One of the first reviews of The Last Dark, and a positive one at that. Beware: Maybe some spoilers!
www.publishersweekly.com:8080/978-0-399-15920-6
Publisher's Weekly Review of The Last Dark
Moderators: Savor Dam, High Lord Tolkien, ussusimiel
-
thranathiril
- Woodhelvennin
- Posts: 58
- Joined: Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:45 pm
- Location: Bermuda
-
aliantha
- blueberries on steroids
- Posts: 17865
- Joined: Tue Mar 05, 2002 7:50 pm
- Location: NOT opening up a restaurant in Santa Fe
I think that's the whole thing.
EZ Board Survivor
"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
https://www.hearth-myth.com/
-
peter
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 11597
- Joined: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:08 am
- Location: Another time. Another place.
- Been thanked: 6 times
I took the risk of reading a few reviews yesterday and was much buoyed by the overall positive response. A few minor gripes here and there, but nothing major. I feel we are going to have much to discuss over the coming months on the Watch and look forward to exchanges that soar like eagles to the heights of literary brilliance in both their praise and invective [lets face it - you can't please all of the people all of the time, and it would be a dull old world if you could! 
].
].The truth is a Lion and does not need protection. Once free it will look after itself.
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
From the review:
Hmmm.
No, no they wont.By the novel’s end, Thomas, his wife, and her son will all have made extraordinary sacrifices to rebuild and redeem the Earth, following the collapse of the Arch of Time and the liberation of Lord Foul the Despiser.
No evidence that it was allegorical, and if the confront and overcome their personal frailties, I didn't see it.Although richly allegorical, the novel’s great strength is the warm humanity of its characters, who distinguish themselves by repeatedly confronting and overcoming their personal frailties.
Hmmm.
A copious vocabulary is no substitute for intelligence.
-
peter
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 11597
- Joined: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:08 am
- Location: Another time. Another place.
- Been thanked: 6 times
No evidence that the reviewer read the same book as me.
The truth is a Lion and does not need protection. Once free it will look after itself.
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
-
I'm Murrin
- Are you?
- Posts: 15840
- Joined: Tue Apr 08, 2003 1:09 pm
- Location: North East, UK
- Contact:
-
peter
- The Gap Into Spam
- Posts: 11597
- Joined: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:08 am
- Location: Another time. Another place.
- Been thanked: 6 times
I refer my learned friend to my last post in the 'An Unreal Utopia' thread pertaining to Othello the Moor.The truth is a Lion and does not need protection. Once free it will look after itself.
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
