Fool's Fate

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Had this on my bookshelf for quite a while now, it was in my days as part of a mail order book club and haven't dusted it off for a future read.

So opinions please, worth taking off the shelf for a read?
 
Have you read any of Hobb's other books?? if you have and enjoyed them get the other two in the series before reading Fools Fate, they are, Fool's Errand and The Golden Fool.If you haven't yet read The Farseer Trilogy then I'd suggest you try to get a hold of it before starting on the Tawny Man series
 
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You would be completley lost if you tried reading just reading Fools Fate...its the last one in the series you would have no background on chracters,you would be confused about what the wit and skill were.
 
I'm completely lost normally anyway, but thanks for the advice, I'll try one you've suggested at some point. :)
 
YES! READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But there is no point to it if you havent read any of the others first..Its the last of 6 books!

(I know, I know there is the liveship traders set but im talking specificaly about the farseer saga for those of you who were about to correct me :) )

Nixie is right. Start with the 'Farseer Trilogy' then go 'Tawny Man' which includes this book. 'Fools Fate' is an emotional climax, to read it out of sequence will do it no justice whatsoever.
 
yay!

*whisper mode on*
Mwuhahahahahaaaaaaa!, Another one has crossed over! mwuhahahahaaa!
*whisper mode off*
 
Don't plan anything else to do once you begin the book. Believe me, you'll get hooked in no time.

Enyoy the reading ! :)
 
Teir said:
YES! READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But there is no point to it if you havent read any of the others first..Its the last of 6 books!

(I know, I know there is the liveship traders set but im talking specificaly about the farseer saga for those of you who were about to correct me :) )

Nixie is right. Start with the 'Farseer Trilogy' then go 'Tawny Man' which includes this book. 'Fools Fate' is an emotional climax, to read it out of sequence will do it no justice whatsoever.
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I'm rarely wrong Teir:D or should that be right:confused:
If you notice I never mentioned Liveships either
 
yeah, you need to read the others. and even then, fool's fate, its a bit of a let down. tho it has the sort of ending that i wanted (between teh main characters) it then has a lot of pointless stuff at the end that really ruined the book for me. amrriages and babies to lots of pointless characters. *shrug* its a good read, if you ignore the end :) but its an end in itself to the series. :0
 
SPOILERS - KIND OFF:>

????
but didnt you like hearing what happened to everyone afterwards faery queen? Personaly i felt it capped off the story better :)
 
Teir said:
SPOILERS - KIND OFF:>

????
but didnt you like hearing what happened to everyone afterwards faery queen? Personaly i felt it capped off the story better :)
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I agree wholeheartedly with Teir! I really enjoyed all of Hobb's books involving Fitz & the Fool. I just wish they never ended - :(

I thought the ending was justified, she had made it quite clear that she wasn't going to write anymore stories involving these two characters and I think it summed everything up nicely for the reader who knew there was to be no more after Fools Fate!

xx
 
noooo!
see, i was ok with the fool-fitz ending. that worked fine, that was hoqw i wanted it to be (if they couldn't be lovers) but i couldn't stand 100 pages or so of, so and so got married and had a kid, and so and so married someone else and everyone was vomitily happy and vomit vomit. i found it so contrived. i didn't care less about mollys stupid children and what they did. i didn't care less about dutiful having kids with that annoying woman (it annoyed me that he so convienanlty fell in love with the woman he was going to have to marry)

it went on too long. there was no reason to ever think there was going to be a book after the farseer triliogy. i think robin herself didn't even know (that's the what i felt she meant when she spoke at a signing about it) and that ending was, he lost everything, and we had no idea what was to come. and THAT ending worked fine! i just felt this ott use of happy marriages and breeding among characters who weren't even characters, just names, was too much. for me the series was about fitz and the fool and i would have far rather it ended when the fool left. the rest was unneccessary and i couldn't stand to read it properly. i had to skim it was so annoying to me!

not to mention i didn't really like the way fitz and molly got back together. im a cynic, yes. i hate romantic happy endings too. i just felt that i would have much rather had a realistic awkardness between fitz, molly and burrich, and sadness of the fool leaving, rather than a conveinant death so that fitz can get his girl, and tonnes of pointless marriages and babies.

can't abide the babies!
 
lol:D
fair enough if thats your opinion:)

I'm going to stick by mine that it is more satisfying when then author ties off all the strings of the story at the end.
 
Teir said:
lol:D
fair enough if thats your opinion:)

I'm going to stick by mine that it is more satisfying when then author ties off all the strings of the story at the end.
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My thoughts exactly Teir :D All of the books have contained brilliant stories and marvellous characters. Couldn't help but go and read the next in each series!

I am sure you will enjoy the books Omega...:)
 
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