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Cargando... The Rose of Tibet (1962)por Lionel Davidson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Slow, ponderous, dull - any more bad adjectives. I read Kolymsky Heights some years ago + think I enjoyed it so thought I would try this. I've now given up. Noticed when adding this book that I was reading the 2016 paperback edition but there is an earlier (1962 or 1969 or 1994) hardback edition which probably din't make it to paperback 'cos it is awful !!! I have once again fallen into the publisher's trap of reissuing old, failed books by authors who have finally written a successful book. DOLT! One of the symptoms of madness is the repeated performance of the same action with an expectation of a different outcome. I am, therefore, slightly worried about my own sanity. A few months ago, having been sold the dummy by fervent encomia from a number of writers whose works I have enjoyed, I succumbed to the grievous error of buying Lionel Davidson's Kolymsky Heights, which proved to be one of the most fatuous and irritating novels I had read in a long time. I had promised myself that I would not make that mistake again, so, when I saw Davidson's The Rose of Tibet being lauded by Anthony Horowitz I should have known better. I had, however, just read two books by Horowitz that I had greatly enjoyed, so I foolishly succumbed and decided that the Kolymsky Heights debacle might have been an unrepresentative blot on Davidson's literary escutcheon. Sadly not. I estimate that I have read about five thousand books so far, and I am struggling to recall one that was more irritating, fatuous and worthless than this one. I can't definitively say that I haven't read a worse book, but if I have, then some protective streak in my consciousness has erased it from my memory. Rose of Tibet tells the story of Charles Houston, a footloose school teacher who goes to India in 1950 in search of his half brother who disappeared along with several other members of a film crew. Houston discovers that the film crew vanished into Tibet, which is facing tremendous pressure from Communist China. Houston secures a Sherpa guide & makes his own illegal entry into the forbidden country. He proceeds to get involved with ancient prophecies, religious disputes, Chinese/Tibetan political clashes and four sacks of emeralds. Were it not for a truly ponderous narrative structure, the story is told by a fictional Lionel Davidson who is a book editor, this would be a thriller of the highest rank. As is, it scores a tier below Davidson's own high standard as set in Kolymsky Heights which I highly recommend. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Hugh Whittington is missing, reported dead, while filming near Mount Everest. His brother Charles, determined to find him, embarks on a mission for information that takes him to the forbidden monastery of Yamdring - and its abbess, who happens to be a she-devil in her 18th-century incarnation. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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This sort of fantasy hinging on a generally unknown ethnic group living in a mysterious territory was excusable in the 19th century, but I am not sure why it would be published in the 1960s let alone reprinted in the 21st century. ( )