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Successful author and famous intellectual Marya Knauer did not always occupy such a secure and comfortable position in life. Her memories of her childhood in Innisfail, New York are by turns romantic and traumatic. The early violent death of her father and abandonment by her mother have left her with a permanent sense of dislocation and loss. After decades apart, Marya becomes determined to find the mother who gave her away. In searching for her past, Marya changes her present life more than she could ever have imagined. Vividly evoking the natural beauty of rural upstate New York, and the complex emotions of a woman artist, Marya: A Life is one of Joyce Carol Oates's most deeply personal and fully-realized novels.
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Oates' most autobiographical novel.......2002-10-14
This incredibly prolific author has readily admitted to this novel as her most autobiographical. Marya whirlwinds through the brutality of schoolyard life, the angst of adolescence, the trials of academia, the upsets of failed relationships. In the loosest sense, this is a Bildungsroman, the tale of a young person on the make. If one scene in the novel stands in the reader's memory, it would be an episode about a third of the way through when the school's English teacher is tormented by the class to the point of nervous breakdown.. The episode invites comparison with what happens early along in another Bildungsroman, Richler's THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ.
This story is Marya's life, but in some strange way Marya is an outsider, someone less at the centre of events than someone pushed round by them. Self-awareness is her salvation; if not for Marya, then for everyone around her we are reminded of Nietzsche's words about nondescript people who register their presence in the world with a kind of dumb amazement. Everything Marya does shows her on a level of understanding far beyond that of her kin, her classmates, her coworkers. Halfway through the novel (p. 137), we have the intellectually precocious Marya, for whom "every word of LEAR [was] hooked in flesh and could not be dislodged." [218 words]
Good but Oates has done better.......2002-06-29
It was Virginia Woolf who decried the lack of literature about the lives of the masses, the everyday folk: "All these infinitely obscure lives remain to be recorded," she said. Of course, she didn't promise to read them!
In MARYA, A LIFE, Oates attempts to fill that void. Marya is a portrait of a modern woman from a bewildered childhood to a womanhood that commands admiration, respect and love. She is a loner, bright and different from the people around her. She strives for self understanding and fulfillment.
Joyce Carol Oates is a meticulous storyteller and a vivid writer. I wonder if this is autobiographical. If so, the Woolf reference becomes irrelevant. Oates is definitely ordinary folk -- she is one of the finest and most recognized writers on the contemporary American literary scene.
But if you're in the mood for a book about a woman growing up and "making it" on her own, you'll enjoy this one.
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True to form, the last sentence came through........2002-01-17
I read this book and couldn't help thinking that I was just "hearing" an account of someone's life. I felt as if I was missing something which I was. And it came out in the last sentence of this amazing and I don't know how she does it book by Joyce Carol Oates. Between "Them", "Do With Me What You Will". "You Must Remember This", and Short Stories written by this woman, I don't know how she knows, how can she get into "our" lives, "our" minds, "our" thoughts, and write so knowingly and correctly about life with such feeling and understanding, I'll never comprehend, just wish if only I had the insight and ability she has. A friend years ago said this book was written as if about my personal family and knowledge she had about our life, but this book was everyone's story, no one could not relate. Again, I thank Joyce Carol Oates for her knowing. I am sure she would understand the previous sentence.
Character development like only Oates can deliver.......1999-07-17
This is another great book by Oates, that really takes you into the mind of the character. At times it is a bit erratic, and even tedious, but in a style that makes you want to read on. It is a good read if you love the descriptive style of Oates and don't require a lot of dialog and action to maintain your attention.
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- The twisted tangle of wyrd continues
- Not as good as the first one.
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Darkspell (Deverry Series, Book Two)
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On the long roads of Deverry ride two mercenaries whose fates like hidden deep in that of their own land. But Lord Rhodry, exiled from the dragon court of Aberwyn, has yet to discover his true parentage, and his swordmaster-lover, Jill, has barely glimpsed her awesome powers. Meanwhile, the ancient sorcerer Nevyn, held back by his vows from boldly intervening in their lives, can only watch and wait as Rhodry and Jill move ever closer to danger. For as the two struggle to recover the Great Stone, the mystic jewel that guides the conscience of the kingship of Deverry, malevolent dark masters are weaving terrifying spells against them--and displacing messengers of death.
Katharine Kerr has extensively rewritten Darkspell, incorporating major changes in the text, making this her definitive edition. Here the epic saga that began with the Daggerspell continues--a tale of might and magic, lust and glory, dark danger and poignant desires that echo from Deverry's sapphire waters to its secret mountain caverns. It's a spellbinding story destined to please fantasy lovers everywhere.
