Golden Fool (edit title)

Amanda edited the summary of Golden Fool 13 days ago.

• Blindness comes in many forms. For angst-ridden FitzChivalry Farseer, the blindness isn't physical but rather an inability to gauge character. Fitz, the hero of this second volume in the trilogy that began with Fool's Errand (2002), reluctantly returns, disguised as a servant, to Buckkeep town in the Six Duchies to be skill-master to Prince Dutiful, the king-in-waiting. Fitz is mourning the loss of his wolf bondmate Nighteyes, hating his disguise, worrying about his foster son's behavior in Buckkeep and frantically trying to learn enough about the Skill to stay ahead of the prince during their training sessions. Fitz jumps from crisis to crisis like a bowling ball tossed onto a trampoline-his failure to look deeply at others' motivations plunges him into a morass of poorly thought-out actions and badly managed confrontations. The harder Fitz tries, the worse his situation gets. The author juggles all the balls with aplomb, besides providing spot-on characterizations. The intrigue and double-dealing of the Farseer royal court are spider webs of interconnections, while the plot itself keeps the reader bouncing from one theory to another, right up to the somewhat abrupt ending. The writing may not be quite as fine as that in Hobb's Assassins series (Assassin's Apprentice, etc.), but this latest nonetheless shows why she ranks near the top of the high fantasy field.
  Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

  Source: Publishers Weekly

Amanda edited the books like this book of Golden Fool 13 days ago.

• Added Assassin's Apprentice
• Added Fool's Errand
• Added The Dragon Keeper: Volume One of the Rain Wilds Chronicles
• Added Assassin's Quest
• Added Talion: Revenant
• Added Guardians Of The Keep (The Bridge of D'Arnath, Book 2)
• Added The Charnel Prince (The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Book 2)
• Added The Warrior Prophet: The Prince of Nothing Book Two
• Added The Paths of the Dead (The Viscount of Adrilankha, Book 1)
• Added Cartomancy: Book Two of The Age of Discovery
• Added A Fortress of Grey Ice: Book Two of Sword of Shadows

Amanda edited the quotations of Golden Fool 13 days ago.

• Added a quotation: “But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at a blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I.”Fool
• Added a quotation: “Work, the old people say, keeps a man young. But perhaps that is something old folk say just because they know they must go on working. Be off with you, Fitz. And try not to discover any more crises for me before the day is out.”Chade
• Added a quotation: “Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.”Narrator

Joshua Anderson edited the characters of Golden Fool 2 weeks ago.

• Edited a character: theFool
• Added a character: Prince Dutiful

Sini N edited the characters of Golden Fool 2 weeks ago.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added a character: FitzChivalry Farseer
• Added a character: the Fool

Joshua Anderson edited the table of contents of Golden Fool 2 weeks ago.

• Prologue: Losses Sustained
  Chapter I: Piebalds
  Chapter II: Chade's Servant
  Chapter III: Echoes
  Chapter IV: The Betrothal
  Chapter V: Shared Sorrows
  Chapter VI: Obiteration
  Chapter VII: Lessons
  Chapter VIII: Ambitions
  Chapter IX: Stone Wager
  Chapter X: Resolutions
  Chapter XI: Tidings From Bingtown
  Chapter XII: Jek
  Chapter XIII: Challenges
  Chapter XIV: Scrolls
  Chapter XV: Quarrel
  Chapter XVI: Fathers
  Chapter XVII: Explosions
  Chapter XVIII: Pink Sugar Cake
  Chapter XIX: Laudwine
  Chapter XX: Coterie
  Chapter XXI: Convalescence
  Chapter XXII: Connections
  Chapter XXIII: Revalations
  Chapter XXIV: Connections
  Chapter XXV: Convocation
  Chapter XXVI: Negotiations
  Chapter XXVII: Spring Sailing
  Epilogue.

Joshua Anderson edited the first sentence of Golden Fool 2 weeks ago.

• The loss of a bond-beast is a difficult event to explain to the non-Witted.

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of Golden Fool Monday, August 17 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Golden Fool Sunday, August 2 2009.

• The acclaimed Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies established Robin Hobb as one of the most splendidly imaginative practitioners of world-class fantasy. Now, in Book 2 of her most stunning trilogy yet, Hobb continues the soul-shattering tale of FitzChivalry Farseer. With rich characters, breathtaking magic, and sweeping action, Golden Fool brings the reluctant adventurer further into the fray in an epic of sacrifice, salvation, and untold treachery. Golden Fool Prince Dutiful has been rescued from his Piebald kidnappers and the court has resumed its normal rhythms. But for FitzChivalry Farseer, a return to isolation is impossible. Though gutted by the loss of his wolf bondmate, Nighteyes, Fitz must take up residence at Buckkeep and resume his tasks as Chade’s apprentice assassin. Posing as Tom Badgerlock, bodyguard to Lord Golden, FitzChivalry becomes the eyes and ears behind the walls. And with his old mentor failing visibly, Fitz is forced to take on more burdens as he attempts to guide a kingdom straying closer to civil strife each day. The problems are legion. Prince Dutiful’s betrothal to the Narcheska Elliania of the Out Islands is fraught with tension, and the Narcheska herself appears to be hiding an array of secrets. Then, amid Piebald threats and the increasing persecution of the Witted, FitzChivalry must ensure that no one betrays the Prince’s secret—a secret that could topple the Farseer throne: that he, like Fitz, possesses the dread “beast magic.” Meanwhile, FitzChivalry must impart to the Prince his limited knowledge of the Skill: the hereditary and addictive magic of the Farseers. In the process, they discover within Buckkeep one who has a wild and powerful talent for it, and whose enmity for Fitz may have disastrous consequences for all. Only Fitz’s enduring friendship with the Fool brings him any solace. But even that is shattered when unexpected visitors from Bingtown reveal devastating secrets from the Fool’s past. Now, bereft of support and adrift in intrigue, Fitz’s biggest challenge may be simply to survive the inescapable and violent path that fate has laid out for him. From the Hardcover edition.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Golden Fool Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Robin Hobb: