Yeah I guess that's what Feist was talking about when he said he was successful because he broke the rules. It makes sense that the work was a mashup of previous works, it seemed clear that outside of his set pieces things really got bogged down.
I read magician first and after that trying to read Lotr was going from a carnival ride to a cathedral, long slow and overly rich.
The dizzying heights of individual expansion that pug/tomas got to over the series has died with the 80s and thanos I guess. That scene in the colosseum raining fire raindrops still sits vividly in my mind, why the greatest hits from magician have never been made into a more expressive media is obvious financially but nags at me nonetheless.
> That scene in the colosseum raining fire raindrops still sits vividly in my mind, why the greatest hits from magician have never been made into a more expressive media is obvious financially but nags at me nonetheless.
Ah the memories. That was indeed an awesome scene. You also reminded me of some other scenes in that book:
- Macros defending Elvandar all on his own
- Macros confronting Tomas after the battle and Tomas realizing how powerful Macros was
- Pug Tomas and Macros watching the creation of the universe at "A darkness at Sethanon"
On one hand I'd like to see them turned into movies/series but at the same time I think I prefer not to "spoil" the world and the characters that I have built in my mind.
That being said -- it does feel like it was going to get some pretty stiff competition - with the $$ amazon are throwing at LoTR and WoT, alongside Witcher, GOT Prequels, etc.
I read magician first and after that trying to read Lotr was going from a carnival ride to a cathedral, long slow and overly rich.
The dizzying heights of individual expansion that pug/tomas got to over the series has died with the 80s and thanos I guess. That scene in the colosseum raining fire raindrops still sits vividly in my mind, why the greatest hits from magician have never been made into a more expressive media is obvious financially but nags at me nonetheless.