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Cargando... The Weirdstone of Brisingamen: A Tale of Alderley (1960 original; edición 1998)por Alan Garner
Información de la obraThe Weirdstone of Brisingamen por Alan Garner (1960)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This cover was the sole reason I purchased this book. Pages 1-97 were why I fell in love with it. Pages 98-155 killed the momentum. And the remaining ~100 pages were the reason I will never crack it open again. The first third of this story is amazing. Delightfully crafted and appropriately paced. Then the next 25% of the book is a single setting with 2 characters then 4 characters and it is so mundane. Finally things move on but it lost all its magic already. Incredibly disappointing. Garner's first first novel, and clearly not his best. It's a bold enough quest, though a tad too long. The first half – scene-setting, etc. – is good, it's the latter half – basically a dungeon crawl plus a furtive, stealth trek – that shortening would improve. Either that or the provision of more background information. The usual Garner is all here: thin characters; mythology; Alderley Edge; terse prose. Every writer has to start somewhere. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A tale of Alderley When Colin and Susan are pursued by eerie creatures across Alderley Edge, they are saved by the Wizard. He takes them into the caves of Fundindelve, where he watches over the enchanted sleep of one hundred and forty knights. But the heart of the magic that binds them - Firefrost, also known as the Weirdstone of Brisingamen - has been lost. The Wizard has been searching for the stone for more than 100 years, but the forces of evil are closing in, determined to possess and destroy its special power. Colin and Susan realise at last that they are the key to the Weirdstone's return. But how can two children defeat the Morrigan and her deadly brood? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Unfortunately, the story really drags in the latter half of the book as the protagonists undertake a slow and tedious crawl across a few miles of English countryside while trying to remain hidden. Finally they reach their destination and the intensity suddenly shoots up to 11 for a few pages in an all-out battle with the forces of evil and then wham, book over.
Still, flawed though it was, I enjoyed reading it. ( )