Opinion on Scott Baker's The Judging Eye ?
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Opinion on Scott Baker's The Judging Eye ?
In your opinion, is the new book by Scott Baker as good as the previous installments of the Prince of Nothing series? After devouring The Thousandfold Thought, I wonder what will come next after my current batch of Steven Erikson and Joe Abercrombie.
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Re: Opinion on Scott Baker's The Judging Eye ?
I thought it was good. He's opening up a new areas of metaphysics while we have crazed questing, the question of the Dunyain, and Kelhus's empire being attacked internally as it attempts a massive military campaign to stave off the rebirth of the No-God and the extermination of the human race.
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Re: Opinion on Scott Baker's The Judging Eye ?
I found it to be excellent. It's better written from a technical standpoint than many sections in his previous books (less waffling, less babbling etc'), even if it was a bit short on density of stuff happening compared to previous stuff.
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Re: Opinion on Scott Baker's The Judging Eye ?
A major improvement. We get a new, strong female character, an interesting group of people, a certain escapade in a Non-Man Mansion that will leave you going "WTF?", and considerably more knowledge about both the Nonmen and some metaphysics.
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Like any Bakker book, it leaves you with some very interesting philosophical debates over the metaphysics and magic.
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