PortadaGruposCharlasMásPanorama actual
Buscar en el sitio
Este sitio utiliza cookies para ofrecer nuestros servicios, mejorar el rendimiento, análisis y (si no estás registrado) publicidad. Al usar LibraryThing reconoces que has leído y comprendido nuestros términos de servicio y política de privacidad. El uso del sitio y de los servicios está sujeto a estas políticas y términos.

Resultados de Google Books

Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.

Castle Perilous por John De Chancie
Cargando...

Castle Perilous (1988 original; edición 1988)

por John De Chancie

Series: Castle Perilous (1)

MiembrosReseñasPopularidadValoración promediaMenciones
558642,658 (3.48)18
Imagine life in an ironically magical world where 144,000 doors separate fiction from reality. A place that can hypnotize even the most grounded philosophy major and deliver a fantastical rhyme to his reason. A place where a best buddy resembles a shaggy carpet, and adventures surpass a boy's dreams...welcome to Castle Perilous. … (más)
Miembro:guido47
Título:Castle Perilous
Autores:John De Chancie
Información:Ace (1988), Paperback
Colecciones:Tu biblioteca
Valoración:
Etiquetas:SF

Información de la obra

Castle Perilous por John DeChancie (1988)

Añadido recientemente porbiblioteca privada, kittyfoyle, Scutter22, scraps, DanicaTurcotte18, carolinems, Dagan02, donaekohler
Ninguno
Cargando...

Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará.

Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.

» Ver también 18 menciones

Mostrando 1-5 de 6 (siguiente | mostrar todos)
An assortment of odd characters find themselves in a huge, 144-room besieged castle in an alternate universe, trying to figure out the confusing rules. Lots of twists and turns on the road to a solution. Very entertaining story with an appealing cast of characters.. ( )
  NickHowes | Dec 13, 2016 |
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.

Castle Perilous is a giant castle with 144,000 rooms that are portals to other worlds. These portals are constantly shifting in and out of other dimensions and occasionally they temporarily open up somewhere on Earth. At those times people may stumble into the castle and not be able to get back out. They become one of the permanent “guests” who have great food, luxurious accommodations, and servants to wait on them. Best of all, they get to explore some of the stable portals leading to exotic places. When Gene, Linda, and Snowclaw each stumble into Castle Perilous, it’s under siege by the jilted lover of the castle’s owner.

Here’s a novel that’s got some fun and whimsical ideas but never really capitalizes on all of its creative potential. I love the premise and the story is amusing, but it lacks passion and depth. The characters are shallow, we spend little time exploring the other worlds, and the humor is rather juvenile.

Castle Perilous is like one of those cool-looking kitchen gadgets you see on TV. It promises to be awesome, but when you get it you realize that it only does one job well and it takes up lots of drawer space, so you would have been better off just using your trusty paring knife. Castle Perilous is gimmicky and doesn’t deliver what it promises. But, still, sometimes gimmicky kitchen gadgets are fun... until you want your drawer space back.

I’d recommend Castle Perilous to a teenager looking for a fluffy fantasy read. Fans of Piers Anthony’s Xanth series or Robert Asprin’s MythAdventures are likely candidates. Castle Perilous is the first in an eight-book series. Because I like the premise so much, I may give the second book, Castle for Rent, a try, but my guess is that this series is just too light for me. ( )
1 vota Kat_Hooper | Apr 6, 2014 |
There is a large amount of books that I've read from this period that seem to be very "we did this, and then did this" in third person form - its a bit annoying because there doesn't seem much in the way of character building - the characters in this book are flat, a bit boring, and too accepting of their fate, for example, Gene just accepting Snowy, a very hairy abominable snowman. Its a great concept, but lacking a bit on execution. ( )
  TheDivineOomba | Jul 10, 2010 |
All right - I was expecting more guffaw style humor than what is in this, but there isn't anything wrong with the humor of the thing. If you like Terry Pratchett's style of approaching odd situations as if they were everyday occurances then you'll get the humor here.

Castle Perilous (so named because if you're there, you're in trouble) sits at the center of reality. Not the reality of the universe - no, the universes are actually aspects created by the nature of the castle itself. This includes the universe containing earth. Should the castle disappear, so would all the universes connected and maintained by its existence.

This is exactly what we find here. There are those that would see the castle destroyed and the demon, whose body is the castle, is released. The Lord of the castle, one Incarnadine, is striving (somewhat unsuccessfully) to prevent this. This while trying to make sure that all those within the castle that have traveled to it via various portals remain alive. Well, most of them.

We are introduced to this world by following Gene through a fleetingly lived portal Earth. He is immediately confronted with a rather large, white-haired polar-bear/sasquatch mix with surprisingly good English skills that he should run. Which he does because the walls, and floors, and ceilings are precipitously crashing into each other with his location at the end of the collapse.

There are aspects that are glossed over a tad such as the actual history of the Lord and the castle. However, who ever really wants the full guts story and history when it really isn't important to the story? I'm sure the author knows and that's good enough for me.

It is a fine, good read and one that I would recommend to anyone that like humorous fantasy. ( )
  RicketyCat | Feb 7, 2010 |
A great humorous fantasy story, full of unexpected twists and turns. I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the rest of the series. ( )
  coralsiren | Nov 23, 2009 |
Mostrando 1-5 de 6 (siguiente | mostrar todos)
sin reseñas | añadir una reseña

Pertenece a las series

Debes iniciar sesión para editar los datos de Conocimiento Común.
Para más ayuda, consulta la página de ayuda de Conocimiento Común.
Título canónico
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés. Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Título original
Títulos alternativos
Fecha de publicación original
Personas/Personajes
Lugares importantes
Acontecimientos importantes
Películas relacionadas
Epígrafe
Dedicatoria
Primeras palabras
Citas
Últimas palabras
Aviso de desambiguación
Editores de la editorial
Blurbistas
Idioma original
DDC/MDS Canónico
LCC canónico

Referencias a esta obra en fuentes externas.

Wikipedia en inglés

Ninguno

Imagine life in an ironically magical world where 144,000 doors separate fiction from reality. A place that can hypnotize even the most grounded philosophy major and deliver a fantastical rhyme to his reason. A place where a best buddy resembles a shaggy carpet, and adventures surpass a boy's dreams...welcome to Castle Perilous. 

No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca.

Descripción del libro
Resumen Haiku

Debates activos

Ninguno

Cubiertas populares

Enlaces rápidos

Valoración

Promedio: (3.48)
0.5 1
1 1
1.5
2 6
2.5 2
3 31
3.5 8
4 26
4.5 2
5 10

¿Eres tú?

Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing.

 

Acerca de | Contactar | LibraryThing.com | Privacidad/Condiciones | Ayuda/Preguntas frecuentes | Blog | Tienda | APIs | TinyCat | Bibliotecas heredadas | Primeros reseñadores | Conocimiento común | 203,186,815 libros! | Barra superior: Siempre visible