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The Falcon of Palermo
Maria R. Bordihn
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The Falcon of Palermo opens with the nations of modern Europe just beginning to take shape, while the papacy clings to its temporal power. Into this era of shifting borders and alliances steps a leader who will become legendary—the brilliant maverick Frederick II. After losing his parents, Emperor Henry Hohenstaufen and Queen Constance, by age four, a young, neglected Frederick runs among the urchins in the Muslim quarter while German warlords overrun Sicily. To restore order the Pope sends Archbishop Berard, a warmhearted man who gradually develops a deep bond with the gifted boy. Fluent in Arabic and strongly influenced by Muslim culture, Frederick aims to return Sicily to her former glory. However, when elected Holy Roman Emperor in a surprise move by the German princes, his vision grows. Once established as the unchallenged ruler, Frederick works to create an empire equal to that of Rome. Marked by his struggle with the Papacy for the domination of Europe, his glorious feats in battle, his recapturing of the Holy Land, his falconry, and the passions that led him to wives, mistresses, and one enduring love, Frederick's life is a fascinating glimpse into a pivotal period in medieval history.
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Engrossing subject and obvious colossal research marred by flat telling of amazing life.......2005-12-30
Maria Bordihn's "The Falcon of Palermo" does a major service for modern readers by telling a fictionalized account of one of history's truly great players, Frederick II. Unfortunately, by choosing to tell Frederick's entire story in one novel, Bordihn skims along the surface and generally resorts to the crutch of "telling" the reader what's going on, rather than "showing."
It's a wonder that while the genre of historical fiction is crammed with multiple versions of the lives of Julius Caeasr, Henry V, and the other "Great Nasmes" that Frederick II really has gone ignored. Here is a man who lived an entire life of rich conflict. Reared among both Christians and Muslims on the island of Sicily, Frederick was a remarkable example of religious tolerance at at time when the slightest questioning of official church doctrine got you burnt at the stake for heresy. He also survived assassination attempts, fought to unify a horrendously-splintered Germany and Italy, and also fought to bring European scholarship back to Roman levels. This is a character for the ages.
Bordihn's telling of Frederick's life tries to do too much in too slight a novel. Reading Brodihn's book, I was reminded of Sharon Kay Penman's illustrious novels about the rise of Henry Plantagenat and Eleanor of Aquitane. Henry and Frederick were similar dynamos who dominated their age with charm, romance, arrogance, and military genius. But Penman took much longer to tell her tale (in multiple books, no less), and as a result Henry's world comes alive, while Bordihn's story falls sort of flat.
And Bordihn comes nowhere close to the magnificent recreation of the Roman world from Colleen McCullough's "Masters of Rome" series.
In general, the chapters are too darn short. Several chapters feel as if they are thrown in just to show a specific event occurring, and then we quickly move on to other events. There are several chapters where a character is put "on stage" merely to learn X, and then we get reaction Y, and then we move on. In so doing, Bordihn does not give the reader a chance to linger with these characters (other than Frederick and Bishop Berard, who are in the majority of the scenes).
For example, Frederick's eldest son and heir Henry, fails to register because he's offstage for 99% of the novel. This, despite the fact that he leads a rebellion against his father! An entire book could have focused on this tortured relationship, and yet Henry is little more than a cipher.
While Bordihn does spend quite a bit of time in Frederick's bedroom, to pretty good effect, the battlefield really gets short shrift here. Most battles occupy less than a page. After reading Stephen Pressfield, Bernard Cornwell, McCullough, and other masters of the genre of historical fiction, Bordihn's efforts here fall short.
One cannot quibble with Bordihn's research -- this book should qualify for several bonus points toward an advanced degree of some sort. Unfortunately, the story Ms. Brodihn tells based on all that research is too pedestrian and hurried to match her subject.
Still, I'm much more interested in this time period than I was before reading this book, and for that I thank Ms. Bordihn profusely.
