I just finished reading The Crystal City and it left some things hanging. There was no closure with Calvin, the rystal city turns into a crystal tabernacle that doesn't even get built in the end, no writing in Taleswappers book, we never get to find out what happened with the two Crazy Christian rapists. . . Is Card writing another alvin maker book? I hope this isn't the last one. Maybe I just missed something.
Master Alvin - the Crystal City is built and destroyed, Alvin is killed, Arthur Stuart leads the people of CC across the Mizzippy and into the Red Lands to the west; Taleswapper gives the book to Arthur Stuart, and Peggy refuses to go west with them as the various parts of America plunge into war over the issue of slavery.
Now you don't have to buy the book.
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I still say you ought to include that synopsis in a preface to Seventh Son, so that people know what to expect. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Of coarse. We always look forward to your books OSC. Even if you spoil them for us here on Hatrack. Posts: 1941 | Registered: Dec 2005
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not knowing what's coming next isn't what makes us want to read these books it's the styel and talent of the writer even in interesting plot line can be destroyed by a bad writer
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In my experience, when OSC is actually pissed off, it's been unnecessary to ask if that's the case. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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I also just finished reading Crystal City, and since I knew it was based more or less around the life of Joseph Smith I knew where it was going. Plus, Peggy predicts Alvin's death in almost every single book, so it isn't a big surpise.
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Somehow, even knowing it was based on Joseph Smith's life, I still managed to delude myself into hoping that Peggy would be wrong, and he wouldn't die (at least not before the happy ending of the series). *sigh*
Of course, it's all in how you write it ... death is often not the worst thing that can happen. We managed to get through Ender's death without it feeling like such a tragedy. But if it's really based on Joseph Smith's life, it's not going to be a pleasant letting go of an old friend.... There goes that hope.
I'm glad I didn't hear the speculations about Dumbledore before I read HP6! There are some things I'd rather not know ahead of time.
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SPOILER ALERT!!! . . . I'm not sure if this is included in this topic or not, but i didn't want to start a new CC thread. i had originally read these books out of order (for reasons of availability and extreme impatience) and assumed that some of the things that have already happened at the beginning of CC would be covered in Heartfire. Upon starting the series again and reading it in order, i've become a little confused because some of these things do not occur in Heartfire, ie: meeting abe and coz, meeting jim bowie, having a baby that died, to name a few. am i just an idiot? did i miss a novel or short story somewhere? or were these first mentioned in the opening chapters of CC. i'm not criticizing, because if they are first mentioned in CC, thats great, i just want to make sure i haven't missed anything.
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The Grinning Man and Yazoo Queen, found in Legends I and Legends II respectively, edited by Robert Silverburg.
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