Nordic Book Club : Odinsbarn

[steyyan]

Then, what is the general feeling for fifty pages and 7 chapters this week, up to and including chapter 38, 'Den evnesterke'/'Mahdissa väkevä'/'Stark i kraften'?

I followed that, which means that I'm through with Den evnesterke.

[Elenia]

Then, what is the general feeling for fifty pages and 7 chapters this week, up to and including chapter 38, 'Den evnesterke'/'Mahdissa väkevä'/'Stark i kraften'?

I followed that, which means that I'm through with Den evnesterke.

Ah, of course! That is what I meant to say. I have also read this chapter.

[Montmorency]

Keep the spoilers coming. Well, you call them spoilers; I call them comprehension assistance clues..and this is all about comprehensible input, right?

[chokofingrz]

I finished the book just now. 28 hours over 7 weeks it's taken me. Never would have thought I'd read a 1000-page Swedish fantasy novel. It was quite enjoyable, and I must refrain from dropping any spoilers. I will collect my thoughts in the next couple of days, and then have a well-deserved foray into something non-Scandinavian! Thanks all, for inspiring me to challenge myself.

[daegga]

I finished the book just now. 28 hours over 7 weeks it's taken me. Never would have thought I'd read a 1000-page Swedish fantasy novel. It was quite enjoyable, and I must refrain from dropping any spoilers. I will collect my thoughts in the next couple of days, and then have a well-deserved foray into something non-Scandinavian! Thanks all, for inspiring me to challenge myself.

Such self-discipline. How can you not immediately want to read the rest of the trilogy? :)

[Brun Ugle]

I finished the book just now. 28 hours over 7 weeks it's taken me. Never would have thought I'd read a 1000-page Swedish fantasy novel. It was quite enjoyable, and I must refrain from dropping any spoilers. I will collect my thoughts in the next couple of days, and then have a well-deserved foray into something non-Scandinavian! Thanks all, for inspiring me to challenge myself.

Such self-discipline. How can you not immediately want to read the rest of the trilogy?

I know, right? I figured I'd read something else after finishing the first book, but I just had to keep going. I'm now in the middle of the second book and it's even better and more exciting so far than the first was. I'm well on my way to the fifty chapters a week that Elenia suggested.

[chokofingrz]

Such self-discipline. How can you not immediately want to read the rest of the trilogy?

Tempting, but then I had a crazy idea... what if I wait until I've studied Norwegian or Danish, before starting book 2?

[Elenia]

Such self-discipline. How can you not immediately want to read the rest of the trilogy?

Tempting, but then I had a crazy idea... what if I wait until I've studied Norwegian or Danish, before starting book 2?

... Or read them in one of these languages and call it study?

[Montmorency]

Such self-discipline. How can you not immediately want to read the rest of the trilogy?

Tempting, but then I had a crazy idea... what if I wait until I've studied Norwegian or Danish, before starting book 2?

... Or read them in one of these languages and call it study?

That's more or less what I'm doing.

Edit: By the way, I found this interesting review (in English), by a Norwegian, but beware, it contains what people may regard as spoilers. (But most of you are already so far through that it might not matter):

http://kingmagu.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/ ... ld-by.html

[steyyan]

Well, most of the chapters this week were mainly explanations of canon, it seems. At least we've got a clear picture of how Mannfalla is as a city. It seems like it get shittier the further away from Eisvaldr you get.

It's nice that Hirka was bright enough to see that something was off with her patient. Not bright enough though, since she did expose herself as a child of Odin one or two days later. What do you think would happen to her? Can't be anything too bad though, since we're only a little more than halfway through the first book in a triology...

Urd seems to be involved with that as well... That bloke will be in deep shit soon if he doesn't stop with all that sinister stuff.