The Drawing of the Dark (Fantasy Masterworks)
EUR 4,11
Beer...It s not just for breakfast anymore - It s so good to see this book back in print. When I first got hold of it, I was amaxed as to how good it was. Over the years I ve had cause to re-read it a number of times and each time I find something new.Powers skillfully leads his readers on a grand adventure, while at the same time keeping everything light and fun and easy to read. By the time you ve breezed through to the end, you realixe he s slipped in a whole boatload of allegorical messages about dealing with parents, following your dreams and not always seeing what you believe.And then there s the beer. Only someone of Powers ability can make drinking beer an integral part of the Aurthurian mythos.I ll raise a toast to that!
Good Straight Ahead Fantasy - Brian Duffy is just your average work-a-day soldier for hire when he is pulled into a plot involving forgotten heroes, strange magic, and bizarre creatures. Encountering monsters straight out of legend and meeting up with some guy named The Fisher King, Duffy slowly learns that his past stretches much further back than he realizes.In typical Tim Powers style, the plot of this late Renaissance fantasy begins with threads of story weaving in all directions, and resolves at last by the end of the book. Powers works in the invading armies of Islam, King Arthur, a mystical brewery in Vienna, Vikings, and more in this fantastic yarn.I enjoyed this book overall, but it wasn t Mr. Powers s best (which can be forgiven, seeing as it was his first book). The plot moved a bit slowly at times, and the ending seemed a tad rushed. But overall, this was an enjoyable read and very funny. Great for taking a break between other, more serious fantasies.
Impresive - The Drawing of the Dark was a great book. To qualfy as great I think a book has to be hard to put down, have interesting characters, have a good setting and most of all it must blend in some humor. This book did all of those things. I don t think that you could go wrong if you decided to read Drawing of the Dark.
Drawing of the Dark - Just about the best of Tim Powers works. A dark fantastical journey through Europe in the late middle ages with plenty of geography on the way. An excellent plot, coloured in nicely by a drunken Irish mercenary who s a dab hand with a rapier - somehow making up for his lack of people skills. This was in fact the first Tim Powers book that I ever read and have just re-read it.(something I NEVER do with books that I ve read before!) Having now read most of his books, this one is only rivalled, in fact almost matched, by The Anubis Gates - another must read .
A good read - This book is clearly an early work. It already has some of the elements of Last Call and The Annubis Gates, but the writer still sticks to a classical theme (King Arthur). This disappointed me a bit. As it is, it is a well-recommended fantasy novel.