Excellent historical novel.......2005-08-14
Interested in medieval Sicily, I found this book a wonderful read. I was impressed with the historical accuracy and how Ms. Brodihn made the characters come alive. I loved the historical asides--for those of us who could use some help in this department. In other words, the author never left anyone behind. I also loved the writing style and the rhetorical techniques she used to move the story at a brisk pace. I now have a renewed interest in Fredrick II. I hope this author will do something with the Sicilian Vespers, another very tellable story.
A fairly good read.......2005-07-28
The book has been well fairly researched in terms of historical accuracy and the author is someone who has by her own admission followed the life and times of King Frederick intensively.However the narrative is somewhat disrupted in places by small history lessons that tend to bring the reader out of the world of the characters and back into the classroom a little too much.There are some great storylines and one or two fairly well developed characters, all in all a fairly good read.I appreciate the difficulty in covering a persons whole life in one book while keeping the suspense going.
A Great Accomplishment !!.......2005-07-17
This novel of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick is a vivid, rich, multi-threaded narrative by a real master of the genre. It's a panoramic view of medieval rulers, politics, religion, alliances, manipulations, lovers -- a thick tapestry giving both the grand scale and the interrelated details. Frederick's skilled efforts at integrating the disparate Sicilian and German cultures, the diplomatic feats arising from his own cosmopolitan viewpoint, and his penetrating concentration on bettering the empire and its people are astonishing. The book does justice to a complex man of enormous ambition and his shifting and wide-ranging world. It's a huge achievement, but more than that it is a fascinating, vastly entertaining read! More, Ms. Bordhin, more!
Could have been better..........2005-06-21
Maria R. Bordihn's "Falcon of Palermo" encompasses too broad an aspect of Frederick II's history. The author attempts to paint a picture of his entire life history and sacrifices character development and plot cohesiveness as a result. Outside of Frederick and maybe Berard, there are no other characters that possess any unique qualities. They are, in fact, practically interchangeable. For example, Frederick's wives Isabella and Yolanda are virtually indistinguishable. There are too many faceless characters present who do nothing to enhance the story. Also, the frequent location shifts--from Sicily to Germany to the Crusades, back to Germany, etc.--give the story a rather choppy feel. The reader is never really sure where the setting of the passage he is reading is taking place. First he's in Rome with the Pope, then in Germany re-asserting his sovereignty, then Jerusalem negotiating with the Saracens. We never really know where he is at any given moment. It would have been better if Ms. Bordihn had concentrated on a more specific aspect of Frederick's life instead of trying to cram his entire history into the span of about 400 pages. I would liked to have read more in depth about his going on Crusade, for example. Judging from the overuse of the word "crimson," it is evident that Ms. Bordihn is well aware of the allegorical tie-in Frederick has to the rock group King Crimson. She even uses it as a verb ("he crimsoned..."). In short, I found "The Falcon of Palermo" to be a monumentous undertaking that just takes too huge a bite of its subject matter.
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From the New York Times bestselling author comes a captivating tale about a lady and an earl who are shocked when a harmless masquerade turns into a shattering vortex of danger and betrayal-and a fiercely passionate love.
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a dream book.......2007-06-10
i have read everything mary jo putney,every single book and like many i fell in love with the fallen angels,but this book was amazing i couldn't put it down. michael kenyon just took my heart he is a hero and a daling.
What an awesome education by way of romance.......2006-07-31
She saved the best for last (of the original Fallen Angels)
Even then I cannot say that with a straight face. I enjoyed all the original four of the fallen angel series.
I was so glad that the epilogue put a nice little bow on the ending, making me smile for several minutes after I closed the book.
As usual, you go through the heart wrenching emotions from the first chapter.
Of course, Ms Putney graced us with History as accurate as ever, and even added a fictional Island into the story to bring us everything we needed for our enjoyment.
I also loved the appearances by the other Fallen Angels, and a glimpse of our other "Honorary" fallen angels.
This is one of the best series I have read in a long time.
Awesome!!
