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Rick Monday on saving the American flag: ‘I get letters every week’ https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/679039/ #AmericanFlag #Baseball #BobWatson #CenterField #country #DaveDuncan #day #Dodgers #game #GreatNumber #guy #La #LADodgers #LADodgers #letter #LosAngeles #LosAngelesDodgers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesDodgers #lot #military #MLB #OtherPeople #RickMonday #year

Rick Monday on saving the American flag: ‘I get letters every week’ https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/679039/ #AmericanFlag #Baseball #BobWatson #CenterField #country #DaveDuncan #day #Dodgers #game #GreatNumber #guy #La #LADodgers #LADodgers #letter #LosAngeles #LosAngelesDodgers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesDodgers #lot #military #MLB #OtherPeople #RickMonday #year

Today in Chicago White Sox History: November 18 https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/438884/ #1958 #1976 #1997 #Baseball #BillVeeck #ChadKreuter #Chicago #ChicagoWhiteSox #ChicagoWhiteSoxHistory #ChicagoWhiteSoxRoster #ChicagoWhiteSox #ChrisCleamons #ChuckMcElroy #DaveDuncan #HankGreenberg #JorgeFabergas #MLB #PatKelly #TodayInWhiteSoxHistory #TonyLaRussa #TonyPhillips #WhiteSox #WhiteSoxExecutives #WhiteSox

Today in Chicago White Sox History: November 18 https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/438884/ #1958 #1976 #1997 #Baseball #BillVeeck #ChadKreuter #Chicago #ChicagoWhiteSox #ChicagoWhiteSoxHistory #ChicagoWhiteSoxRoster #ChicagoWhiteSox #ChrisCleamons #ChuckMcElroy #DaveDuncan #HankGreenberg #JorgeFabergas #MLB #PatKelly #TodayInWhiteSoxHistory #TonyLaRussa #TonyPhillips #WhiteSox #WhiteSoxExecutives #WhiteSox

Today in Chicago White Sox History: November 1 https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/412392/ #1946 #1950 #2016 #2018 #Baseball #BillVeeck #Chicago #ChicagoWhiteSox #ChicagoWhiteSoxHistory #ChicagoWhiteSoxRoster #ChicagoWhiteSox #DaveDuncan #JerryReinsdorf #KenHarrelson #LukeAppling #MannyBañuelos #MLB #TodayInWhiteSoxHistory #TonyLaRussa #WhiteSox #WhiteSoxExecutives #WhiteSox

Today in Chicago White Sox History: November 1 https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/412392/ #1946 #1950 #2016 #2018 #Baseball #BillVeeck #Chicago #ChicagoWhiteSox #ChicagoWhiteSoxHistory #ChicagoWhiteSoxRoster #ChicagoWhiteSox #DaveDuncan #JerryReinsdorf #KenHarrelson #LukeAppling #MannyBañuelos #MLB #TodayInWhiteSoxHistory #TonyLaRussa #WhiteSox #WhiteSoxExecutives #WhiteSox

A Man of His Word by Dave Duncan (1990)

Perhaps the most memorable aspect of this epic fantasy series are the characters. Each is vivid and unique, and none is perfect. The reader is frequently frustrated with each of the mains, including Princess Inosolan, her stable-boy Rap, her plucky Aunt Kade, the goblin Little Chicken, the mysterious Doctor Sagorn.

But that's far from the only memorable quality. It's just very hard to talk about WHY the realm of Pandemia is so vivid and unique, without spoiling the whole story.

Like Croggon's Pelinor, Duncan's slow revealing of hidden truths about magic, place, history, and society are so interwoven and character-driven that it makes it hard to talk about A Man of His Word without spoiling the whole story. There is no separation between epic plot arcs and character-development... they are one and the same.

In a short review like this, it would be a mistake to even mention some of the things I liked, because it's all one piece. To mention one thing means to couch it in a list so that you don't know for sure what I'm emphasizing. Is it the mysterious and ancient Warlocks? Or the Imps and their Impire? Or the elves or djinn in the south? Or maybe the fairies on their fae island, or dwarves, or goblins, or trolls. And down there... there be dragons. One of these things is not like the others, though. One of these things holds the key to unlocking a world-shaking revelation, that even the gods in their very real manifestations must fear.

At least I can talk about pacing. Duncan weaves a patient web over the course of four fairly long books, always (and I mean always) revealing shocking new clues through the mouths and minds of his characters. The first book, Magic Casement, has the same pacing as The Fellowship of the Ring. It is slow, and it must be slow, and there's a reason it's slow, and if you just keep reading, that reason is revealed in your own mind as an epiphany. Only later do the characters realize what they just experienced. You're turning the page hoping they will confirm what you now think you know.

