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Lädt ... Academic Exercisesvon K.J. Parker
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Love this collection. I think I’ve read it three times. Parker at his best, with stories of magic, academics, and alchemy in his characteristic pseudo-Byzantine medieval setting. ( ) I'm 2/3 of the way through and I'm done. Good craft, but the stories wander and don't resolve, which could be OK, but it doesn't pay off this time. Now let's talk about the treatment of women. So far, we have two female characters, both exploited and murdered. One is an unnamed prostitute who is charmed, raped, and has her life force stolen. There is a touching afterword where she dies a year later. Want to make this story better? Choose one of the novices from the Studium as a source. Show some life-long pain for the person who did this because they raped an innocent boy. But it is a woman, so not a big deal. Next is a young noblewoman, named, whose skin is used to make parchment for spells. I had a novel by K. J. Parker on my to-read list, but it isn't on my list now. I’m not sure if I want to call K. J. Parker (pseudonym of Tom Holt) a new favourite author. On the one hand, I loved many of these stories and novellas. For instance, I did not know I needed a novella in my life in which a scholar of history There are a number of drawbacks, though. Most obviously, Parker’s main characters read like they might almost be the same person: they are all scholarly types who love to read, they publish highly specialist papers in journals, they illuminate manuscripts as a hobby, they force confessions by showing prospective victims their torture implements rather than using them, and they share the opinion that people who want to be in power should never be allowed to be in power (which leaves them to do the job, against their will). Parker also recycles his jokes too often for comfort. That said, I still enjoyed these stories immensely, probably more than I’m comfortable admitting -- apparently they scratched a few itches simultaneously, several of which I did not know I had. So yeah: maybe Parker is my new guilty pleasure? keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Academic Exercises is the first collection of shorter work by master novelist K. J. Parker, and it is a stunner. Weighing in at over 500 pages, this generous volume gathers together thirteen highly distinctive stories, essays, and novellas, including the recent World Fantasy Award-winner, "Let Maps to Others". The result is a significant publishing event, a book that belongs on the shelf of every serious reader of imaginative fiction.--provided by publisher. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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