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Carregando... Ancient Echoesde Robert Holdstock
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. One of my favourite authors. It's good, but it's a long way short of his best. Bit clunkily written in places, but it does have his knack of imagining really convincing people from the olden days. ( ) A really interesting concept, blending fantasy, mythology and science fiction. I found myself fascinated by how the author deployed his dreamscapes and archetypes, and I felt that the image of the city hunting through time and space was a very potent one. However, the story had lost steam well before the end, and the protagonist himself always felt thinly characterised to me. How many Glanums are there?' he asked. 'As many as you can find,' Garth answered darkly. 'Glanum has left its shadow across the world, and it has been doing so for longer than you can imagine.' An odd story, whose incomprehensible premise involves mythical figures generated within a boy's mind (I think?) and the strange behaviour of the ancient city of Glanum. I couldn't make head nor tail of it and the rushed ending didn't make things any clearer. The strength of the story is in the individual scenes. Each scene by itself is intriguing and enjoyable. The author's interest in historic detail, both for Ice Age scenes and later eras, comes through clearly. Episodes in the protagonist's life are detailed with great care, including extensive descriptions of visits into other worlds, and the mysterious entity who threatens him and his family. The weakness is that the story never seems to have any direction. We're not given any sort of inkling into the purpose behind it all until the last few pages, which is a distraction from the story. You tend to be so caught up in wondering what the point is that you lose sight of how well written the individual scenes are. It's a lot to ask to get through 400 pages of dense language with the sense that the story is spinning its wheels. The strength and weakness balance themselves out into a pretty average book. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Jack Chatwin has visions, which leave tangible evidence - sounds and smells, which linger afterwards. What he sees are two primitive figures, with painted faces - Greyface and Greenface, a brother and sister. He calls them bullrunners. John Garth is a city dowser, searching for the mythical pre-Roman city of Glanum. He hopes to find an entryway to the elusive city beneath Exburgh, Jack's home town. And he thinks Jack's bullrunners may be connected to Glanum . . . Years later, Jack, now grown up, agrees to take part in experiments to investigate his bullrunners - until Greyface, the male, breaks free of Jack and takes corporeal form. The bullrunner kidnaps Jack's young daughter so Jack will force Greenface to follow her brother-husband, even against her own wishes. Though Greyface returns the daughter, he keeps a shadow of her, which takes on a life of its own. If Jack refuses to co-operate, the shadow will drain his daughter's vitality and personality - and her very future. The story of Jack's search for Greenface is interwoven with the connections between the bullrunners and the mystical city of Glanum in this resonant tale of ancient mythic wonder. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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