This is a test.

If it had been a real life, you would have received a cookie.

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Finished Robin Hobb's Farseer Trilogy. The final book had an annoying couple hundred page stretch and then a let down as the hero is reduced to having no purpose in life anymore and living in some cottage doing not much.

Otherwise what I found most interesting was how especially in the first two books such awful things happen to the hero, yet it's still something to escape to. How can this be? Because despite all the awful things which happen, all the injustice, and despite all the insights about human behavior that Hobb shows (in an unpreachy way) it's still essentially completely dishonest. If all the rest were filled in that made it like real life with respect to how the characters thought and acted, it wouldn't be any kind of thing to escape to at all.

But it's essentially such lies. Such pretty lies... To write such a book, a book people could actually enjoy reading, it really seems a person would have to value fun/a good time so so much more than the truth.