What timing! I just finished this book earlier this week, and I’m having a book hangover. “Love is for lesser souls” broke me. I don’t know why I thought that maybe Kellhus cared for Esmenet in some small, subtle, Dunyain-weird way, but that hope was crushed. Great hearing your overview thoughts!
Tell me about it! I couldn't help myself so I immediately started the next one. 😭 Kellhuss is so tough to figure out especially without his POV chapters. One moment he seems so capable of caring for others, and then the next, pure indifference, as if he's one of the 100.
@@hewhospeaksoftales Wow! What an interesting theory! 😮 Sorweel asked Moenghus some interesting questions about whether the gods can be wrong, and whether they can be deceived. On the one hand, you have these Dunyain who have 4D-chessed the heck out of everyone’s motivatons and future actions. On the other hand, there is constant conversation about the myth of certainty. I can’t wait to see where this goes!
@@Johanna_reads That's true! I can't wait to learn more about the nature of the gods in this world, and what that means for the judging eye. The story has so many layers!
Awesome review. People reading and discovering this series always brings a smile to my face Looking forward to The Great Ordeal. That book is...something and probably my 2nd favourite of the series.
Thanks! I wish more people would give the series a chance. It's truly one of the best fantasy series that I've ever read. I'm so excited for the next two!
Awesome review my man. Inrilatas is one of my all time favorite characters. I think he is Kelhus with out restraint. I also read Men at Arms as a palate cleaner after reading TWLW. lol. The Great Ordeal is the one I still think about the most and I can't wait to hear your thoughts. I'm planning my first reread of this series before the end of the year because I feel this is a series that one can reread and find so many things they've missed after the 1st read. Cheers.
Same! I loved every single scene that Inrilatas was in. I couldn't help it, and started reading The Great Ordeal along with Men at Arms lol That's good to hear, man! I already know I'm missing quite a lot in Sorweel's chapters in TGO. 😂
Dude I always like very much your videos. You are very good to unraveling stuff that is difficult to spot. I will not spoil the series but some of your ideas are really spot on. We will see how this will turn up. You also mentioned Bakker's greatest writing skill in my opinion. His uncanny ability of choosing the perfect select words to describe stuff. Especially abstractions, immensities, dread, awe, weirdness etc. He is the master of that. Inrilatas, Nil'Giccas and the White Luck Warrior were big highlights for me in this book. Such great, original presences. Such great writing and ideas behind these three characters. I cant wait for your video of the last two books. I weird to see what details will you spot on them. They are much darker than the rest and really weird. Especially the Great Ordeal. But they are my two favourite and most powerful reading experiences
Thanks, man. I'm so excited to see how The Aspect-Emperor will end, but I'm also looking forward to reading the appendices just as much. I still read The Thousandfold Thought's appendix every now and then to refresh my memory, and I just know TUC's will be jam packed with even more history and lore.
And I think the Dunyain were a project initiated by the Arc AI as a contingency to have a group that would be easily recruitable and useful in future times when the Consult might be depleted of Inchoroo and Mangaecca
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What timing! I just finished this book earlier this week, and I’m having a book hangover. “Love is for lesser souls” broke me. I don’t know why I thought that maybe Kellhus cared for Esmenet in some small, subtle, Dunyain-weird way, but that hope was crushed. Great hearing your overview thoughts!
Tell me about it! I couldn't help myself so I immediately started the next one. 😭
Kellhuss is so tough to figure out especially without his POV chapters. One moment he seems so capable of caring for others, and then the next, pure indifference, as if he's one of the 100.
@@hewhospeaksoftales Wow! What an interesting theory! 😮 Sorweel asked Moenghus some interesting questions about whether the gods can be wrong, and whether they can be deceived. On the one hand, you have these Dunyain who have 4D-chessed the heck out of everyone’s motivatons and future actions. On the other hand, there is constant conversation about the myth of certainty. I can’t wait to see where this goes!
@@Johanna_reads That's true! I can't wait to learn more about the nature of the gods in this world, and what that means for the judging eye. The story has so many layers!
I cannot wait for your discussion with Phillip
Awesome review. People reading and discovering this series always brings a smile to my face
Looking forward to The Great Ordeal. That book is...something and probably my 2nd favourite of the series.
Thanks! I wish more people would give the series a chance. It's truly one of the best fantasy series that I've ever read.
I'm so excited for the next two!
Truth shines! I hope you join the subreddit after you finish.
Truth shines! I'll definitely go check that out after when I'm done.
Truth shines!
Awesome review my man. Inrilatas is one of my all time favorite characters. I think he is Kelhus with out restraint. I also read Men at Arms as a palate cleaner after reading TWLW. lol. The Great Ordeal is the one I still think about the most and I can't wait to hear your thoughts. I'm planning my first reread of this series before the end of the year because I feel this is a series that one can reread and find so many things they've missed after the 1st read. Cheers.
Same! I loved every single scene that Inrilatas was in. I couldn't help it, and started reading The Great Ordeal along with Men at Arms lol
That's good to hear, man! I already know I'm missing quite a lot in Sorweel's chapters in TGO. 😂
Dude I always like very much your videos. You are very good to unraveling stuff that is difficult to spot.
I will not spoil the series but some of your ideas are really spot on. We will see how this will turn up.
You also mentioned Bakker's greatest writing skill in my opinion. His uncanny ability of choosing the perfect select words to describe stuff. Especially abstractions, immensities, dread, awe, weirdness etc. He is the master of that.
Inrilatas, Nil'Giccas and the White Luck Warrior were big highlights for me in this book. Such great, original presences. Such great writing and ideas behind these three characters.
I cant wait for your video of the last two books. I weird to see what details will you spot on them. They are much darker than the rest and really weird. Especially the Great Ordeal. But they are my two favourite and most powerful reading experiences
Thanks, man. I'm so excited to see how The Aspect-Emperor will end, but I'm also looking forward to reading the appendices just as much.
I still read The Thousandfold Thought's appendix every now and then to refresh my memory, and I just know TUC's will be jam packed with even more history and lore.
Hell is real.
The gods are real.
The stakes cannot be higher.
I always assumed that the Inchoroi were us, far in the future after too much transhumanism.
And I think the Dunyain were a project initiated by the Arc AI as a contingency to have a group that would be easily recruitable and useful in future times when the Consult might be depleted of Inchoroo and Mangaecca