Extraordinary Story!.......2006-06-29
Mary Jo Putney writes a wonderful, adventurous story from the first page to the very last. It is part of the Fallen Angel series and is probably the most fulfilling for me. From the first moment you meet the hero Michael Kenyon you find him extraordinarily passionate, strong and determined. Catherine (heroine) has very similar qualities plus being a very good mother. I don't think there are two better characters that are better suited for one another. The first time you meet these characters you see and feel their love for one another and yet they remain loyal to their own morals. And when they do get together, you can't help but cheer and hip, hip, hooray! Everything about this story was great and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did.
This book is sooo good!.......2004-12-25
I love this "Fallen Angel" series, and I have read every single one of the stories, except "River of Fire", which will be next if I can get my hands on it. Mary Jo Putney is definetely a gifted writer.
However I have to confess that I was not looking forward to this book that much, I guessed that because Michael is a soldier there would be too much war involved to my liking. And there was war alright. Almost half of the book takes place around the Penninsular Campaign and the Battle of Waterloo. Nonetheless, I was captured by this book from the first page. It was a real effort to put it down, when I had other duties to attend to. I should have had more faith in MJP talent.
The narrative was compelling and strong, the description of places and circumstances was so well done that I felt like I was watching a movie. By the way, why hasn't this book made into a movie? Sometimes I watch movies with huge budgets depicting this period and their stories are not half as good as this one. This novel has all the elements to be transformed into a great epic movie - war, action, adventure, intrigue, compelling and believable characters, inner struggles and love, lots of romance and love. I know I would rather watch a movie based on this novel than "The Last Samurai" or "Master and Comander" for example. It is a shame that Hollywood producers don't turn to romace novels for inspiration, because I think several I have read, specially from authors like Mary Jo Putney and Jo Beverley would make splendid motion pictures.
But I digress. Really there is not much I can add to what other reviewers have written about this book. I can only say it is magnificent. An example of what a romance novel should be like. I strongly recommend this book and the rest of the "Fallen Angels" series. Actually I recommend all books from Mary Jo Putney.
"Shattered rainbows", indeed..........2004-12-06
I have read and own nearly all of Mary Jo Putney's books. I love them all immensely; there's only one or two that I can think of that I did not enjoy. I love her books because in every story, there's a psychological depth that's almost tangible, but not quite. Very intriguing.
That's one of the reasons that I love "Shattered Rainbows" so much. Michael is very tortured; one might even say angsty. He has a deep past behind him, much of which gets revealed in very small quantities. He's always been my favorite Fallen Angel. I always wondered what his story was, and I was ecstatic when I first came across this book. He's restrained, controlled, loyal to a fault, and every woman's quintessential "dark lover". Who couldn't fall in love with a man like that?
Catherine is an intriguing character. She may seem docile and obedient, but in truth, she's not. She feels that she's not normal because of her difficulties with sex; which is really ironic in the sense that she's reputed to be most beautiful woman on the continent. She lies because she's almost forced to; and Michael and Catherine charading together leads a story of intrigue, on-the-edge-of-your-seat details, and scathing romance.
This story has a psychological depth to it like the rest of her books, but this one touched me more deeply than some of the others did. I was biting my nails the entire time I was reading through this. I agree with some of the other reviews; this is definitely not a light read. But, it's one worth reading, period.
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Rainbow Shattered
Shamie Qureshi
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Ray Read
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What would you do if you got a glimpse of your own personal future and it looked bleak? Try to change things, or accept that the future is unchangeable and make the best of it? In Flashforward, Nobel-hungry physicists conducting an unimaginably high-energy experiment accidentally induce a global consciousness shift. In an instant, everyone on Earth is "flashed forward" 21 years, experiencing several minutes of the future. But while everyone is, literally, out of their minds, their bodies drop unconscious; when the world reawakens, car wrecks, botched surgeries, falls, and other mishaps add up to massive death and destruction.
