The Wizard (The Wizard Knight, Book 2)
by Gene Wolfepublished
August 29th 2006
(first published 2004)
by Tor Fantasy
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Mass Market Paperback, 608 pages
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0765350505
(isbn13: 9780765350503)
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Sir Able returns to Mythgathr on his steed Cloud, a great mare the color of her name. Able is filled with new knowledge of the ways of the seven-fold ...more
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My review for the first book in the set is reprinted below. All that I said about it applies to book #2.
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The *most frustrating*, well written book I've ever read. Whole sections of the story events are meerly implied, and often implied after the fact. It felt like I wasn't being shown the entire story--nor was the entire story being told, for that matter. Instead, the next scene starts and we, as readers, are left to figure out what happened.
In one sense,...more
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The *most frustrating*, well written book I've ever read. Whole sections of the story events are meerly implied, and often implied after the fact. It felt like I wasn't being shown the entire story--nor was the entire story being told, for that matter. Instead, the next scene starts and we, as readers, are left to figure out what happened.
In one sense,...more
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Read in August, 2007
I loved it. It might be the best Wolfe I've ever read. It's also the slowest (perhaps excepting the Book of the Short Sun, and that's slow because the plot is slow). This book felt a lot more meditative to me, which I really enjoyed. And as much as we've glimpsed Wolfe's ideas about the nature of our own world in his other works, this book creates an entirely new metaphysics which I absolutely loved. It's worth it just for his explanations of good and evil, creation, hell, etc, not to mention th...more
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Read in December, 2007
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I can say nothing more than that if this series of books was made into movies, it would be like a Star Wars obsession to me, thats how good these books truely are.
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Read in July, 2008
It was a little strange to suddenly not be reading wholly in the first person (as with the first book), but under the circumstances I felt that Wolfe dealt with it pretty well. On the whole, an enjoyable read, but I found myself a little less fond of the fully grown, truly adult Able than I had been of the child. I had a little more trouble understanding and aligning myself to his motives-- they got a little obscure at times.
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This book has been slow going. The first volume was all in one voice, Able of the High Heart, but this one switches between characters, a device that I generally find annoying, it takes me out of the story and makes me stop to think "wait, who is this talking now?"
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