Eaters of the Dead in Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy"

Jan 01, 2013 Mark rated it really liked it · review of another edition

i really enjoyed reading this book, i loved the film. i have never read anything written in this style at all. it reads like a travelogue. its a slow start but the stories flow draws you in, the paces picks up half way Through the book.

please read or watch the film or do both which i highly recommend to all who read this.

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Jan 12, 2013 Bryn Hammond rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Two stars is mean but I'd swear there's two weeks' work in it, for Michael Crichton. If I starred him for Ibn Fadlan's travel account I'd go much higher. It's told me I need to track down Ibn Fadlan -- unless this is more or less the whole of what we've got, in which case I thank Michael Crichton. Don't ask me about the Beowulf bits. Beyond a crude outline of the plot, Beowulf isn't home. So maybe I'm a sore-headed Beowulf fan.

Sorry. Ibn Fadlan is seriously groovy and I think I'm in a mean mood ...more

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Jun 02, 2012 Periklis rated it it was amazing

Shelves: sword-n-sorcery

I first became interested in reading this book after multiple viewings of its filmic adaptation, The 13th warrior. The cultural taboos portrayed in the book in the form of pseudo-historical footnotes or the observations of Ahmad ibn Fadlan (a trully Lovecraftian protagonist reminescent of Randolf Carter), is the most most interesting feature of this fast-paced, Sword & Sorcery retelling, of the Beowulf epic. I was fortunate to read the Ian Miller-illustrated version, where the hauntingly surreal ...more

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Feb 28, 2015 Oliver Hassani rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I love the idea, and i feel that i could make a truly horrifying tale out of it.. However, Crichton's idea of writing this in the manner of Ahmed Ibn Fadlan's original manuscript's wasn't the best, in my opinion. Nonetheless, the concept of the plot was fantastic and i wish someone would make a great horror movie out of it... (not starring antonio banderas...also, call it Eaters of the dead damn it) ...more

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