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The twisted tangle of wyrd continues.......2007-09-20
As with all books that begin a series, Katharine Kerr spent a lot of time in "Daggerspell" just introducing us to her characters and the land of Deverry. In "Darkspell," she's able to relax a little bit, letting us get to know Jill, Rhodry, and the rest of the characters rather than simply sort out what role they play. As a result, I found "Darkspell" even more enjoyable, and ultimately more representative of the series as a whole.
In the present, Jill and Rhodry are riding the long road as exiles from the court of Rhodry's vindictive brother. Unfortunately, the dweomer - both light and dark - has marked these two, and they quickly find themselves drawn once again into the middle of a battle they can barely even begin to understand. Luckily, the ancient dweomermaster Nevyn is along to pull their stones out of the fire, although he of course has an ulterior motive - to bring Jill to her true power in the dweomer and thus fulfill a centuries-old vow so he can die, already.
Boom! Cut to the past. Adding another column to her table of incarnations, Kerr gives us Jill as a berserker priestess of the Warrior Goddess, with Rhodry as her loyal but spineless lieutenant and Cullyn (disappointingly absent in the present incarnation) as the arrogant lord who wants her to break her vows of celibacy. I should note that the one quibble I have with Rhodry and Cullyn's past lives is that they bear very little resemblance to their current characters. Even Jill, and her many incarnations, have nothing in common with the original Brangwen. It doesn't hurt the story any, it just irks me. Anyway. I enjoyed this episode even better than the two described in "Daggerspell" - it just seemed more rich, more fraught with tension and danger. It also gives us some history that's going to be muy importante later, so pay attention.
We meet some interesting new characters this time around, who will become integral in later books - Blaen, Rhodry's cousin, and Salamander, his half-elven brother, in particular. There are a couple villains, more well-defined than the nebulous forces of darkness arrayed against our heroes in "Daggerspell." All of this combines to make "Darkspell" a more personal story, one that deeply invests us in the many lives of its characters. We are starting to see the outlines of the grand arc of the series here, the pattern which these many characters will weave over the course of their multiple lifetimes. Readers who found "Daggerspell" too confusing and distant should stick it out for at least this one sequel; I guarantee that most of you will enjoy it even more.
Not as good as the first one........2006-12-04
Something I really liked about the first book ("Daggerspell") was how the characters weren't divided into "heroes" and "villains". There were only humans, imperfect, flawed, but trying to do the right thing, some with more success than others.
Thus I was rather disappointed when I bought this book and WHAM, Nevyn was a saint and the enemy was consorting with the Lords of Darkness themselves. Where did that come from?
Second of the Ten (currently) available.......2006-08-01
On the long roads of Deverry ride two mercenaries whose fates lie hidden deep in that of their land. But Lord Rhodry, exiled from the dragon court of Aberwyn, has yet to discover his true parentage, and his swordmaster-lover, Jill, has barely glimpsed her awesome powers. Meanwhile, the ancient sorcerer Nevyn, held back by his vows from boldly intervening in their lives, can only watch and wait as Rhodry and Jill move ever closer to danger. For as the two struggle to recover the Great Stone, the mystic jewel that guides the conscience of the kingship of Deverry, malevolent dark masters are weaving terrifying spells against them--and dispatching messengers of death. Inextricably bound to the fate of the land, Nevyn, Rhodry, and Jill struggle to unite the humans of Deverry with the powerful, mysterious, and once-hostile race of Elves. But theirs is a bold and dangerous venture that soon is undearthed by the sinister sorcerers of Annwn. These malevolent magicians know all too well that the joining of the two races--together with their mystical powers--will ultimately destroy their evil empire. In an uneasy alliance of dark forces, the sorcerers strike out to stop the union. And now, it is up to Nevy, the ancient and cunning wizard, to find a way to save his comrades and the destiny of Deverry...if only he himself can survive the wrath of Annwn's deadly magic.
Katherine Kerr's writing takes a bit of getting used to, but it's worth the effort. She approaches her stories with a Celtic storytelling mindset, which means she conveys events according to their significance to the story, as opposed to chronologically. Consequently, while the stories begin in the "present" (which is an elastic concept, anyway, in a fantasy setting), the events unfold, chapter wise, both in the "present" and in the distant past. This can be frustrating, at first, but Kerr's writing is heavily steeped in Pagan and Western Mystery tradition, and the Celtic setting (and mindset) of her characters means that time, or chronological time, is not essentially relevant. To be honest, I found the first book infuriating, as I spent a lot of time trying to adjust to the writing style. However, I found the story engrossing enough that I persevered, and by the second book was so hooked I've read all ten in her three series.
