<![CDATA[Ink: The Book of All Hours]]>

false <![CDATA[Ink: The Book of All Hours]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174490238m/406459.jpg 406459 5 With his stunning debut novel, Vellum, Hal Duncan shattered the boundaries between genres. Fantasy, or science fiction, Vellum shocked with the boldness of its ideas, seduced with the sensual beauty of its prose, and astonished with its imaginative sweep. Now Duncan returns with another epic tour de force that surpasses all expectations. INK: The Book of All Hours Once, in the depths of prehistory, they were human. But in a moment of brutal transfiguration, they became unkin, beings who possessed the power to alter reality by accessing the Vellum: a realm of eternity containing every possibility, every paradox, every heaven . . . and every hell. The Vellum became a battleground where forces of order and chaos fought across time and space. The ultimate weapon in that bloody war spanning through history and myth, dreams and memory, was The Book of All Hours, a legendary tome within which the blueprint for all reality is inscribed, a volume long lost amid the infinite folds of the Vellum. Until, in 2017, it was found by Reynard Carter, a young man with the blood of unkin in his veins. Until Phreedom Messenger and her brother, Thomas, were swept up in an archetypal dance of death and rebirth. Until a hermit named Seamus Finnan found the courage to re-forge his broken soul, and a self-proclaimed angel called Metatron unleashed a plague of AI bitmites. Now, in the aftermath of the apocalypse, several survivors search desperately for the remnants of themselves scattered across the Vellum like torn pages, determined to use the blood of the unkin to rewrite The Book of All Hours, and to forge a new destiny for themselves and all humanity. Reality will never be the same. 2621112 27 2 2007 Ink: The Book of All Hours total:102|5:29|4:33|3:26|2:12|1:2| 102 381 230 22 2 1 false false Sun May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 21:02:12 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 18:00:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 23 12:53:40 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 13:14:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 10:53:33 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 01:11:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jan 28 09:53:16 -0800 2009 Sun May 10 17:38:45 -0700 2009 Vellum's threads and twists of plot, Ink's more straight-forward narrative was a letdown. I was left at the end of Vellum wanting to know so much more about the surviving world and what the characters were going to do next, but Ink didn't pick up at all where...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 17 16:01:56 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 10 10:36:05 -0700 2008
I'm not sure exactly how coherently I can explain the appeal, especially as I just finished it...

It takes that aspect of mythology and stories that I always loved, ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Sep 18 11:32:37 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 27 17:16:53 -0800 2007
To try to sum up the plot of Ink and its precursor Vellum would take up much more space and time than I care to expend. But in a nutshell: The world has ended, reality has shattered, and seven people try to put together pieces of themselves that are shat...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Apr 22 19:54:24 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 29 22:40:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 29 11:40:16 -0700 2007 Sun May 06 10:42:02 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 15 07:57:22 -0800 2007 Thu Feb 07 16:52:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 15 12:25:11 -0800 2008 Mon May 19 12:49:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 08 01:22:25 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 01:24:42 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 21:03:08 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 22:05:51 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Dec 07 12:17:52 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 12:18:57 -0800 2008 5 0 false true Sun Jan 11 08:18:57 -0800 2009 Fri Jun 05 11:26:08 -0700 2009
My only complaint: The Epilogue...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Oct 19 17:42:32 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 17:44:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Dec 19 10:33:48 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 10:34:16 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Mar 11 18:33:40 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 18:35:01 -0700 2009 3 0 true false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 06:34:45 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 06:38:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 11:39:45 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 12:19:08 -0800 2008 Vellum. Duncan tones down the incessant switching between narratives and characters, which makes book 2 of the Book of All Hours a more legible counterpart and more focused. The pleasure of reading his smartly researched prose did not diminish the slightest ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 21:50:34 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 10:58:07 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=406459