Anyone else read the "Nights Dawn Trilogy".

[dududf]

Just a quick question wondering if anyone else read the Nights Dawn trilogy.

On sunday I picked up the both of them and read it and I just finished it today, an extremely good book in my opinion, easily up there with Enders Game.

And I'm just a bit curious to see if anyone else read it, and how you felt about it.

To those not in the know, the Night's dawn trilogy, is one book split up into three books. It's Sci-Fi and fucking amazing.

Covers...

All three are about 3600 pages or so, nice easy read, and you kinda have to read all three or else you haven't finished the book.

So lemme know if you've read it or not!

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Here's the wiki for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night%27s_Dawn_Trilogy

 

[dududf]

Well it appears this died before it started...

I wonder if I get a medal of sorts for making a thread that didn't even get a single reply..

That'd be a nifty medal..

 

[JupiterBase]

Looks interesting i will have to pick it up next trip to the book store.

 

[JRCB]

What are they about, so I can see if I can add them to my "to read" list?

 

[Incompl te]

They look intriguing but soem info would be good (the wiki page is blocked here at school)

 

[Gentleman_Reptile]

I skipped to the end. Something about his scar not hurting him for the last 19 ye-----oh wait.

 

[dududf]

They look remarkably uninteresting. What are they about? Because I don't feel like clicking a wikipedia link today. It's no-wiki day for me.

Looks interesting i will have to pick it up next trip to the book store.

They look intriguing but soem info would be good (the wiki page is blocked here at school)

I skipped to the end. Something about his scar not hurting him for the last 19 ye-----oh wait.

Holy cow, REPLIES ??!!!

It's a space opera, takes place in the 2700 time period.

Mankind is split in 2, Adamists and Edenists. Edenists are typically Atheist (but can be religious if they wish, they also use biology based tech. Where as Adamaists are typically religious and use nano tech.

It essentially revolves around multiple chareacters during "possession" from which a bunch of satanists randomly open up the gate way to the after life, but it's not the after life of Hell or heaven. Anyways at the same time there was some sort of alien surveillance robot, from which is about the size of a thousandth of a electron or so slipped through the gate way from which was only open for a infisimally small amount of time, and then the souls had something to "cling" to. As such a soul came forth into the body that the Satanists were torturing and essentially a massive bout of possessing occurs.

Essentially a bunch of stuff is going on, it's cool, well written and if you're a Sci-fi fan and an Avid reader you NEED it in your collection.

 

[dududf]

It sounds fucking terrible.

Kind of low content there. Care to state why?

 

[ma55ter_fett]

Well to judge a book by its cover(s) they must be duller than a rendition of all the various "Caps" for all the classes in wow.

 

[dududf]

It sounds fucking terrible.

Kind of low content there. Care to state why?

Because it sounds like a bunch of ideas for separate stories got together. Got drunk, had an orgy then threw up on one of them and left, leaving that one of them covered with chunks and disgusting traces of the other ideas. This idea then rather then trying to clean up its life and get its act together made this its identity and became a massive clusterfuck of vomit and STDs. The end result is a book that, based on your plot summary, sounds fucking terrible because it reeks of stale vomit and various bodily fluids.

O_O

Well... uh OK. That's an explanation, it's nail bitingly different from my own but...

I'm just going to go bang my head on a wall for a couple of minutes... excuse me.

*Thud Thud Thud*

 

[Aesir23]

Can't say I've read that series before, it certainly sounds interesting from your description.

 

[dududf]

It sounds fucking terrible.

Kind of low content there. Care to state why?

Because it sounds like a bunch of ideas for separate stories got together. Got drunk, had an orgy then threw up on one of them and left, leaving that one of them covered with chunks and disgusting traces of the other ideas. This idea then rather then trying to clean up its life and get its act together made this its identity and became a massive clusterfuck of vomit and STDs. The end result is a book that, based on your plot summary, sounds fucking terrible because it reeks of stale vomit and various bodily fluids.

O_O

Well... uh OK. That's an explanation, it's nail bitingly different from my own but...

I'm just going to go bang my head on a wall for a couple of minutes... excuse me.

*Thud Thud Thud*

To make what I said make more sense; it sounds like trash because the story sounds cluttered as all fuck making it a garbled mess of poor plot and herpes.

I'm banging my head because I didn't describe it well, and it is indeed fucking amazingly delivered and paced and you're stomping on something beloved.

Like if I were to take an 8 year olds innocent kitten, and stomp on it in front of its face because the 8 year old mispelt kitten. Ultimately their fault because if it were not for their mistake the kitten would not have been converted to mush.

 

[TMAN10112]

After reading your description, I have to agree with LordNue.

However, after reading most of the book's Wikipedia page I'm pretty interested.

In your description you dive into the plot of the books too quickly, without enough backround information to make sense of it. It gives the whole thing a "What the fuck is this?" kind of feeling (As LordNue so perfectly described).

 

[dududf]

After reading your description, I have to agree with LordNue.

However, after reading most of the book's Wikipedia page I'm pretty interested.

In your description you dive into the plot of the books too quickly, without enough backround information to make sense of it. It gives the whole thing a "What the fuck is this?" kind of feeling (As LordNue so perfectly described).

I'm not too great at plot summaries.. especially when something is so ...big.

It'd be a ***** to do a book report on the trilogy...

 

[TMAN10112]

After reading your description, I have to agree with LordNue.

However, after reading most of the book's Wikipedia page I'm pretty interested.

In your description you dive into the plot of the books too quickly, without enough backround information to make sense of it. It gives the whole thing a "What the fuck is this?" kind of feeling (As LordNue so perfectly described).

I'm not too great at plot summaries.. especially when something is so ...big.

It'd be a ***** to do a book report on the trilogy...

Neither am I (atleast not without a lot of revision, anyways).

From what I can tell, it would be a huge task to summarize a trilogy as expansive/complex as this one.

 

[SuperGordon]

I haven't read the Night's Dawn books, but I've read his Commonwealth Saga and the two books so far of the Void Trilogy.

 

[Spaghetti]

Gonna be posotive here.

Yes, I have read the Nights Dawn Trilogy and I think it is the best Sci-Fi I have ever read, and I intend to re-read them once I have finished Dune.

The sheer scale of the books is Awesome (old defenition i.e. Huge) and every charachter has their own intricate personality. Plus there are so many things going on that it is impossible to get bored. The concepts are wonderful, the story is wonderful, the charachters are wonderful. It.is.wonderful.

My only criticism is the ending. Those that have read will know what I'm talking about.

Spoiler: Serious Spoilers. I pretty much give away the ending here...

It was the defenition of Deus Ex Machina. There's this serious problem and lots of worlds and on the brink of destruction...and then they find this diety like creature that solves the problems for them. Still, that's my only criticism and I feel its a minor one when you consider the grand scale of the book.