The Dragon Reborn
Robert Jordan, 1991
The third Wheel of Time novel: a shepherd who can channel the One Power walks toward a prophecy he fears, while friends hunt and empires scheme.
Feels like awe and dread. About power and freedom.
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The oldest trick in politics: invent a monster, then volunteer to kill it.
Do you know how to unite the people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead? Robert Jordan.Robert Jordan served as a helicopter gunner in Vietnam, then worked as a nuclear engineer before writing The Eye of the World in his forties.
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Robert Jordan, 1990
A farm boy who wants a quiet life is dragged into a prophecy, hunted by servants of darkness, and taught to wield a power he is afraid of.
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Questions readers ask
- What is The Dragon Reborn like?
- Feels like awe and dread. About power and freedom.
- What should I read after The Dragon Reborn?
- If you liked The Dragon Reborn, try The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon), Foundation (Isaac Asimov) and Under the Dome (Stephen King).
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What it means to be told your blood is the sea.
To be kin to a dragon, you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty. It can raze great cities with its rage. Its depths are unknowable; they do not see the touch of the sun. To be a Miduchi is not to be pure, Tané. It is to be the living sea. That is why I chose you. You have a dragon’s heart.
The Priory of the Orange Tree · Samantha Shannon
What it feels like to wait for a whole planet to appear.
What Gaal was waiting for after the disappointment of the Jump was that first sight of Trantor. He haunted the View-room. The steel shutter-lids were rolled back at announced times and he was always there, watching the hard brilliance of the stars, enjoying the incredible hazy swarm of a star cluster, like a giant conglomeration of fireflies caught in mid-motion and stilled forever. At one time there was the cold, blue-white smoke of a gaseous nebula within five light years of the ship, spreading over the window like distant milk, filling the room with an icy tinge, and disappearing out of sight two hours later, after another Jump.
Foundation · Isaac Asimov
The moment care turns into a kind of ownership.
Denial gives way to acceptance; acceptance breeds dependence. Anyone who’s ever cared for a terminal patient will tell you that, too. Sick people need someone who will bring them their pills and glasses of cold sweet juice to wash them down with. They need someone to soothe their aching joints with arnica gel. They need someone to sit with them when the night is dark and the hours stretch out. They need someone to say, Sleep now, it will be better in the morning. I’m here, so sleep. Sleep now. Sleep and let me take care of everything.
Under the Dome · Stephen King
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