Slowly, as recovery efforts continue, people realize that during the Flashforward (as it comes to be called) they experienced a vision of the future. The range of visions is astounding--those who would be asleep in the future saw psychedelic dream landscapes, while others saw nothing at all (presumably they'd be dead). But those who saw everyday life 20 years hence have to come to grips with evidence of dreams forsaken (or realized). Soon, the physicists who caused the Flashforward are struggling to help the world decide whether the future is changeable--and whether the experiment is worth repeating. Robert J. Sawyer has captured a truly compelling idea with Flashforward, and he fully explores what such an event might mean to humanity. Fans will find this to be his best work to date, although the ending seems rushed after a detailed buildup. --Therese Littleton
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A scientific experiment begins, and as the button is pressed, the unexpected occurs: everyone in the world goes to sleep for a few moments while everyone's consciousness is catapulted more than twenty years into the future. At the end of those moments, when the world reawakens, all human life is transformed by foreknowledge.
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Great Book.......2007-07-28
Heard about this book on a Lost forum and was interested so I looked it up and ordered it. I finished the book in only a couple of days. Once I started reading I didn't want to stop. I also let my brother borrow the book when I was done and he read it within a couple days as well. Highly recommended.
What would a glimpse of the future do to you?.......2007-07-26
In 2009 a team of particle physicists pursuing the Higgs Boson, a theoretical subatomic particle, flip the switch at Geneva's huge new particle accelerator. Suddenly Lloyd Simcoe, project leader, finds himself naked in bed with a stranger, an old woman whose body feels like "fruit gone bad".
Horrified, he discovers he too is old, as if 20 years has disappeared. But before he can consummate some repulsive sexual act he is jolted back to his seat at the collider controls. Only to discover the whole world has been thrown into pandemonium - planes fallen from the sky, cars piled up on the highway, trains derailed.
Every human on the planet lost consciousness for two minutes, and most catapulted into a vision of their future.
The facility administrator, whose wife has yet to give birth, finds himself in an ugly confrontation with a surly, hostile son. Theo, Lloyd's young research partner, had no vision at all. He won't be around. His younger brother, an aspiring writer, envisions abject failure.
Lloyd believes these future visions are immutable. Though he loves his fiancée, Michiko (whose daughter was one of the accidental victims of the flash forward), there seems no point in marrying, since he will be married to another in 20 years. Theo, discovering that his death was a murder, becomes obsessed with finding his killer. Theo must believe he can change the future.
Canadian author and Nebula Award-winner Sawyer ("Frameshift," Factoring "Humanity"), is a crisp, incisive writer with a playful and keen imagination. He generates plenty of action from his psychological and paradoxical what-ifing. Excellent sci-fi which proves, whether Sawyer thinks so or not, that a glimpse of the future is a dangerous thing.
Great Concept Poor Execution.......2007-06-13
Great concept, but not a great execution. The characters are all unlikeable and behave in illogical manners. Worse, Sawyer has the tendency to tell, not show, and has an unfortunate taste for melodrama. He also has a strange view of what humanity will be like in 2020. Floating cars and androids. Well. We'll see. I'm still waiting on my rocket car promised to me by 1980 in old Bugs Bunny cartoons.
I started the book and liked the concept (being able to sneak a peek at the future). Then I finished the book and just felt vaguely unpleasant about it afterwards.
I'm reading this at the same time as Tipler's The Physics of Christianity, which turned out to be amusing, since one of the characters in the novel quotes Tipler, though not very well. Both books have a fascination with the Higgs Boson, so it was kind of interesting to read them in parallel.
What if you could live 2 minutes in your own future?.......2006-07-21
Flashforward starts with a whoppingly large temporal anomaly - the entire human race lives 2 minutes in their future selves, that future being roughly 20 years from now. When the anomaly is over, chaos ensues: planes and cars have crashed, security cameras have gone haywire, and no one knows what caused the event. No one, that is, except the heroes of the story, who are a group of scientists performing an experiment to produce the highest-energy conditions ever created by man. Theo Procopides and Lloyd Simcoe are particle physicists working at the particle accelerator in Switzerland. As they initiate their experiment, Lloyd has a vision of his future wife (a woman he'd not yet met), while Theo sees nothing. Theo later learns that he's been murdered by the time of the visions, and so had no future self to jump into. The mystery is on - both the Big Question mystery of what caused the event (and how to interpret the future visions), as well as the smaller mystery of who will kill Theo.
