"The Thousandfold Thought" is the concluding volume of R. Scott Bakker's "The Prince of Nothing" trilogy. The Holy War called in the first volume is tempered by blood and fire and arrives at its destination. Numerous plots and machinations reach fruition and tens of thousands die. The book is nothing if not vast in its intentions.
Bakker has serious things going on. He has undertaken an intriguing study of all the things I described in the previous entry. This is good stuff.
The Prince of Nothing has the epic scale of Tolkien and the viciouness of Glen Cook. Bakker has created something worth the investment of time. When I see the shelves of crappy D&D franchise books and know that kids buying them aren't reading Bakker, Cook or P.C. Hodgell (more on her some other time) or a stack of other talented writers I feel woozy. It's just depressing.
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