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Robin Hobb Bringing Fitz and the Fool back :)

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    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Yep, this was revealed a good few months ago when someone accidentally put up the title on Amazon. Hobb then had to go public saying it was true - she had originally been planning on keeping it quiet longer.
    I've still one more of the Rainwild Chronicles to read and then I'll be in position for this!


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    Grassey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Grassey


    I'm about halfway through it now, ah its good to have Fitz back and on form!


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    p38
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭p38


    Excellent news missed fitz. Will have to root out the first books and read again.


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    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    The initial trilogy is amazing but the follow up Tawny Man trilogy is the real star i think. The way she so masterfully wraps it all up..and theres so many threads to tie up..its amazing..she's such a great writer..


    I ordered signed copies of the Farseer trilogy off some bookshop in Seattle, the autographs are cool but the covers are weirdly horrific..


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    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Grassey wrote: »
    I'm about halfway through it now, ah its good to have Fitz back and on form!
    Wait - what? How do you have a copy already?!


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    p38
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭p38


    After Tawny man series never got round to reading the liveship traders series meant to start it but got side tracked with Wheel of time and malazan book of the fallen series.


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    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Grassey wrote: »
    I'm about halfway through it now, ah its good to have Fitz back and on form!

    ????????????????

    you have it already????

    how?? where???


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    Grassey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Grassey


    Found a copy of epub online earlier in the week. Assumed it'd already been released.


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    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,926 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    I really, really hated how the Tawny Man trilogy ended.
    Fitz goes off with Molly who he hasn't had a relationship with in over 20 years when I think Hobb should have have the guts to have him ride off into the sunset with the Fool.


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    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    doing it the way she did
    leave sit open for the Fool to return from his quest to discover his people/roots and also leaves it open for a bigger set up..It would be impossible to motivate Fitz to ever get involved again in anything to do with the crown, the only impetus for that would be for his family to come under threat or for nettle, his daughter, to be called to serve as monarch. I dont know if thats whats happenning but thats where i think it's going


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    Jasnah
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭Jasnah


    New book is some excellent stuff imo.


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    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    ????


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    Morag
    Registered Users Posts: 8,423 ✭✭✭Morag


    very strange


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    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,865 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Yep, looks like its been leaked from a quick Google. Im going to wait until I have the three of them, sick of starting series and not having the next book to hand when I finish.


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    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,988 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    For those of you who are reading it, maybe think about buying it once it's officially released. A writer like Hobb would earn nothing like TV/film actors whose work you might also "source" and, if a fan, she'll deserve the few euro from you.


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    Jasnah
    Registered Users Posts: 90 ✭✭Jasnah


    She'll certainly get it. :)


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    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    would you look at that...wonder how that got out


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    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Yet another nights sleep stolen by Fitz and the fool.

    That was amazin :)


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    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,865 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Does it end on a cliffhanger or could it stand on its own?


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    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    It's definitely a cliff hanger..i think you really would have to have read the previous books too for full effect but my mate loved it and he hadnt, and she explains previous rlelvant events really well anyways..

    deadly book.


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    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    *first in a trilogy it seems..


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    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,865 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Yeah I knew that but sometimes you can get away with it, wont be bothering so, probably be 4 or 5 years before I get to read it, ah well, thanks for the info.


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    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Well the original trilogy and the follow up trilogy are absolutely must reads. I'd recommend them to anyone who loves an intriguing compelling read..


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    prq
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭prq


    Interesting, I found the first trilogy OK, although I felt the ending of the 3rd book was quite disappointing and rushed, particularly after the last third of the book seemed to drag on forever. Maybe I'll give this new one a go.


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    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    have you read the tawny man trilogy?(it was the follow up set a good few years later) it winds everything up beautifully.


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    prq
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭prq


    david75 wrote: »
    have you read the tawny man trilogy?(it was the follow up set a good few years later) it winds everything up beautifully.

    I haven't, but unless it's a completely different pace, I'm not sure I'd enjoy it. I'll keep an eye out for it though! :)


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    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    It is, and it isn't..it's a lot better in some peoples eyes.


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    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 9,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    p38 wrote: »
    .....never got round to reading the liveship traders series meant to start it but got side tracked with Wheel of time....series.
    That's some 'sidetrack'!!! :D


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    p38
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭p38


    Tenger wrote: »
    That's some 'sidetrack'!!! :D

    Still reading book 14 its well meh. Really want to get into the forgotten realms Dark elf series any-good?


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    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 9,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    p38 wrote: »
    Still reading book 14 its well meh. Really want to get into the forgotten realms Dark elf series any-good?

    Ah, an old guilty pleasure for me. Read most of them. They are repetitive but if you ever played D&D you will enjoy them. Can't remember how good the original trilogy was as I read it over 20 years ago.


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