(urth) Latro Thoughts

[Sergei SOLOVIEV]

Dear Antonin, and All -

just to share my impressions, I was greatly impressed by first two books 
(Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete), and was
waiting with impatience for Soldier of Sidon, but in the end was rather 
depressed by it - my overall impression
is that the ending of Soldier of Arete is great, I think that Latro in 
some sense wins against these "petty" gods in spite
of his injured memory - and he goes home! There are also other great 
pages in the first two books (e.g., the
meeting with Proserpina, the falanga's attacks in the end of the 
"Soldier of the Mist"). But the third book was a sad conclusion, because we
see that Latro failed with his plan to find a cure at home, and his 
adventures in Egypt and in black Africa look as a slow
drowning into chaos - his meeting with the Seven Lions tribe  is a sad 
story etc -

Regards -

Sergei Soloviev

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> "Does the series conclude with S.o.Sidon?" -- That depends on whether 
> Wolfe writes another one or not. The series is open-ended.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Antonin Scriabin 
> <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com <mailto:kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I had been putting off the Latro books for a while so that I would
>     always have an unread Wolfe series to look forward to, but my
>     curiosity has finally gotten the better of me.  I am nearly done
>     with /Soldier of the Mist, /and have been enjoying it.  It has a
>     number of parallels with the /Long Sun /books, such as the
>     (apparent) reality of gods, detailed discussions of blood
>     sacrifice, a just-outside-of-view threat from non-humans like
>     vampires and werewolves, etc.  It actually seems like a prototype
>     version of what became /The Book of the New Sun/; a central male
>     hero suffers some kind of mental "event" (on the one hand, severe
>     brain trauma, and on the other, enlightenment) that opens the door
>     to gods (or to what appear as gods).  In both works, these gods
>     are petty, prone to infighting, and in many ways offer more
>     questions than answers to the hero.  He has only been mentioned
>     twice so far, but I also feel that the Unknown God / Outsider
>     similarity can't be a coincidence.  Anyways, I know that you guys
>     have all probably been over these topics plenty, I just wanted to
>     air a few thoughts.  I do have one question: does the series
>     conclude with /Soldier of Sidon/?  I would, of course, like to
>     avoid spoilers, I am mostly interested in the possibility of more
>     Latro novels.  Thanks!
>
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