Kerr's story evolves around the concept of reincarnation, and unfinished business, and "karma", and fate. The same souls recur again and again, just in new bodies, over the course of the centuries over which the story unfolds.
Kerr's world is one of High Fantasy, populated by Elves, Men, and Dwarves, as well as faeries/elementals, which she terms the "Wildfolk". However, hers is a slightly more dark, dangerous and less clear cut world than the works of other High Fantasy authors, not the least due to the fact that someone who was your friend in a former life can re-emerge in the story centuries later as a foe, and vice versa. There is a tremendous amount of magic, but it's the magic of the Western Mystery tradition (quite a bit of Golden Dawn and even Enochiana), and that of R.J. Stewarts Faery tradition. There are dragons, and giant beast men.
The Elves are a fallen race, driven out of their magnificent and palatial cities centuries before by invaders, and who now roam the plains as primitives. They possess the potential to be superlative magicians, but the knowledge was lost in the fall of their civilization. Humans, though warlike and shorter lived, have preserved this knowledge, but guard it jealously. The Wildfolk, basically magic incarnate, are unhinged from the effects of "karma", but lack permanence of personality, and cannot grow or develop, cursed to stagnation. The Dwarves are a secretive mystery, entrenched within the earth. Each has something to offer the other, and the story that unfolds is the story of this "technology" exchange, of sorts, between them.
Fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley, who clearly influenced Kerr, will be enraptured by this series, as will fans of Kate Eliott, who Kerr, herself, clearly influenced. It's phenomenal! Devotees of the New Age, Esoteric or Occult will find themselves nodding and smiling as they read, and sincerely hoping Kerr's writing will do for the Western Mystery and Faery traditions what Bradley's has done for Wicca.
Still coherent, and some nice moments.......2005-04-15
Still some nice things running in this series. Kerr's reincarnation structure gives her the freedom to run off into `new' self-contained stories within the one larger story: they still relate to (particularly with the continuity of Nevyn) and shape `current' events, but give the satisfaction of some internal resolution. Half this volume is devoted to a virtual novella set three-hundred years prior, and Kerr has the fun of yet again playing out her basic characters with a few intriguing alternatives - very much the parallel universe feel. I found the Gweniver-Dannyn-Ricyn incarnation more potent than the attached `main' storyline, which was OK, sort of a drug-dealer whodunit, but not as enjoyable. Besides, I always hate it when charismatic heroes go broody, and hopefully Rhodry will be able to make his peace with his lowered status and make better company in the next book.
I didn't enjoy it as much as Daggerspell, but she's hardly dropped the ball here, and the form she's running with is still coherent and satisfying. Some things are potentially worrying - getting the balance right so Nevyn doesn't find everything too easy (cf. Belgareth), but can still bring justice and some impressive majesty (cf. Gandalf): it is nice that she doesn't have him being too coy about his powers if need be. I think she overuses the flashes of `dweomer-cold' that so many characters inexplicably have: sure you can have magic, but it's not as satisfying if it can just be inserted randomly - it should cost something and work within its own suspension of disbelief parameters/logic - in other ways it does in this series.
Almost, but not quite.......2003-07-28
This is the first Katherine Kerr novel I've read and I generally enjoyed it. She is a solid storyteller with no real weaknesses apparent in this book. She has a knack for creating memorable characters with credible motivations. The world she has invented is very well imagined and thoroughly integrated. The way in which magic functions in this world is very interesting. I also liked the ideas behind the Deverry religion. Kerr has obviously spent some time researching Welsh culture and history, and it has served her well here. The idea of a race or society from our world being transported part-and-parcel to another is a popular one in fantasy fiction, but it does provide for a believable background to the story. On the whole, I found the book to be quite engaging.
The only thing preventing me from giving this book four (or more) stars is a strange underlying current of homophobia. The only gay characters are a pair of evil sorcerers who use rape to generate power and their sniveling victim. On at least two occasions, one of the main characters even reacts to the very idea of homosexuality with horror and disgust, leaving the reader to wonder where the author stands on the issue. I'm not saying that a book can't have a gay villain, of course, but with these characters, Kerr almost seems to make their sexuality part and parcel of their evil. As it is, however, it's as if someone had written a cop drama in which the only black or Hispanic character in the whole story was the violent murderer.
