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Question about Nightworld (Spoilers!) - RootsReggae - 07-15-2011
portchy79 Wrote:thank you! Think i am right in saying that the sword maker (forgotten his name, and am too comfy to get up and get by the sword from the bookcase) added the steel to it, and yeah, the nuclear blast melted it away, but not the special metal (allyium?). Guess we will have to wait and see how fpw approaches the update (nightworld was my first every fpw book, and remains by far my favourite).
Thanks for the welcome- have been reading the forum for a while, but never got round to actually joining to recently!
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Question about Nightworld (Spoilers!) - WillaR13 - 07-26-2011
I read Nightworld before I read any of the other Adversary Cycle books because that was the way I got them out of the Library. I love that book just the way it is! I honestly read the series backwards and when I bought the four originals, I almost didn't buy the Tomb because I liked it the least of all the books.
Part of my dislike was the ever annoying Gia and her "holier than thou" attituded. She was so self involved and seemed to love only Vicky but not half as much as she loved herself. She "looked down" on Jack but certainly used him when it suited her like when she needed to find Vicky's aunts and then protect Vicky herself from the Rakoshi.
I never understood what Jack saw in her, but then men don't always think clearly with their brains. Now remember this is the original Tomb and the original Nightworld I am talking about here.
I began reading the new "Jack" stories and was unsettled by the big changes. I know that the old scene from Nightworld where the Covair convertable top is slashed can't possibly happen because Jack no longer owns "Ralph". What a shame, I used to have a Covair and I could relate.
I truly don't like the "spear can have no branches" theme and I especially dislike the addition of the "Lady".
I want to see Glaeken as the noble but often weary warrior as he takes up the sword yet again to fight against Rasalom and the intrusion of the Otherness. I think one of the most poignant scenes in the original Nightworld is of Glaken striding back out into the world, again made imortal, with his red hair flying about his head and the sword that can kill Rasalom held high in his hand. He is truly the warrior to end all wars. Jack would just be a drab brown "everyman". The invisible Repairman he has always been. Jack fights in the dark all the while trying not to be seen or recognized. Glaeken fights in the light with the sun at his back. His strength and weaknesses are known to his enemy and he doesn't skulk in shadows.
Then there is the now imortal Glaeken sitting by his beloved Magda, crushed by her Alzeimer's Disease, but true to the love that has sustained them both for more than 50 years. He is gently feeding her.
And beneath their feet, in the apartment directly below, a young red-haired man with an ageless thirty-five-year-old body was spoon-feeding applesauce to the twisted, feebleminded woman he loved so dearly and had hoped to grow old with. (Nightworld - 1993)
I know there must be numerous changes in the story to fit the new background lines, but I am sad for this. I know I will read the last two books "The Dark AT The End" and the new version of "Nightworld" but I also know that I won't enjoy the new Nightworld as much as I did the original.
Question about Nightworld (Spoilers!) - Lisa - 07-26-2011
Welcome to the board, Willa.
I don't think that Jack will take over Glaeken's role in Nightworld. I do think he'll have a larger part in the fight, but I can't imagine him wielding the sword the way Glaeken does.
Question about Nightworld (Spoilers!) - WillaR13 - 07-27-2011
Lisa - Thank you for the welcome!
I am probably too hard on Jack and his new role. I know that the original Nightworld had supernatural beings (the little people who forged the sword) but the new story line has far too many for my taste.
I,too, wonder what role that the Katana will play in the new Nightworld. I did like the idea that Glaeken had been the Gaijin who had asked Masamune to refashion his sword so many years ago.
Perhaps a suspension of all ideas from the first Nightworld will be needed to read and enjoy the new refashioned model.
Only time and Mr. Wilson will tell.
Question about Nightworld (Spoilers!) - Tony H - 07-27-2011
Hey Willar! Welcome to the board! I have only read the original paperback from the 90s so I can't wait to see what the revision holds. I do not foresee Jack taking up the sword to defeat Rasalom, the ending as it was written was EPIC in my opinion. When the words "LIGHT" appeared when the hilt met the blade I got goosebumps.
I am such a nerd.
Question about Nightworld (Spoilers!) - rjack_fan - 07-27-2011
Welcome! I think you'll find that not matter what opinion you have about events in one of the books, there are people here eager to discuss those points. If you want to discuss something in particular from you posted, please feel free to start a new thread as some members are not reading this thread due to the spoilers.