Comments on: The obviousness of it

By: sauegjeteren

sauegjeteren — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:43:48 +0000

Oh yeah, I was rather upset myself when I realised who he was. Odin was obvious, and so should Loki been. Sigh…

Damn. Now I want to read it as well.

By: Loki

Loki — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:45:39 +0000

He’s snuck in too early, you see. Low Key appears before any of the other gods, before you as the reader start thinking “aha, this is a supernatural one” whenever a new character shows up. To put it simply, he shows up *before* Odin. And then forgotten about for half the book. Which is a really, really clever ploy to keep the mind from pondering the nature of his character as one reads.

By: Terje Phlegmont Mendoza

Terje Phlegmont Mendoza — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:11:41 +0000

Yeah.

Also, I blame Gaiman. He made Odin so bloody obvious, I never even considered the option of Low Key being a god.

By: Loki

Loki — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:28:07 +0000

I think it’d be way more obvious if I’d read it as an audio-book, said out loud “Low Key” is way more obvious….

By: Lotta

Lotta — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:25:07 +0000

In related new, Scott Lynch has a cat named Loki

And, yeah, I didn’t catch that either…

By: Loki

Loki — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:15:02 +0000

Yeah, no literature has ever embarrased me as much as not getting that hint.

I actually suspected he was Loki ’cause I was basically reading the book going “where is Loki? :D” and hoping to find him. But at no point did the actual obvious hints, such as the hair or his gorram name, come through to me. O.o

By: Terje Phlegmont Mendoza

Terje Phlegmont Mendoza — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:54:12 +0000

Oh, Gods, he even has a “scarred smile”. XD

By: Terje Phlegmont Mendoza

Terje Phlegmont Mendoza — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:51:53 +0000

In other words, it only took me half a day to surrender my first attempt at reading LotR in four or five years. After “Tigana” — the freshness, the quality, the brainspanking sentimentality of it — LotR seemed dull, worn-out, and altogether not very appealing.

So I though, “Fuck it,” threw the book away (or, not really, as it’s a rather nice copy that my sister gave me for Christmas; it was more like putting it gently aside than throwing it, then, I guess), and went off in search of my sister’s copy of “The Lies of Locke Lamora”.

However, in the same pillar of books that TLoLL is stored, she also kept some other things. At the first glance of Terry Pratchett’s “The Light Fantastic” — which I haven’t read in six years or so — all thoughts of TLoLL were forgotten. But mere nanoseconds later, even my dreams of Discworld were blasted into oblivion, as my eyes fell upon “American Gods”.

It really is a shame when my sister brings better fantasy novels with her back home for the holiday, that I do myself. Even though at the moment, nothing can really compare to “Tigana”.

Oh well. Off to Shadow, Low Key, Wednesday and the rest for an hour or two before bedtime.