Naturally, the look into the future brings forth the debate about the nature of space-time and whether the multi-universe model or the fixed universe model is more accurate. Sawyer does well in negotiating and explaining the science behind the models, although as a chemist I can see a few holes in his science. No matter, the story is well written and avoids some obvious pitfalls (which plagued his earlier "Terminal Experiment"), such as trying to explain too much and trying to jab too many theories at the reader. Oddly, religion plays little role in the debate, which is a mainstay of other Sawyer works. I find this odd - surely a few billion people would interpret their vision as a divine work, rather than the result of an experiment.
I have to admit to a certain level of scientific frustration, however. It's not so much that Sawyer doesn't understand the science thoroughly (perhaps he does, and decided to gloss over certain points in the interest of the story). Rather, Sawyer makes the mistake of giving his arguments to the wrong characters. Surely Lloyd Simcoe, the particle physicist, would not be so cavalier about dismissing quantum theory. He works in the realm of quantum mechanics, and would surely be biased towards a quantum worldview rather than a relativistic one! Again, this is likely only to bother those of us (chemists and physicists) who are more comfortable with quantum theory.
Overall, on the scale of Sawyer offerings, this one is quite strong. It is not as good as "Calculating God", but certainly better than the second "Hominids" book, and better than "Terminal Experiment" as well.
A challenging thought experiment!.......2006-03-30
Like Schr?dinger's Cat, Flashforward is a confounding, challenging, magnificent thought experiment that is, at once, breathtakingly simply and yet staggering in its possible scope and ramifications.
Lloyd Simcoe and Theo Procopides (a pair of brilliant Canadian particle physicists ... hip, hip hooray!) are hot on the trail of the elusive Higgs Boson and the Nobel Prize that would almost certainly follow in the wake of success. To say that their experimental set up at CERN, Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider, producing over eleven hundred and fifty trillion electron volts - energy levels that haven't been seen since less than one billionth of a second after the Big Bang - went off the rails is an understatement of epic proportions. In fact, the experiment resulted in a complete shut down of humanity's collective consciousness and every single person in the world, awake or asleep, experienced a full two minute blackout. But what they also saw was, apparently, a crystal clear vision of a two minute segment of their own future twenty years ahead.
As people blackout for two minutes, the immediate mayhem and destruction is almost beyond imagining - car crashes, botched surgeries, people falling down stairs and off ladders, burns as people collapse into their hot stoves, planes falling out of the sky, fires as people drop the lit matches that happened to be in their hands. But, as the dust of the immediate disaster settles, the magnitude of what happened sinks in and people begin to coordinate their two minute peeks into a consolidated vision of the world's future twenty years hence. Sawyer's fertile imagination simply runs riot as he presents us a with a humorous, lucid and very personal peek into his version of how the world might look twenty years from now. I howled with laughter; I nodded in agreement and I cringed in disagreement and dismay at some of the snippets he hypothesized.
Take a gander at just a few examples:
"In 2017, at the age of ninety-one, Elizabeth II, Queen of England, died. Charles, her son, at that time sixty-nine, was mad as a loon, and, with some prodding from his advisors, chose not to ascend to the throne. William, Charles' eldest son, next in line, shocked the world by renouncing the throne, leading Parliament to declare the Monarchy dissolved."
"In 2019, South Africa completed, at long last, its post-Apartheid crimes-against-humanity trials, with over five thousand people convicted. President Desmond Tutu, eighty-eight, pardoned them all, an act, he said, not just of Christian forgiveness but of closure."
