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This book was marvelous, fantastic and legendary characters, great build up. Wonderful storytelling.
I should read this again in English (they didn't have it at the local library in English). Perhaps it will gain 5 stars then.
What an utter load of hautain silliness. It's quasi-spiritual and semi-intellectual, but fails at both. There were some interesting themes. But most of the story was conveyed in vague descriptions.
To top that he pretends to be very faithful to his wife while clearly being infatuated with the naked woman sitting on his lap (where invited her to sit). Which is a bizarrely dissonant thing to uphold as true.
Do not recommend this.
What can I say, I was not in fact blown away, as some people have described it to me.
The fun thing to me about the book was, that I did know anything about the story until I started. The post-apocalyptic style thus took me by surprise and was one of the little surprises in the book.
At times I felt that the story was not going anywhere. But then it did it so well, that I kept reading. Then there were a few more gems. The intricacies of the desolate protagonist telling himself and his son that they are the good guys, while in fact they are very similar if not the same as most of the people they meet. The times the slow journey was relieved with supplies and a place to rest.
In conclusion. Nice minimalism in the dialogue and pace in the story.
Oh yeah, and what the f*** was up with the last paragraph. After all this simple minimal train-of-thought kind of dialogues and factual description, the last paragraph all of a sudden is a bit of beautiful deep poetic prose completely out of place.
The Path of Daggers certainly isn't the greatest of the books so far. But it does set up some very interesting story hooks and cliffhangers for the next book.
I feel like the Wheel of Time is sort of a mess. It begins with 3 ta'veren (special people twisting luck and chance in the pattern of time) leaving town, with two ladies who want to train to become Aes Sedai (female wizards). These 3 are constantly being harassed by dreams. And all of a sudden they aren't. The same goes for the Egwene. Dreams, dreams, dreams. Oh no. Not anymore. Nobody seems to want to learn from anyone. And normal conversations are out of the question.
That said. It's still a magnificent series, because of the epic world building, the multitude of characters, and the very well thought-out magic system.
Oh and this book finally has some dragons!
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