Hey there. I picked up Gateways on a whim at the grocery store last month and loved it. I've since started making my way through the rest of the Repairman Jack books. I've finished The Tomb, Legacies, and I've just started Conspiracies. Loving them bunches.
I have a question about The Tomb though:
What is the significance of the title? I don't remember a tomb playing into the story at all. The home of the rakoshi in India was more temple than tomb. The ship was more of a hideout. Is "the tomb" some subtle reference that completely escaped me?
I have a question about The Tomb though:
What is the significance of the title? I don't remember a tomb playing into the story at all. The home of the rakoshi in India was more temple than tomb. The ship was more of a hideout. Is "the tomb" some subtle reference that completely escaped me?
Mark S. Wrote:What is the significance of the title? I don't remember a tomb playing into the story at all. The home of the rakoshi in India was more temple than tomb. The ship was more of a hideout. Is "the tomb" some subtle reference that completely escaped me?
The wisdom of publishers, it was supposed to be titled Rakoshi, but they didn't think anyone would get the title so they changed it, although you can now get Rakoshi under it's original title.
Welcome to the board, btw. Let me be the first to say don't limit yourself to the RJ/Adversary Cycle books; all of his books are worth a read or two, or three...
Scott
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Mark S. Wrote:Hey there. I picked up Gateways on a whim at the grocery store last month and loved it. I've since started making my way through the rest of the Repairman Jack books. I've finished The Tomb, Legacies, and I've just started Conspiracies. Loving them bunches.
I have a question about The Tomb though:
What is the significance of the title? I don't remember a tomb playing into the story at all. The home of the rakoshi in India was more temple than tomb. The ship was more of a hideout. Is "the tomb" some subtle reference that completely escaped me?
Welcome, Mark! You've got a lot of fantastic reading ahead of you.
Mark S. Wrote:Hey there. I picked up Gateways on a whim at the grocery store last month and loved it. I've since started making my way through the rest of the Repairman Jack books. I've finished The Tomb, Legacies, and I've just started Conspiracies. Loving them bunches.Check out the FAQ here: http://webpages.charter.net/mjturman/fpwfaq/index.htm
I have a question about The Tomb though:
What is the significance of the title? I don't remember a tomb playing into the story at all. The home of the rakoshi in India was more temple than tomb. The ship was more of a hideout. Is "the tomb" some subtle reference that completely escaped me?
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Section III - 2a
Welcome to the board.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Hi. Hope you have a good time reading FPW's stuff. It's awesome.
Stephanie
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"Oh, and like you've never had a cranky day?"
Mark S. Wrote:Hey there. I picked up Gateways on a whim at the grocery store last month and loved it. I've since started making my way through the rest of the Repairman Jack books. I've finished The Tomb, Legacies, and I've just started Conspiracies. Loving them bunches.
I have a question about The Tomb though:
What is the significance of the title? I don't remember a tomb playing into the story at all. The home of the rakoshi in India was more temple than tomb. The ship was more of a hideout. Is "the tomb" some subtle reference that completely escaped me?
Welcome to the board, Mark S!
I highly recommend "The Haunted Air". You'll love it!
And Black Wind and Midnight Mass.
Mark S. Wrote:Hey there. I picked up Gateways on a whim at the grocery store last month and loved it. I've since started making my way through the rest of the Repairman Jack books. I've finished The Tomb, Legacies, and I've just started Conspiracies. Loving them bunches.Depending on how you look at it, "The Tomb" could be a referance to the ship itself. If you remember, the nest of rakoshi was bolwn up, along with the rest of the ship, so you could say that the ship was the rakoshi's tomb. I know that sounds far fetched but that's the thought I had when I finished the book the first time. Welcome to the board.
I have a question about The Tomb though:
What is the significance of the title? I don't remember a tomb playing into the story at all. The home of the rakoshi in India was more temple than tomb. The ship was more of a hideout. Is "the tomb" some subtle reference that completely escaped me?
:p A good horror story will keep you up at night
Jaybird, your tag reminds me of Tim Taylor from Home Improvement 
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.