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6.0 stars. On my list of "All Time Favorite" novels. This is the newest edition to my list of all time favorite novels and the entire trilogy has earned a place on my list as one of the best fantasy trilogies of ALL TIME (see my review of the entire series under The Fionavar Tapestry for a more detailed review). What I am about to say may be deemed sacrilege amount fantasy readers but the truth is, from the stanpoint of "emotion evoking" and "lyrical, poetic" prose combined with "epic, larger th
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Okay, so everyone else pretending to be Tolkienesque had better queue up behind Kay because he sets the bar HIGH, my friends.
Not that I would expect less from someone who worked on turning the Silmarillion into something publishable, but still.
The thing is, Kay does with the Celtic mythology of what is now the UK more or less what Tolkien does with Anglo/Germanic mythology. They are both, in their own way, turning their own mythologies into a greater narrative past. They're also both invested in ...more
Not that I would expect less from someone who worked on turning the Silmarillion into something publishable, but still.
The thing is, Kay does with the Celtic mythology of what is now the UK more or less what Tolkien does with Anglo/Germanic mythology. They are both, in their own way, turning their own mythologies into a greater narrative past. They're also both invested in ...more
The final installment of the trilogy was a bit hard to get into at first but once I started to remember all the threads the story really got moving and I ended up finding it just as enjoyable as the first two books. Listened to the audio version which was ably narrated by Simon Vance.
Jul 06, 2008
Seth
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