"Ozone depletion was substantial; people wore hats and sunglasses, even on cloudy days."
"Despite bans on their hunting, sperm whales were extinct by 2030."
"George Lucas still hadn't finished his nine-part Star Wars epic."
"The 2029 World Series will be won by the Honolulu Volcanoes."
"The President of the United States was African-American and male; there had apparently yet to be a female American president in the interim. But the Catholic Church did indeed now ordain women."
As people ponder the ramifications of what they've seen and experienced, the world becomes a global forum for a heated debate on the issues of determinism, free will and destiny. Social pressure quickly builds for a repeat of the experiment under world-wide controlled conditions and Sawyer treats us to a realistic, shocking example of cultures clashing in the forum of the United Nations.
Sadly, it's been my experience with Sawyer's novels, and this one doesn't break the pattern, that he has difficulty resolving a plot line and providing a satisfactory ending that is up to the incredibly high standard set by the rest of the novel. In a problem that is reminiscent of Hybrids, the ending to Flashforward, while it might be perceived as thought provoking to some people, is just a little bit too over the top Hollywood and, in my opinion, reduces a potentially great novel to a good one.
Keep `em coming, Robert. I'm a fan and I'm still looking forward to the next one!
Paul Weiss
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Flashforward
Robert J. Sawyer
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The author of Anyway delivers an inspirational new volume.
Kent M. Keith first articulated the ten timeless principles as a college student in the 1960s, and put them in the classic book Anyway. His modern credo for finding personal meaning in the face of adversity became a sensation and has been quoted for decades.
Now, the author presents an important and inspiring new book illustrating the paradoxical commandments through Bible stories and verses. In Jesus Did It Anyway, Keith draws from the Old and New Testaments to demonstrate how the paradoxical commandments are grounded in Scripture and the Christian faith.
Inspiring stories illuminate the paradoxical commandments by examining how Jesus and other biblical figures lived their faith against tremendous adversity-but always knew they were divinely blessed. In this enlightening book, Keith reveals how answering Jesus's call to live a paradoxical life can lead to the deepest personal meaning and spiritual fulfillment.
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HE DID, AND SO CAN YOU!.......2007-06-09
This is a must read for everyone! Keith gives another insight of how you can life your life more fully, and relate to others better. I totally recommend his book for everyone!
Jesus Did It Anway... so should we........2006-10-25
We are actually reading this book together in our Sunday School class. As one of the teachers in the class, I have picked up reading the book in a myriad of places and each time I do... a conversation about its content is sure to follow. Whether on a plane, at Starbucks or having a chat with my sister, the book has proved facinating. I have given away 2 of my personal copies already. Toaday I am actually just finishing my 3rd order online. I believe this book will help us as Christians change the world one person at a time. You really need to read this book... and make sure you give it away when your finished reading it.
Becoming more Christ-like.......2006-03-30
I am always looking for new and inspiring ways to improve my life. I found Kent Keith's message in his new book very influencing. If more people were to follow these "commandments", the world would be a kinder place in which to live. This book brought to mind the things we can do to becoming more Christ-like. It was easy to read and I liked the examples from Christ's life that helped to solidify the "commandment" in my mind.
Magnifent message but ..........2006-03-30
I believe the message in this book is certainly one if we lived by it the world would be a better place. I think many of us have seen the sayings the Author outlines as his around for some time actually I have seen it attributed to Mother Teresa before and this Author says he wrote them in college. Who know's and Mother Teresa wouldnt care anyway. Just had a strange ring to it when written in that context that 'they're mine' not hers. But ... the message is something we should all live by.
Publishers Weekly is right - .......2006-03-29
The book is a great introduction to Christian Scripture. It provides a practical, interesting way of understanding the great stories and teachings of the Bible. I'm not a regular church-goer, and I'm not sure I would call myself religious, but this book is straight forward and makes sense of the Bible and the teachings of Jesus in a way that I have never seen before, inviting us to live the paradoxical life that Jesus did.
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