If you can get past this small detail, or if such things don't bother you as much as they do me, you should enjoy this novel.
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Darkspell
Katharine KERR
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Darkspell
Manufacturer: Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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Too much information.......2005-12-20
The problem with this book is it "reveals" all the mysteries of Known Space back to before the Big Bang -- the ultimate spoiler. Worse, it's neither a very convincing or interesting set of revelations. A bad idea, with mediocre execution.
Fills in Gaps at the Expense of Story.......2005-08-13
This book promised to answer a lot of questions left hanging in Larry Niven's "Know Space" universe. On this score, it delivers. We learn more about the enigmatic Outsiders and their motivations, we learn more about the Pak and about the Puppeteers. We even learn a bit of explanation for the existence of the Ringworld. All of these make the book worthwhile. I just wish that the story which containted these snippets of information had been more enjoyable.
The story concerns two people from Earth on a suicide mission headed for Wunderland to fight the Kzin. Along the way, they are abducted by Outsiders and used as pawns for the purposes of the outsiders who are themselves just pawns for other beings. It is in the telling of this story that much background for Known Space is filled in. The problem is that the story starts out well and then just gets more and more abstruse. While incorporating cosmological physics the story degenerates to metaphysics. Part of this is due to the nature of cosmology itself. It is a weird science. Much of it, though, is just because the story is entirely too strange to be enjoyed, at least by me.
Still, I did enjoy having the gaps filled in. It was not a wasted day.
Not recommended by Known Space fan.......2005-08-06
I have read all works in Known Space save that which is not yet available in paperback. This is one of the few titles that was a disappointment. As others have mentioned, it does get off to a good start. Things get a little bit odd, though, and I found myself pushing myself through to get to the ending. The ending was the biggest let down.
Before I talk about why the ending was such a let down, I should mention something about this work. Most of this novel already appears as a part of "Man Kzin Wars VII." The last portion of the novel is the only portion that appears only in this printing, and it contradicts some of what is known about Niven's Known Space. Even with that contradiction, the ending doesn't serve as a satisfying way to end this particular story, which means those who aren't familiar with the Known Space world will probably be less disappointed with it than those that are.
My advice to Known Space fans is to pick up "Man Kzin Wars VII" instead of this. You'll get two other stories, and the best parts of "A Darker Geometry" without the worst parts. If you aren't already familiar with Known Space, get the "Ringworld" novels, "Protector," "Three Books of Known Space," or some other work written by Niven himself that serves as a better introduction to a complex universe.
A horrible, incomprehensible novel.......1999-10-23
As I picked this book up off the shelf without prior knowledge to whatever fiction universe it belongs to, I must base my review solely on this book. In other words, other books in the "Known Space" series may very well be better, but I couldn't stand "A Darker Geometry".
The first three or four chapters are intriguing, and kept me reading. I must say I enjoyed the way life in space and the kzinti perspective were handled -- you really got into the minds of the characters for a while. However, incomprehensible nonsense such as the conversations between the "Outsiders" added absolutely nothing to the book, and probably took a lot away. Physics and philosophy bogged the story down rather than giving it flight. I barely made it through the book. The ending was also poor.
All in all, I think the only people I could recommend this book to are fans of the Known Space novels, or people with lots of free time to try and figure out the philosophical aspects of this book.
Fine for Bedford fans........1997-06-14
Though fairly new to SF I've read a lot of Benford
over the last year. This book though enjoyable is not up to the standard of works like Timescape or Across the Sea of Suns. The plot is somewhat confused beginning with the sort 'War In Space' I associate with the chessy SF I knew in my teen years. Then it branches off into broader notions of cosmology first explored in the Galactic Centre series and mixes in a love triangle in which 2 of the parties are different representations of the same person
A good read. If you enjoy Benford as I do, I think it's worthwhile
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Roles of the Northern Goddess presents a highly readable study of the worship of the pre-Christian, Northern goddesses. With its use of evidence from early literature, popular tradition, legend and archaeology, this book investigates the role of the early hunting goddess and the local goddesses who were involved in all aspects of the household and the farm. What emerges is that the goddess was both benevolent and destructive, a powerful figure closely concerned with birth and death and with the destiny of individuals.
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By investigating women's special skills related to goddess cults together with legends and popular traditions, the author explores the importance of the goddess as a subject for study today.
