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critical review of TMWKHB
Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 7:31 pm
by Usivius
Hi all. In such a learned group I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find a critical review or critique of The Man WHo Killed His Brother.
As part of a comparative essay my daughter had to do on any two novels, I talked he into reading the above mentioned novel and The DaVinci Code. heheh, yes they are polar opposites in story telling. But that was the point.
But part of her assignment is to include two critiques of each novel. I have been able to find only one on the internet ...
help?...
Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 10:39 pm
by danlo
www.reviewsbygavrielle.com/axfiles.shtmlHere's one of three I found and most are not very flattering---This guy's fav series in the world is The Gap, but he doesn't like the "Man Who" books very much...
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 3:09 pm
by Rincewind
im on page 10 of that review (Gap)
this guys a great reviewer though, very engrossing
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 3:44 am
by Dragonlily
Rincewind wrote:im on page 10 of that review (Gap)
this guys a great reviewer though, very engrossing
She has a gift of gab, but no sense of proportion. She loves the series but concentrates almost exclusively on an exaggerated recounting of its flaws -- what she considers flaws. After reading all 63 pages of her essay about the GAP, I think she is so in love with finding flaws that she will distort her vision, or blind herself to what SRD actually says, if it will help her see them. It ends with her being sarcastic about the "happy ending," and admitting at the same time that she sobbed her eyes out reading it.
Having seen her approach to something she thinks she likes, I'm not going near her comments on MAN WHO.
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:44 am
by Nathan
She is a very good writer, so good that I almost (almost) missed the flagrant bias, hypocrisy, contradiction and, to be frank, ridiculousness in the Gap review.
I can see what she was trying to say on all counts, but she's gone too far for it to be plausible.
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 4:58 am
by I'm Murrin
I'm not too bothered by the attitudes in the review - she says quite a few times how she didn't intend to give a rounded, proportioned review.
I disagree with a lot of her points - her image of Nick, despite Donaldson's outright stating of his true nature, for example, and the way she 'refuses to accept' the character transformations as they are presented - but can see where a lot of it is coming from.