Yeah. The Tir Allainn series was a difficult read for me. And I haven't tried the Other's series. I liked Ephemera pretty well.Originally Posted by thalassa
Yeah. The Tir Allainn series was a difficult read for me. And I haven't tried the Other's series. I liked Ephemera pretty well.
Service to your fellows is the root of peace.
Is this the series whereSpoiler!
Cuz if so, those books are messed up.
We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.
Questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as my heart.
Hot Pickle!
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
“Leaving is not enough. You must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change the locks even on the house he’s never visited. You lucky, lucky girl. You have an apartment just your size. A bathtub full of tea. A heart the size of Arizona, but not nearly so arid. Don’t wish away your cracked past, your crooked toes, your problems are papier mache puppets you made or bought because the vendor at the market was so compelling you just had to have them. You had to have him. And you did. And now you pull down the bridge between your houses, you make him call before he visits, you take a lover for granted, you take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic. Make the first bottle you consume in this place a relic. Place it on whatever altar you fashion with a knife and five cranberries. Don’t lose too much weight. Stupid girls are always trying to disappear as revenge. And you are not stupid. You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”
Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell
The part of your post in the spoiler tag shows in the "What's New" view of the site. Weird.
Can you hear me, Major Tom? I think I love you.
The activity stream suppresses BBcode. Pretty much anything in a tag will be completely ignored by it. One of these days, I may look into whether that's optional but it hasn't been particularly important to date.
"It is not simply enough to know the light…a Jedi must feel the tension between the two sides of the Force…in himself and in the universe."
―Thon
"When to the Force you truly give yourself, all you do expresses the truth of who you are,"
Yoda
Yoda told stories, and ate, and cried, and laughed: and the Padawans saw that life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
"But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."
John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper
"You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."
Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
Interesting - I never noticed it before!
I just finished reading "In Pieces" - Sally Field's autobiography. I really didn't know much about her personal life, so it was a pretty good read.
Can you hear me, Major Tom? I think I love you.
Possible TRIGGER WARNING
Possibly, in the Black Jewels... There's a pretty graphic scene of a 12 yo's rape close to the end of the first book. She was a virgin, and I don't specifically remember a device being used, so I'm not sure. I don't remember anything like that from the Tir Alainn series. The Black Jewels has some really graphic content throughout, but I do a pretty good job of editing that out for myself as I read. At least after the first read through. I've been reading this series to my SOs and while I feel it takes something away, I don't read any of the sections from the perspective of the bad guys in the books because my gf is pretty sensitive to the graphic content. And I edit, at times heavily, the sections form the good guys perspective to get rid of the graphicness while still relaying the content as close to the original as I can. I really tone it down, which makes me exercise my previously nearly nonexistent improv skills.
All that being said. I love the universe in general. I love the concepts and the culture and the religion as it is. I find it fascinating on the same level that I found the Kushiel series fascinating.
Service to your fellows is the root of peace.
I found the world-building for the Black Jewels series entertaining on a number of fronts. It's not a series that I'm in any great rush to re-read but it was a fun series and the choices in world building amused me.
"It is not simply enough to know the light…a Jedi must feel the tension between the two sides of the Force…in himself and in the universe."
―Thon
"When to the Force you truly give yourself, all you do expresses the truth of who you are,"
Yoda
Yoda told stories, and ate, and cried, and laughed: and the Padawans saw that life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
"But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."
John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper
"You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."
Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
I LOVED the Kushiel series. I haven't read much of the books that followed the first 6, though... I should finish them. :/ Or get them on audio book, actually.
“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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The last three books take place more than a hundred years after the first set (I want to say 300 years later) and I wasn't as interested in them as I was the first six. All the characters I knew were dead and gone, and it was only minimally related to the first six. That may be why you never got around to reading them.
Service to your fellows is the root of peace.
I do believe that was a large part in why. There were even parts in the first six that somewhat lost my interest. Usually when things got overly mystical. It felt a bit rushed.
“Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
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