--- Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 10:26:02PM -0700, Philip Hart wrote: > > spoilers for _TEoDM_ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > again, spoilers for the Pirodessey or the end of the Paarfiad or ... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2. The editing in this volume seems to me to have been the best by > far. > > I only caught a "the the". Well, that and the lack of several > > sentences in Paarfi's Afterward conversation on pg 345. > > I think the subject of a sentence got messed up at one point, like it > says > "Sethra" when it should have been Sethra the Younger or the Sorceress. There are several others, for instance in the battle in the cave. ... > > the description of the meal early in the book, it struck me that Piro > > refuses to follow society's dictates in questions of marriage while > > happily exploiting the Teckla, who end up eating the nobles' scraps. > > Unpiroic. > > Unsurprising. Indeed, much as Khaavren magnanimously doesn't mind that the Teckla errand runner does himself the honor to agree with Khaavren. I wonder how much of the irony is on Paarfi's part and how much is on Steven's. ... > Possibly also had a thing for Tazendra himself. I was disappointed > Sethra or > the Necromancer didn't resurrect the recently dead folk lying around the > cave. > I think we heard of a resurrection happening somewhere, earlier in the > book. I was sort of expecting that too, but I like the book at least as well because it didn't happen. > Pel becoming Prime Minister was a nice moment. Was a PM even mentioned > in _Orca_? Not that I remember. Maybe there was a cabinet reorganization. Which reminds me that StY is the Warlord at the end. Who'd have thought it? I can hardly imagine she was the Warlord in _Dragon_ and _Yendi_--someone would have mentioned that Morrolan had the Warlord fighting for him, StY wouldn't have to struggle so hard to try to invade the East, and she wouldn't care so much about being the Warlord in the next reign. Wonder what happened, and I still wonder who is the Warlord in the Vlad books, especially _Phoenix_. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html