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The Black Tower (1988) is full of forced action and lost opportunity. In any event, I thank the Goodreads Sword & Sorcery groupread that enabled me to revisit a series I thought I missed out on. If you like to be constantly bait-n-switched without reason, then this book is for you. Since it is the anchor for the series, I don't plan on reading more.
The Concept: Set ~1870, the aristocratic Englishman Major Clive Folliot goes exploring across the world for his missing brother Neville. The premise ...more
The Concept: Set ~1870, the aristocratic Englishman Major Clive Folliot goes exploring across the world for his missing brother Neville. The premise ...more
I'm a little bewildered at my four-star memories and my two-star present experience: it emulates the Scientific Romance Pulp tradition of a long preamble before "it starts", and even afterwards it is satisfied with throwing a lot of _mysterious_ stuff at you--plot arc stuff and recurring characters that figure into later parts of the series--rather than _exciting_ or _amazing_ stuff. For every lunatic anthropophagous hydra-thing battle on the Bridge of Doom, there's a sedate village encounter th
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