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15 Responses to “Books Finished – Reviews To Catch Up Soon”

1. Alex C says:
   October 25th, 2007 6:51 pm

   Re. Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series.

   If you find Darken Rahl a disturbing character just wait until you get onto the next books, Stone of Tears and Blood of the Fold. With Darken Rahl defeated, a far more evil and disturbing character, Emporer Jagang takes over as ‘baddy’.

   Prepare for some truely gruesome scenes of murder, torture and rape etc. At first I was appalled by the horrific accounts and wondered if I really wanted to read on (I am quite squeamish by nature). However, I came to realise that such scenes were necessary to the plot and make the reader appreciate that such evil in life does exist and needs to be stopped at all costs.

   From book four onwards, if my memory serves me correctly, there are still accounts of atrocity but not to the same degree. All in all this series is my absolute favourite of the fantasy genre and I highly recommend it to all fantasy lovers.

   I’m waiting, partially with baited breath and partly in sadness (it will be an end of an era) for the last book in the series, due to be published on 19 November 2007. Unfortunately I will be in Australia by then but hopefully will still be able to purchase it out there.
2. Oleg Frantsuzov says:
   October 25th, 2007 8:41 pm

   You’re too damn fast. :p I’m waiting for the reviews.

   By the way, try reading Accelerando in the meantime.

   http://www.accelerando.org/
3. Chris Merriman says:
   October 28th, 2007 11:05 am

   >>Alex – I’ll be sourcing a download link for the other books soon, and look forward to reading them even more now. Thanks for taking time out from your busy emigration timetable to post a comment 🙂

   >>Oleg – I have downloaded the book and started reading it now. Unfortunately the only format Haali Reader seemed able to handle was the plain ASCII, and with the hard coded LR/CF/whatevers, it looks a little weird. Actually I’ll try it in landscape mode later, see if that helps with the flow. Thanks for the heads up on it, looks good so far. Then again uploaded kittens, lobsters and Amsterdam make a great start for any book 😉
4. Oleg Frantsuzov says:
   October 29th, 2007 5:13 am

   Especially Amsterdam, I reckon. 😉

   Trash the old Haali. The new version of AlReader (al, you know) can handle txt, fb2, html, rtf, chm and doc.

   Remember to switch the interface language to English.

   http://alreader.kms.ru/AlReader/AlReader2.CAB
5. Chris Merriman says:
   October 29th, 2007 6:46 am

   Ta for that. I had already installed a new version of haali reader a while back, but I’ll check this app out later today.
   I am currently creating a lesson plan for my English language student, but should be free later.
6. Oleg Frantsuzov says:
   October 29th, 2007 6:58 pm

   Haali is dead. I switched to AlReader a long time ago.
7. signy says:
   February 29th, 2008 10:16 pm

   How can I switch interface to English?
   This reader looks great – with hyphenation in many languages. Only Russian interface makes me problems…
8. Pretending To Be Oleg says:
   March 1st, 2008 1:17 am

   This isn’t really him, its Chris pretending to be him so he becomes subscribed to this post.
9. ChrisM says:
   March 1st, 2008 1:38 am

   >>signy – I’ll ask my wife tomorrow – I had a look through and couldn’t find anything saying ‘????’.
   I also googled, but didn’t find a good answer.
   Perhaps Oleg will respond, I stuck in a fake comment pretending to be him above, so he is now subsribed to this post 🙂

   OK, so cyrillic characters appear to crash the comment-entry process. never mind, another thing to add to the ‘to do’ list.
10. Oleg Frantsuzov says:
    March 1st, 2008 6:49 pm

    The version I have installed has no langauge switch. Alan, AlReader’s developer, explains it here:

    http://alreader.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4408#4408

    “No problem, there will be a paid-for Ukranian release, same for the English and other language releases. Free release will remain Russian-only.”

    So, you have three options:

    1. Wait for the English paid-for release to be done and then buy it.
    2. Use the latest free beta release in Russian.
    3. Download an older beta release with test Enlgish support. I believe these files are of a multilingual release:

    http://alreader.kms.ru/AlReader/AlReader2.B0433.zip
    http://alreader.kms.ru/AlReader/AlReader2.Hyphen.zip
11. ChrisM says:
    March 2nd, 2008 2:41 am

    Thanks a lot for the links. Any idea what the difference between the two is? BO433 is a revision number I’m guessing, and hyphen is maybe a separate branch of development? Auto-hyphenated text perhaps?

    [edit]
    That’ll teach me to submit a comment before actually checking the downloads out. Install the one, copy the relevant PDB files for your language(s) to the other 🙂 ?
12. Oleg Frantsuzov says:
    March 2nd, 2008 3:16 am

    Precisely. 🙂
13. signy says:
    March 3rd, 2008 3:46 pm

    Thanks Oleg, I will wait for paid English version.
    I will not need English version maybe – I get in to Cyrillic alphabet. It is hard but usefull 🙂
14. ChrisM says:
    March 3rd, 2008 4:03 pm

    >>signy, just to confirm the version Oleg linked to 4 comments above this one does work fine, and are in English 🙂
    and don’t forget to visit his site 🙂
15. Oleg Frantsuzov says:
    March 3rd, 2008 5:27 pm

    One day I’ll put my e-library online, Chris. Next day I will rule the world. 😀