Daily Archives: Monday, November 29, 2010

Hot on the heels of the recently released promo photos from Entertainment Weekly, we’ve got a wonderful trailer and, as far as I know, our first real glimpse of dialogue between major characters. I’m sure I’m not the only one who got chills from Ned explaining to Bran about the execution. Joffery getting bitch-slapped by Tyrion? For that matter, the look on Tyrion’s face as several swords are levelled at him? Priceless. And who would’ve guessed, when the cast was first announced, that Mark Addy would so perfectly nail Robert Baratheon?

Nitpicks? Joffery and Dany look a little over-the-top and Ned’s a bit too stocky/powerfully built. But that’s about it.

Winter is coming, indeed.

The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan

The Great Hunt

AuthorRobert Jordan

Paperback
Pages: 705
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: November 15, 1990
ISBN-10: 0812517725
ISBN-13: 978-0812517729


Yarr! There be spoilers for the series ahead. Ye’ve been warned!

Re-reading The Eye of the World was an interesting experience, but a bit banal. You see, thanks to its small cast of characters and traditional plot, I remembered so damn much of it that there was little surprise left within its pages. A few small things here and there, some nicely veiled foreshadowing of events that won’t transpire for thousands of pages, or an odd secondary character might have slipped my memory, but, for the most part, the novel went along exactly as I remembered it.

Not so with The Great Hunt. Hurin? Verin? Ingtar? Yeah, I couldn’t’ve told you they were in the novel. Hell, I forgot that Padan Fain was such a catalyst for the whole damn chase that comprises the core of the plot! In any case, it was a welcome change from my experience with The Eye of the World and allowed me to read the novel with a bit of excitement, as I’d forgotten what lay around every corner.
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