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Besides the mere graphic violence, Bakker has a way of making things psychologically disturbing. For example, it's weird and scary that the Sranc have beautiful
by asdfasgasdgasdg 7y ago
Besides the mere graphic violence, Bakker has a way of making things psychologically disturbing. For example, it's weird and scary that the Sranc have beautiful faces. Obviously the transgressions in their behavior are disturbing (they don't just want to kill you -- in fact, they'd prefer if you lived, so they can do unspeakable things to your body after subduing you). The orcs are just an ugly army of big brutish bad guys. But they fight with the same tactics as any other medieval army, at least to my recollection of the LOTR books. The Sranc (and Wracu and Bashrag etc.) are something different.
- n4r9 7y agoAbsolutely. It's extremely psychologically compelling: the porcelain features, the "black seed", the imagery of thousands of screaming humanoid beasts hurling themselves ravenously at a shield wall. imo the series (at least the first half) is eventually going to be seen as a defining piece of modern fiction.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoAchamian vs. the Spires in Sauglish will go down as one of the greatest magical fight scenes in the history of the written word for me.
- raizinho 7y agoYou have the wrong library. That fight was in Iothiah (the Sareotic Library).
- asdfasgasdgasdg 7y agoOh right. All these libraries starting with the word S.