Intro, questions, comments
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queensthiefI have just joined Live Journal and have no idea what I'm doing, so please bear with me if I commit any egregious idiocies. I tried posting this yesterday and it doesn't seem to have shown up, so I'll try again. Watch it magically turn into a double post.
I've only just read the books for the first time, starting last Thursday. I read KING first, because I was looking over the new books I had ordered for my library and it was one of them. Many of the reviewers on Amazon, for example, said the books should be read in order, but I can testify to the fact that one can easily be hooked by KING without having read the others. I think I enjoyed it all the more because I didn't know any more than Costis did, and had to figure out with him what was going on, and decide whether his interpretation of something was the right one. Granted, reading KING meant that I knew all sorts of spoilers for THIEF and QUEEN; but with books this good *how* something happens is just as important as *what* happens.
I couldn't get my hands on QUEEN until yesterday, but I had gone hunting online and come across this - forum? community? however one describes it, and enjoyed reading the discussions regarding KING and THIEF.
A couple of questions that have been nagging at me (and if they've already been discussed, I apologize; I didn't come across those discussions as I wended my way through the posts):
What do you all think that Eugenides told Dite in the maze? We're told that he warned Dite to warn his brother, but how much of what was going on did he tell Dite? "I love the Queen?" "The Queen loves me?" "I'm not actually quite such a useless, feeble nit as everyone thinks?" "I'm planning to destroy your House because it's a danger to the Throne?" "Boy, is your song ever inaccurate, and let me tell you in complete detail how inaccurate it is?"
The new covers on the books are beautiful; but just exactly how does someone hide a rock the size of a bagel in the top of his braid without anyone's noticing it?
Am I over-interpreting when I think that the line in chapter 2 of QUEEN: "She had to consider that Eugenides, though he'd caused her no harm beyond stealing something she hadn't known she possessed..." could easily, even at that point, apply not only to Hamiathes's Gift, but to her heart? (Or, alternately, is that one of those things where everybody's going to look at me, roll their eyes, and say, "Well, duhhhh...?")
At what point did Attolia go from wanting to keep the sovereignty of her country for herself, king or no king, to wanting Eugenides to be king in fact as well as in name?
At the beginning of KING, after the getting-Costis-drunk scene, Eugenides asks Attolia if she still wishes she'd hanged him. She says, "Men's necks have been broken by a single blow." What's she talking about? Is she saying Costis could easily have killed him?
Brilliant observations that I've made that are probably either way out in left field or have already been discussed to death:
In QUEEN, Eddis tells Eugenides, "Steal peace." He literally does - he steals Irene, who is rather bitter about the fact that her name means "peace". She also tells him to steal her more time. If the next book introduces somebody whose name is Chronos, I know who's next in line to be kidnaped!
After Relius's arrest, the queen is in her room, silent, and the king joins her, "silent as sunlight on stone." In QUEEN Attolia thinks back to the day she became queen in fact as well as in name, and that she "was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after." So when I read this I was thinking of Attolia, cold, stony, and Eugenides, bringing warmth and light to her...
I found it rather endearing that Attolia had absolutely no idea that Dite was in love with her, and thought Eugenides must be joking when he told her about it, and was blushing at the very thought.
I'll stop now. If I've done this completely wrong, please let me know! I'm used to posting boards and lists, but not live journals.
Leslie, who chose aged_crone as her user name because she's in her 40's and everybody else here seems to be in college at the very most...
I've only just read the books for the first time, starting last Thursday. I read KING first, because I was looking over the new books I had ordered for my library and it was one of them. Many of the reviewers on Amazon, for example, said the books should be read in order, but I can testify to the fact that one can easily be hooked by KING without having read the others. I think I enjoyed it all the more because I didn't know any more than Costis did, and had to figure out with him what was going on, and decide whether his interpretation of something was the right one. Granted, reading KING meant that I knew all sorts of spoilers for THIEF and QUEEN; but with books this good *how* something happens is just as important as *what* happens.
I couldn't get my hands on QUEEN until yesterday, but I had gone hunting online and come across this - forum? community? however one describes it, and enjoyed reading the discussions regarding KING and THIEF.
A couple of questions that have been nagging at me (and if they've already been discussed, I apologize; I didn't come across those discussions as I wended my way through the posts):
What do you all think that Eugenides told Dite in the maze? We're told that he warned Dite to warn his brother, but how much of what was going on did he tell Dite? "I love the Queen?" "The Queen loves me?" "I'm not actually quite such a useless, feeble nit as everyone thinks?" "I'm planning to destroy your House because it's a danger to the Throne?" "Boy, is your song ever inaccurate, and let me tell you in complete detail how inaccurate it is?"
The new covers on the books are beautiful; but just exactly how does someone hide a rock the size of a bagel in the top of his braid without anyone's noticing it?
Am I over-interpreting when I think that the line in chapter 2 of QUEEN: "She had to consider that Eugenides, though he'd caused her no harm beyond stealing something she hadn't known she possessed..." could easily, even at that point, apply not only to Hamiathes's Gift, but to her heart? (Or, alternately, is that one of those things where everybody's going to look at me, roll their eyes, and say, "Well, duhhhh...?")
At what point did Attolia go from wanting to keep the sovereignty of her country for herself, king or no king, to wanting Eugenides to be king in fact as well as in name?
At the beginning of KING, after the getting-Costis-drunk scene, Eugenides asks Attolia if she still wishes she'd hanged him. She says, "Men's necks have been broken by a single blow." What's she talking about? Is she saying Costis could easily have killed him?
Brilliant observations that I've made that are probably either way out in left field or have already been discussed to death:
In QUEEN, Eddis tells Eugenides, "Steal peace." He literally does - he steals Irene, who is rather bitter about the fact that her name means "peace". She also tells him to steal her more time. If the next book introduces somebody whose name is Chronos, I know who's next in line to be kidnaped!
After Relius's arrest, the queen is in her room, silent, and the king joins her, "silent as sunlight on stone." In QUEEN Attolia thinks back to the day she became queen in fact as well as in name, and that she "was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after." So when I read this I was thinking of Attolia, cold, stony, and Eugenides, bringing warmth and light to her...
I found it rather endearing that Attolia had absolutely no idea that Dite was in love with her, and thought Eugenides must be joking when he told her about it, and was blushing at the very thought.
I'll stop now. If I've done this completely wrong, please let me know! I'm used to posting boards and lists, but not live journals.
Leslie, who chose aged_crone as her user name because she's in her 40's and everybody else here seems to be in college at the very most...
