. When he peeped out in the lightning-flashes, he saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out and were hurling rocks at one another for a. game, and catching them, and tossing them down into the darkness where they smashed among the trees far below, or splintered into little bits with a bang. [...] They could hear the giants guffawing and shouting all over the mountainsides. [...] "This won't do at all!" said Thorin. "If we don't get blown off or drowned, or struck by lightning, we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football." [...] As they passed under the arch, it was good to hear the wind and the rain outside instead of all about them, and to feel safe from the giants and their rocks. The Hobbit, Chapter Four, Over Hill and Under Hill

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          thrakazog
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          Huh, that's interesting. I was discussing this with a few friends. All of use had read the Hobbit and none of us remembered anything about the rock giants being in there.

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          • P Pete OHanlon

            Like the big spoiler from Aviendha going back to Rhuidean?

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            That was interesting. But all the future visions bear the asterisk of we need there to be a future. If the dark one breaks the wheel all bets are off.

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            • G glennPattonWork3

              Hobbits good point seen the film yet ?, from what I heard it's going to be a triolgy (?), but it's the thinest book Tolkien produced....

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              Mark H2
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              Yes. And I have to agree with P.O'H. I had to take my 12yr old son to see it (in 3D for the second time). I awoke about 45 minutes in to the sound of my own snoring. Unless you're a Tolkien nut then don't bother. Incidentally, I went to the same high school as Mr. Jackson. He was in my sisters class. And he's a Tolkien nut from back then (mid 70's).

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              • T thrakazog

                That was interesting. But all the future visions bear the asterisk of we need there to be a future. If the dark one breaks the wheel all bets are off.

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                It's more the glimpse of what it means for Rand.

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                • P Pete OHanlon

                  This guy[^]

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                  He looks like a weasel...

                  Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington

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                    He looks like a weasel...

                    Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington

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                    Pete OHanlon
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                    That's a bit unkind to weasels.

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                    • P Pete OHanlon

                      I remember starting that series years and years ago - unfortunately, Jordan dragged it on and on and on, far past the point where he should have wrapped it all off. The problem was, it always felt incredibly derivative: Rand al Thor - Paul Atreides Aes Sedai - Bene Geserit Invasion of Trollocs - hello, does Helms Deep mean anything? Band of friends off on different adventures - Hobbits And so on.

                      *pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington

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                      Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                      unfortunately, Jordan dragged it on and on and on, far past the point where he should have wrapped it all off.

                      Since he died before the last two books one might suppose that there must be some truth in that statement.

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                      • T thrakazog

                        Well i'm off to lunch now. This may be a very long lunch break. :-D

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                        Did you make it back?

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                        • C Clifford Nelson

                          Did you make it back?

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                          thrakazog
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                          Yeah, a mere 10-15 minutes late.

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