false 490966 8 An extraordinary, incendiary debut from a rare new talent, Vellum showcases a complex and sophisticated level of writing coupled with a fecund imagination that defies description.<br><b><br></b>VELLUM: THE BOOK OF ALL HOURS<br><br>It&#8217;s 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human; now they are unkin, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of reality itself. They seek The Book of All Hours, the mythical tome within which the blueprint for all reality is transcribed, which has been lost somewhere in the Vellum&#8211;the vast realm of eternity upon which our world is a mere scratch.<br><br>The Vellum, where the unkin are gathering for war.<br><br>The Vellum, where a fallen angel and a renegade devil are about to settle an age-old feud.<br><br>The Vellum, where the past, present, and future will collide with ancient worlds and myths.<br><br>And the Vellum will burn. . . . 1214913 2005 Vellum: The Book of All Hours total:327|5:68|4:88|3:83|2:47|1:41| 327 1076 638 92 1 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 02:53:04 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 04:33:56 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Aug 26 09:40:16 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 09:41:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 2 false false Mon Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 06:53:22 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 10:49:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Feb 14 10:40:19 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 21 07:48:41 -0700 2008
This is an amazing book. It's almost impossible to describe, but the closest I can come is that it's like a mixture of Gibson and King'...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 23 12:39:54 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 12:53:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 19:01:39 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 19:56:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 15:24:19 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 09:31:03 -0800 2008 Vellum. Unfortunately, at several points in novel, Duncan's imagination exceeds his skills as a writer. And, as the over-long descriptions, dropped plot threads, and inconsequential ch...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 11:02:04 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 06:38:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 21:07:25 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 01:53:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 11 08:14:14 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 08:18:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Mon Oct 26 23:01:17 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 23:05:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 00:01:52 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 00:06:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 03:43:14 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 03:46:15 -0700 2009
The plot situation is super convoluted and crazy, though, in a way that's pretty hard to describe. I probably would have enjoyed this book a lot more if I had read it in one or two big chunks, so that I could have kept all of the crazy sh...more...]]> 4 0 false true Sat Jan 17 15:39:26 -0800 2009 Sun May 10 16:38:50 -0700 2009 In the Night Garden, and Vellum has given me similar grief for all that it's arranged more directly. Vellum has a simple set of four main characters, but each character is reoriented every few pages. Reynard-as-narrator, Reynard-as-villain, Reyna...more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Aug 06 14:54:31 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 00:06:45 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 14:54:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 true false Thu Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 08 01:33:37 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 25 01:53:45 -0800 2009
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I suspect this is going to be an important book in the genre of fantasy, but I'm not about to proclaim it a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 26 18:49:34 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 04 22:03:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 14:03:34 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 14:27:16 -0700 2007 more...]]>