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A pretty decent book.......2007-01-06
The other reviewers have already listed the books downfalls but it's still a much better work than "Goddess of the North" by Linda Welch.
I recommend it!
Faulty premise leads to faulty conclusions.......2002-12-25
This is quite likely the worst book HRED has written. That said, there is still much of value. To find it though, one must wade through the author's agenda- she was in her One Great Goddess phase- and incomplete as well as unconnected examples of, well, sometimes one can't be quite sure just what she is trying to say or prove.
If your starting point is the premise that there was One Great Goddess, fine, you will love this book. If you want a scholarly evalution of Germanic goddesses, you will need to go elsewhere.
Long and winding evidence to support goddess worship.......2001-07-17
The tenor of this book is one of attempting to peer through centuries of Christian influence to show what the religion of the goddess may have been like. But in almost every of its presentations often is too loose in character to be truly fulfilling and abounds in conditional statements. It probably fails most in how it presents the subject in categories and then presents examples from the observations and works of others in an attempt to bring things to light. In doing so it tends to lose your appreciateion of variation in perceptions over time and place, which is understandable due to the scarcity of hard and sure information. But then it is this lack of certainty that makes it a book of possitbilites rather than information. However, if it were not for the obvious continuation of goddess worship into the Christian age with the Virgin Mary, I might doubt that there were any widespread goddess cults simply from the arguments this book provides.
It might have been better to have divided the book up by region, rather as History of Pagan Europe does. Instead the dearth of hard evidence is supplemented by comparisons to notions of goddess worship much further south of north. At best it is a collection of what can be said in a scholarly manner, but is rather too dull of a presentation to be an exceptional read.
Comparative Study Yields Solid Information.......2001-06-22
Davidson has produced a useful book on Northern European Goddess history and tradition. She draws on early literature, legend, folk traditions (and records of now extinct folk traditions), and archaelogy to construct several categories of functioning for the Goddesses. She discovers Goddesses who are both nurturing and demanding, healing and destructive, revered and feared. Davidson includes Celtic, Norse, Finnish, and Latvian Goddesses, and frequently compares them to Mediterranean and Near Eastern Goddess roles.
She first considers the Goddess as Mistress of the animals, examining her roles as Hunting Goddess, Ruler of the Wild, Guardian of the diary [sic] herds, as Dog and Horse Goddess.
Next, she examines the Goddess as Mistress of the Grain, considering the most ancient roots associating Goddesses with fertility of the earth, the connection between Goddess and plough, the possibility of Goddess as Corn Spirit, and how the Grain Goddess of the North differed from Grain Goddesses of more temperate regions.
Davidson then takes up the Goddess as Mistress of the Distaff and Loom, looking both the context of Goddess and weaving in the ancient world as well as the differences in Northern Europe. She considers the Oseberg wall-hagnings, retrieved from a burial site, and illuminates Goddess figures found there. She also examines the interplay between weaving and destiny, the Goddess as Weaver of Fate.
In addition, she considers the domestic role of the Goddess as Mistress of the Household. She discusses Guardians of the home, the association between Goddess and fire and water, and the role of the Goddes in the birth and nurturing of children.
Finally, she examines the Goddess as Mistress of Life and Death, writing of her role as healer and in the realm of death. She also considers Northern European funeral rites and how they help us understand the roles of the Goddess.
Davidson points out that when we sentimentalize the Goddess, as so many white-light-bunny-fluff-goddess-of-the-week books do, we lose a great deal. She draws on Jung in her synthesis that the Goddess is both attractive and nurturing as well as repulsive and frightening. In her conclusion she points out that the Goddess was much more than simply the "Great Mother."
The book has a useful index and an excellent bibliography. It was poorly copy edited, however, with several typos. I also wish that Davidson had done a better job of separating out the layers of history through which she excavates. The meaning of stone-age evidence is poorly differentiated from the meanings of myths recorded in the middle ages or folk practices recorded in the 17th century. This is a significant problem which the book poorly addresses.
Five stars for depth and breadth, but knocked down to four stars for the failure to explicitly consider the impact of various historical contexts on the available evidence and on her interpetation of it.
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Excellent Book.......2001-01-30
Hail! I highly recommend this book to those whom walk the Way of the Lady(Freya). Freya is a goddess of witchcraft(called seithr in Old Norse), love, and nature(lets also remember that the word witch is Anglo Saxon, thus Teutonic). I suggest reading this book next to Witchdom of the True by Edred Thorsson. For Frith and Kinfolk, Isenwulf Wodheart
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