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Lädt ... The Man in the Moss (1994)von Phil Rickman
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Eye opening book that had me exploring further. ( ) The small tight community village of Bridelow is isolated in the Pennines. Samhain is approaching. With The Man in the Moss being unearthed after lying in the peat for years things in the village start to change. I've read the first Merrily Watkins book which I enjoyed, the second I struggled with. I attempted Night after Night which I found boring and gave up. This stand alone novel appealed because of the lead up to Halloween and with it just around the corner I thought I would give it a go. The trouble for me with books by Phil Rickman is the length. I start at the beginning with the understanding I'm in it for a long haul. Long haul it was too. For most of the book I was hooked but at times I was plodding through and wanting to it to be over. What I do love is the small village with its superstitions and its quirks. Lots of characters too which can be bit too much, and having to keep up with whats going on. Overall I liked the story. What I didn't enjoy was the books length with at times not a lot happening. This doesn't put me off at all reading more by this author, but I think I need to be prepared to be with the characters a little while. Perhaps one hundred pages too much. A strange novel that is long on atmosphere and short on action. That doesn’t mean I was bored by it, but I was mystified for longer than I think another novelist would have let me be. The story starts basically by throwing you in the middle of a situation that is really weird, fraught with tension and has backstory you’re not privy to. Slowly though, and with great deliberation, Rickman pulls the threads together and lets you make connections. It’s too long and drawn out to be anything like scary, but it is creepy. Mostly it’s a story about an old group of superstitious whackos trying to get along with an even older group of superstitious whackos only to have a tribe of even nuttier whackos show up and try to oust the older whackos. There’s a limited cast of characters, but there are a lot of them to keep track of. Each section of the book deals with one of them primarily, but as an audio there is nothing in words to denote a switch. In print there may be a break or a line, but nothing that can be read and I think that added to the confusion. Also there are some editing issues with the audio; repeated sentences. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML: The discovery of an Iron Age body preserved in the peat bogs surrounding the village of Bridelow is one of the finds of the century Though dead for two millennia, he remains perfectly preserved in black peat. The Man in the Moss is one of the most fascinating finds of the century, but for the isolated Pennine community of Bridelow, his removal is a sinister sign. A danger to the ancient spiritual tradition maintained, curiously, by the Mothers' Union. In the weeks approaching Samhainâ??the Celtic feast of the deadâ??tragedy strikes again in Bridelow. Scottish folk singer Moira Cairns and American film producer Mungo Macbeth discover their Celtic roots are deeper and darker than they imagined. And, as fundamentalist zealots of both Christian and satanic persuasions challenge an older, gentler faith, the village faces a natural disaster unknown since the reign of Henry VIII Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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