It's very satisfying when they do, and even better when Duncan subverts your expectations.

Perhaps I can say this much: Duncan's epic arcs are many, but they all lead to one place, and you only get to that place in the final chapters of the last book. When the truth is revealed, at last, it's like the keystone dropping into place, and so many unanswered questions and loose ends are resolved in a single stroke. In a single sentence.

It's masterful.

#bookstodon #DaveDuncan #AManOfHisWord

A Man of His Word by Dave Duncan (1990)

Perhaps the most memorable aspect of this epic fantasy series are the characters. Each is vivid and unique, and none is perfect. The reader is frequently frustrated with each of the mains, including Princess Inosolan, her stable-boy Rap, her plucky Aunt Kade, the goblin Little Chicken, the mysterious Doctor Sagorn.

But that's far from the only memorable quality. It's just very hard to talk about WHY the realm of Pandemia is so vivid and unique, without spoiling the whole story.

Like Croggon's Pelinor, Duncan's slow revealing of hidden truths about magic, place, history, and society are so interwoven and character-driven that it makes it hard to talk about A Man of His Word without spoiling the whole story. There is no separation between epic plot arcs and character-development... they are one and the same.

In a short review like this, it would be a mistake to even mention some of the things I liked, because it's all one piece. To mention one thing means to couch it in a list so that you don't know for sure what I'm emphasizing. Is it the mysterious and ancient Warlocks? Or the Imps and their Impire? Or the elves or djinn in the south? Or maybe the fairies on their fae island, or dwarves, or goblins, or trolls. And down there... there be dragons. One of these things is not like the others, though. One of these things holds the key to unlocking a world-shaking revelation, that even the gods in their very real manifestations must fear.

At least I can talk about pacing. Duncan weaves a patient web over the course of four fairly long books, always (and I mean always) revealing shocking new clues through the mouths and minds of his characters. The first book, Magic Casement, has the same pacing as The Fellowship of the Ring. It is slow, and it must be slow, and there's a reason it's slow, and if you just keep reading, that reason is revealed in your own mind as an epiphany. Only later do the characters realize what they just experienced. You're turning the page hoping they will confirm what you now think you know.

It's very satisfying when they do, and even better when Duncan subverts your expectations.

Perhaps I can say this much: Duncan's epic arcs are many, but they all lead to one place, and you only get to that place in the final chapters of the last book. When the truth is revealed, at last, it's like the keystone dropping into place, and so many unanswered questions and loose ends are resolved in a single stroke. In a single sentence.

It's masterful.

#bookstodon #DaveDuncan #AManOfHisWord

A Man of His Word by Dave Duncan (1990)

Perhaps the most memorable aspect of this epic fantasy series are the characters. Each is vivid and unique, and none is perfect. The reader is frequently frustrated with each of the mains, including Princess Inosolan, her stable-boy Rap, her plucky Aunt Kade, the goblin Little Chicken, the mysterious Doctor Sagorn.

But that's far from the only memorable quality. It's just very hard to talk about WHY the realm of Pandemia is so vivid and unique, without spoiling the whole story.

Like Croggon's Pelinor, Duncan's slow revealing of hidden truths about magic, place, history, and society are so interwoven and character-driven that it makes it hard to talk about A Man of His Word without spoiling the whole story. There is no separation between epic plot arcs and character-development... they are one and the same.

In a short review like this, it would be a mistake to even mention some of the things I liked, because it's all one piece. To mention one thing means to couch it in a list so that you don't know for sure what I'm emphasizing. Is it the mysterious and ancient Warlocks? Or the Imps and their Impire? Or the elves or djinn in the south? Or maybe the fairies on their fae island, or dwarves, or goblins, or trolls. And down there... there be dragons. One of these things is not like the others, though. One of these things holds the key to unlocking a world-shaking revelation, that even the gods in their very real manifestations must fear.

At least I can talk about pacing. Duncan weaves a patient web over the course of four fairly long books, always (and I mean always) revealing shocking new clues through the mouths and minds of his characters. The first book, Magic Casement, has the same pacing as The Fellowship of the Ring. It is slow, and it must be slow, and there's a reason it's slow, and if you just keep reading, that reason is revealed in your own mind as an epiphany. Only later do the characters realize what they just experienced. You're turning the page hoping they will confirm what you now think you know.

It's very satisfying when they do, and even better when Duncan subverts your expectations.

