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Lädt ... Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (2007. Auflage)von Gordon Dahlquist, Dave McKean (Illustrator)
Werk-InformationenDie Glasbücher der Traumfresser von Gordon Dahlquist
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book is long. Very, very long. The basic story is interesting, set in late Victorian times in a fictional country that could be on the Baltic or North Sea. The narrative jumps between the stories of the three heroes, who meet at various points and then separate. It deals with conspiracies at the highest levels of society, concerning a mysterious substance which captures the experiences of people who have been exposed to it. There are chases, fights, airships, captures, escapes, country houses, sinister geniuses, femmes fatales, all the elements of a cracking good adventure story. But it's just so long. It would read much better if a third of the book was just edited out. I really wanted to like it but in the end it was such a slog to get to the end that I didn't enjoy it much. ( ) This book has three viewpoint characters,there is Celeste Temple the proper young lady,Cardinal Chang the assassin and Dr Svenson the man of doctoring and science. Cardinal Chang first encounter Celeste on a train when she is covered in blood after going to the villains mansion to search for her fiancee to know why he vanished and broke it off so suddenly.I cant remember how the doctor enters the plot as he was pretty unmemorable and with all the other things you had to keep track of in this book you have to expect casualties. So when I started reading this I had all my hopes up there would steampunk elements and good adventure throughout but I wasnt expecting all the eroticism that the backcover promises. But when I first read it back in 2007 there was no mention of all that. So I guess it has been added later. I dont have a trouble with sex in books I am not one of these people who only want "clean" reads but this one had me feeling a bit akward. In my head I thought of them as those awkward sexual scenes and made me wonder what purpose in bringing the plot forward they contributed to. There is a good reason the blurb of this book mentions "perverted religion" and "erotic literary adventure" because its a constant theme through the book. The glass books of the title can be used to store a persons memories but it seems what most of them contain is memories of a sexual nature.I would have thought the technology could have some more practical use but then I am not part of twisted powerhungry cult who WANTS TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD. And their evilest mastermind is a bi-sexual Contessa. :/ I was surprised she didnt burn her corset This author has a very odd notion about womens and their sexuality At least thats what I assumed they wanted to do as much of the book confused me.Too many plotlines and too many unlikeable or easily forgettable characters didnt help either. I know this though...sometimes I felt like I was trapped in the authors sexual fantasy world.
The Glass Books... is a piece of steampunk, a strand of Industrial Revolution sci-fi with a hardcore following in genre fiction and anime - as well as, it should be said, more than a whiff of Games Workshop about it. The classic texts are probably William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine and, more recently, Alan Moore's immensely jolly League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics, and this novel is nakedly indebted to both titles. Fans of Moore, particularly, will find themselves subconsciously ticking boxes as Dahlquist's narrative progresses: mysterious character who wears "smoked-glass spectacles" all the time - yes; sinister operations undertaken by chaps in diving-bell helmets and leather gauntlets - yes; airships - yes; lots of airships - yes. The plot goes something like this: a cabal of sinister aristos has discovered a substance that allows them to download human personalities and experiences into blue glass, a process that has the side-effect of making the subject entirely biddable to their demands. Ranged against them is a trio of accidental adventurers: a capable ingenue, a lovelorn mercenary and a strait-laced doctor, each of whom has his or her own reasons for wanting to topple the conspiracy. Reading this book - and it is a page-turner - you become immersed, befogged, almost as if you had indeed been looking at one of the glass books. More than sex, what you're drugged by is fighting and pursuits: I've never seen violent physical action sustained over such a span in a novel. This intoxication is of a piece with the erotic thralldom the book projects, and it can become similarly cartoon-like: "The blow caught Starck squarely on the ear with a sickening, pumpkin-thwacking thud, dropping him like a stone." Gehört zur ReiheThe Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (Book 1) BeinhaltetThe Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Temple von G.W. Dahlquist (indirekt) The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Cardinal von G.W. Dahlquist (indirekt) The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Surgeon von G.W. Dahlquist (indirekt) The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Boniface von G.W. Dahlquist (indirekt) The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Ministry von G.W. Dahlquist (indirekt) The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Quarry von G.W. Dahlquist (indirekt) The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Royale von G.W. Dahlquist (indirekt) The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Cathedral von G.W. Dahlquist (indirekt) The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Provocateur von G.W. Dahlquist (indirekt) The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters: Inheritrix von G.W. Dahlquist (indirekt) AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige Auswahlen
It begins with a simple note: Roger Bascombe wishes to inform Celeste Temple that their engagement is forthwith terminated. But Celeste, for all her lack of worldly experience, is determined to find out why her fiancé should have thrown her over so cruelly. Adopting a disguise, she follows her erstwhile lover to the forbidding Harschmort manor, where she discovers a world--by turns seductive and shocking--she could never have imagined, and a conspiracy so terrifying as to be almost beyond belief.--From publisher description. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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