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So this Tracker guy has now learned to walk across a landscape without tripping over a snake which is good, because I have a bee in my bonnet about people who can't. It was cool how it just sort of happened, yeah, Marlon James is a really good writer (who knew!). It doesn't look like Tracker's ever going to get the hang of people, though. Quote of the day: "Being a fool is a curse too."
— Feb 19, 2019 02:19PM
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Anfenwick
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Ch 4 & 5 - Well, that ravelled and unravelled fast. I’d been wondering why anyone would be comparing this book to Lord of the Rings. If LoR is so ingrained in your consciousness that you could practically recite it, there are echoes here. I think they are false echoes. For me, they were triggered by a pattern of speech, then expanded. Quote of the day: “Tell we true, delicious, delicious.”
— Feb 20, 2019 02:43PM
Anfenwick
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The moral of the story so far is that people who run off into forests without knowing anything about them are very quickly going to end up either dead or educated. Or possibly both, if it’s that kind of fantasy. Quote of the day: “The only way to inside your head is I cut open and look, or you speak it out”.
— Feb 18, 2019 01:21PM
Anfenwick
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Tracker has a very, very good sense of smell, so that like Sherlock Holmes, there's stuff he just knows. His job is finding things (or people) that are lost, and he goes about it methodically but largely amorally, as a bailiff might. On the other hand, Tracker is a hunter in a West African alternate universe so my first impression (Ch1) is that it's quite Forest of a Thousand Demons on acid.
— Feb 17, 2019 07:32AM