Perhaps I can say this much: Duncan's epic arcs are many, but they all lead to one place, and you only get to that place in the final chapters of the last book. When the truth is revealed, at last, it's like the keystone dropping into place, and so many unanswered questions and loose ends are resolved in a single stroke. In a single sentence.

It's masterful.

#bookstodon #DaveDuncan #AManOfHisWord

A Man of His Word by Dave Duncan (1990)

Perhaps the most memorable aspect of this epic fantasy series are the characters. Each is vivid and unique, and none is perfect. The reader is frequently frustrated with each of the mains, including Princess Inosolan, her stable-boy Rap, her plucky Aunt Kade, the goblin Little Chicken, the mysterious Doctor Sagorn.

But that's far from the only memorable quality. It's just very hard to talk about WHY the realm of Pandemia is so vivid and unique, without spoiling the whole story.

Like Croggon's Pelinor, Duncan's slow revealing of hidden truths about magic, place, history, and society are so interwoven and character-driven that it makes it hard to talk about A Man of His Word without spoiling the whole story. There is no separation between epic plot arcs and character-development... they are one and the same.

In a short review like this, it would be a mistake to even mention some of the things I liked, because it's all one piece. To mention one thing means to couch it in a list so that you don't know for sure what I'm emphasizing. Is it the mysterious and ancient Warlocks? Or the Imps and their Impire? Or the elves or djinn in the south? Or maybe the fairies on their fae island, or dwarves, or goblins, or trolls. And down there... there be dragons. One of these things is not like the others, though. One of these things holds the key to unlocking a world-shaking revelation, that even the gods in their very real manifestations must fear.

At least I can talk about pacing. Duncan weaves a patient web over the course of four fairly long books, always (and I mean always) revealing shocking new clues through the mouths and minds of his characters. The first book, Magic Casement, has the same pacing as The Fellowship of the Ring. It is slow, and it must be slow, and there's a reason it's slow, and if you just keep reading, that reason is revealed in your own mind as an epiphany. Only later do the characters realize what they just experienced. You're turning the page hoping they will confirm what you now think you know.

It's very satisfying when they do, and even better when Duncan subverts your expectations.

Perhaps I can say this much: Duncan's epic arcs are many, but they all lead to one place, and you only get to that place in the final chapters of the last book. When the truth is revealed, at last, it's like the keystone dropping into place, and so many unanswered questions and loose ends are resolved in a single stroke. In a single sentence.

It's masterful.

#bookstodon #DaveDuncan #AManOfHisWord

A Man of His Word by Dave Duncan (1990)

Perhaps the most memorable aspect of this epic fantasy series are the characters. Each is vivid and unique, and none is perfect. The reader is frequently frustrated with each of the mains, including Princess Inosolan, her stable-boy Rap, her plucky Aunt Kade, the goblin Little Chicken, the mysterious Doctor Sagorn.

But that's far from the only memorable quality. It's just very hard to talk about WHY the realm of Pandemia is so vivid and unique, without spoiling the whole story.

Like Croggon's Pelinor, Duncan's slow revealing of hidden truths about magic, place, history, and society are so interwoven and character-driven that it makes it hard to talk about A Man of His Word without spoiling the whole story. There is no separation between epic plot arcs and character-development... they are one and the same.

In a short review like this, it would be a mistake to even mention some of the things I liked, because it's all one piece. To mention one thing means to couch it in a list so that you don't know for sure what I'm emphasizing. Is it the mysterious and ancient Warlocks? Or the Imps and their Impire? Or the elves or djinn in the south? Or maybe the fairies on their fae island, or dwarves, or goblins, or trolls. And down there... there be dragons. One of these things is not like the others, though. One of these things holds the key to unlocking a world-shaking revelation, that even the gods in their very real manifestations must fear.

At least I can talk about pacing. Duncan weaves a patient web over the course of four fairly long books, always (and I mean always) revealing shocking new clues through the mouths and minds of his characters. The first book, Magic Casement, has the same pacing as The Fellowship of the Ring. It is slow, and it must be slow, and there's a reason it's slow, and if you just keep reading, that reason is revealed in your own mind as an epiphany. Only later do the characters realize what they just experienced. You're turning the page hoping they will confirm what you now think you know.

It's very satisfying when they do, and even better when Duncan subverts your expectations.

Perhaps I can say this much: Duncan's epic arcs are many, but they all lead to one place, and you only get to that place in the final chapters of the last book. When the truth is revealed, at last, it's like the keystone dropping into place, and so many unanswered questions and loose ends are resolved in a single stroke. In a single sentence.

It's masterful.

#bookstodon #DaveDuncan #AManOfHisWord