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Carregando... The Ship of Ishtar (original: 1924; edição: 2011)de Abraham Merritt (Autor)
Informações da ObraThe Ship of Ishtar de A. Merritt (1924)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Read this some years ago and wasn't very interested. It is a probably fairly typical example of a particular kind of pulp fiction: mightly hewed Vikings, beautiful compliant women, trusty sidekick of a non Caucasian extraction. People are on ships, they are different groups and the groups are backed by different gods, including Ishtar. There's fighting, and the hero is a slave part of the time. That's all I remember, but I do know I wasn't very keen and there are other books by Merritt that I far prefer to this one. ( ) Cuando John Kenton descubrió la pequeña nave de piedra que procedía de los lejanos tiempos de Sargón de Akkad, no podía imaginar que estaba abriendo una puerta a través del Espacio y el Tiempo que le llevaría a un mundo de magia y aventura, de amor y amistad, pero también de odio y peligro, en el que conocería y desearía a sharane, la sensual sacerdotisa de Ishtar, pero también a Klaneth, el Sacerdote Negro del terrible dios Nergal. Dos seres empeñados en una eterna lucha a muerte, que le arrastrarán a un torbellino de horror, pasión, brujería y violencia. > Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Merritt-La-nef-dIshtar/16498 > BAnQ (Grand G., Le devoir, 3 mai 1975) : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2775031 High fantasy, with a mediocre plot (modern man swept into a fantasy world, it has been done before), and a rather surprising ending (I must admit, I had suspected a totally different outcome). That being said, I rather enjoyed reading this tome, for the same reason I usually enjoy this type of books: the language. It is so elaboratly descriptive, with beautiful, nowadays underused words, it gives the whole story a bit of a mystical air (like these 2 sentences found on page 163: Kenton, climbing, heard thunderings like the clashing of armied shields; clanging of countless cymbals, tintamarre of millions of gongs of brass. Ever louder grew the clangor as he ascended; with it mingled now the diapason of mighty winds, staccato of cataracts of rain.) One of the books that turned me on to heroic fantasy fiction back in the early Seventies. I've been a fan of Merritt's for a long time. He's little known outside a narrow field these days, but he knew how to drive a plot. Our protagonist is "sucked" into a sculpure of a boat, finding himself part of the crew and forced to man the oars in a fantasy "Arabian Nights" setting. That's just the start of a swashbuckling adventure worthy of a Douglas Fairbanks movie. There are sultry maidens, heroic rescues, and black magic, all you'd expect in a fantasy novel of the period. The writing style seems pulpy and dated these days, but it's a great fast read, and should be on every fantasy reader's bookshelf, just so they can understand the history of the genre. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Explorer John Kenton returns from a lifetime of wanderings and the wreckageof World War I to discover a mysterious block of Babylonian basalt containing acrystal model of an ancient ship -- the Ship of Ishtar! The sultry magic ofthe fable Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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