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| When one reviews a work such as this, one can only really comment on the translation (which I am poorly equipped to do) or its readability. It would be absurd to try to say anything about the substance itself. With that said, I found this a crystal c ...more | |
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| My daughter enjoyed this book, but there are some serious flaws in its execution. The way the narrative jumps around is difficult for a child to follow, and requires a lot of explanation, and there are also fairly long chunks in which not a huge amou ...more | |
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| 4 1/2 stars. An almost perfect novel in the sense of realising what it sets out to achieve, and the book feels bleakly prophetic in the sense that California values of the late 60s have now so permeated the culture everywhere. But I did not enjoy its ...more | |
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| This is..an entertaining end.....to the series, but is let down by.....a tendency to....use ellipses....to communicate a feeling of...... confusion....or....wonder....like this.....page after page....More crucially, its climax lacks emotional heft be ...more | |
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| A gripping read with a great twist at the end (which surprised me despite the fact that I had read the book twice before, though long ago). The suspicion grows that Zelazny is deploying smoke and mirrors to disguise the fact he is making things up as ...more | |
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| This book, while perfectly entertaining - there is never a dull moment with Zelazny, who whips the reader along like a pony pulling a trap - suffers from a bad case of middle volume syndrome. Not a great deal happens, but a great deal of info is dump ...more | |
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| It is absurd to give a star rating to Plato's Republic in substantive terms, but I anyway always enjoy Waterfield's breezy, unfussy and natural translations of classical texts. ...more | |
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| 4 1/2 stars. This is a miracle of plotting: a powerfully condensed elixir of story injected into the mind on a narrative syringe. Zelazny's sheer verve papers over all the seams, so that one is simply carried along without bothering to ask questions ...more | |
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| It is far from the first time I have read this book, but reading it to my 7 year old daughter (after perhaps 15 years since my last reading) allowed me to see it in an entirely fresh light. CS Lewis does not get enough credit for the perfect pacing o ...more | |
