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One of Gabriel García Márquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power.
From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictator-ship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real.
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A universal masterpiece.......2007-08-30
I have read the Hebrew translation and parts of the English one. Translation-wise the Hebrew one is an amazing work fully capture the spirit and richness of the Language. One of those that makes you wonder if the original one is as good as the translated one (and, yes, I know it is much better). As for the book, in my view, it is the best work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez so far, and I believe I have read all of his books.
An Epic Latin-American Poem .......2006-08-25
This novel, written in a stream of incessant imagery of beauty and cruelty, is a masterpeice of narrative skill. One must be 'in the mood' to tackle the work which is dense and whose language is difficult at first. I say at first because, once underway, and the narrative understood, the book unfolds like a dream.
This book is a testament to Marquez's skill. The events that take place (three hundred donkey-pulled pianos falling into a ravine/ the attempt to hide two thousand children)are almost beyond comprehension. I finished the book last night and was beside myself. The use of language and imagery will stay with me forever. This book alone should've earned Marquez his Nobel prize.
And don't think the style of the novel is pretensious or used to make something easy difficult. There are many literary devices at play but all to serve the purpose of the story.
This book should also be interesting for anyone curious about the lonliness and insanity of despotism.
And don't be fooled by Oprah and the critics, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is NOT his best book by any means. "The Autumn of the Patriarch" is where 'magical-realism' really comes to life.
For anyone intersted in contemporary literature or something wholly original, this novel is a must.
Gabo's prose masterpiece.......2006-08-24
While it lacks the startling originality and narrative sweep of "One Hundred Years of Solitude," this novel is Gabriel Garcia-Marquez's masterpiece of prose. The story is good and the many surreal touches are magnificent and deployed to great political effect (the selling of the sea, for example, is an unforgettable image of impoverished nations selling their natural resources to wealthy nations and only suffering from the transaction), but the real story here is Gabo's prose: he channels William Faulkner to create a style that's as sinuous and labyrinthine--and beautiful--as anything yet accomplished in our Western Hemisphere.
Just kidding.......2006-01-12
I recognize this book as the work of genius it actually is but I am put out of sorts by the fact that it challenges me in my way of thinking and forces me to re-read passages that are at times difficult and too unpredictble for my tv addled mind. I feel compelled to critically penalize you for confronting me with life's inherent contradiction through litterature. Mr. Marquez, you lose stars for not letting me think I am as bright as I like to think I am. Just kidding folks.... Will and Grace anyone?
A very important work.......2005-11-04
I can't say that "Autumn of the Patriarch" fits into the mould of novel writing. It is, however, an examination of a despot and the wreck of his poisoned kingdom. Filled with black humour and grotesque images, it pulls the reader forward in spite of the endless sentences. One can almost see the squalor and smell the rubbish in the city. I would hesitate to compare it to anything else that Marquez has written because it is so different but what it does have is Marquez profound insight into the ways and failings of mortals.
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El Otono Del Patriarca / The Autumn Of The Patriarch
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This one of the most important novels written by this author which everyone must read.
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Mother Of Stream of Consciousness Latin American Novels.......1998-08-22
Garcia-Marquez dictator combines within himself, the best and the worst, of the human being when invested with absolute power: from charity to corruption, benevolence to rape, fear of God to extreme cruelty. The (sparse) punctuation follows an almost strict fitting of the Poisson statistical distribution, page by page, and then amongst chapters, constituting this into both a textbook in literature and statistics. To some of us the most masterful novel of the Master Novelist of Meridian America.
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The past and future of Sanctuary hang in the balance in this tale of intrigue, politics, magic, and sacrifice from veteran writer Lynn Abbey.
Life in the city of Sanctuary has moved on from the days of Jubal and Tempus, and the epic adventures of gods and men are already degrading into myth and superstition. Molin Torchholder, who carries the only living memories of these times, knows that the future of Sanctuary depends on preserving them. With assassins on his trail, Molin must prepare a successor to hold and protect the secret truths of Sanctuary. And Cauvin, a survivor of the cruel pits of the Bloody Hand, will have a series of difficult choices to make as he is drawn deeper into Molin's desperate struggle.
Readers new to Sanctuary (the core setting of numerous Thieves' World stories) will find enough backstory to make this novel accessible. Fans should be delighted with the wealth of historical references, new and familiar characters, and high adventure that Abbey weaves together. --Roz Genessee
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From the Bestselling Fantasy Adventure Series, Thieves' World (tm)Created by Robert Lynn Asprin amp; Lynn AbbeyReturn To The City That Would Not Die!Return To Thieves' World!Return To Sanctuary!Thieves' World was the bestselling and first of the shared world phenomenon, selling well over a million copies of anthologies detailing the exploits and intrigues of the high-born and low-born denizens of Sanctuary, a city that has seen many masters.The Age of Ranke and the reign of Kadakithis, the occupation of the Beysib, the war of the gods and indeed the erstwhile Renaissance are now all in the past. Memories of heroes and villains, glory and savagery have all been relegated to the shadows of yesteryear as present-day residents once again apply themselves to the task at hand: survival.Only Molin Torchholder, architect of Sanctuary's glory and master of her secrets. knows the whole truth, but he is dying . . . He must hold on until he can pass along the city's hidden history of empires come and gone and blood shed for reason and naught. Aiding him are a lowly laborer named Cauvin, himself a survivor of one of the city's darkest moments, and a young boy named Bec.So many secrets and so little time. And as Molin's chronicles of the past unfold, even darker forces return, an evil that jeopardizes the very survival of a city that until now has always refused to die.Sanctuary - An Epic Novel of Thieves' World ushers in a whole new age of tales, a whole new age of Thieves' World.
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A Good Crossover.......2006-05-28
Lynn Abbey has resurrected Sanctuary from Thieves World again. She has started a new series based on the old and needed a crossover book to bring the old readers up to date and try and fill in the back ground for the new readers. The only character from the "old" series is Molin Torchholder and he is in trouble. He has enlisted a new character named Cauvin and his younger brother Bec to help him.
The book revolves around a cult of murderers that has returned to Sanctuary from the past and they are out to kill Molin. At this point in the book, Molin is very old and the past is in the distant past with all of the old characters gones with the exception of one that makes a brief period at the end of the book.
"Sanctuary" is a very good crossover from the original series to the new. While the book nevers goes into great detail about the past, the reader is getting a nice thumbnail that covers the general storyline. As all brief descriptions, much is left out for brevity, but the very base is there. Abbey has done a good job of making the new book read like the old series and that could not have been easy.
The old characters are mentioned, but much like all history they are not really remebered right except by those of us that read the original series. I suggest that you read or reread the original series because you will be surprised how much you forget, but if you do not want to return to the past you do not need to either. Highly Recommended.
Thieves' World is back..........2004-08-03
and here is not just the first novel but the first book of the new generation of books about the old city. Molin Torchholder, survivor of wars, magic battles and all the dangers of the city itself, has killers on his tail. Good ones. With the help of the cursing Cauvin, the son of a stoneyard owner, and Cauvin's younger bother, Bec, Molin MIGHT be able to protect Sanctuary before he dies. But it'll be a close one.
I took away a few stars for many reasons. Cauvin cusses too frogging much, seems a tad too slow and, in a character driven plot line, it just seemed the author used his slowness to add a few hundred extra pages. The book is 533 pages long and much of it is Cauvin trying to think of what to do when not cussing his bad luck.
Also, there was a lot of information about the past - we learn about the Hand, but also about events that happened in the first books. A lot of names are dropped - Tempus, Jubal, Kadakithis and even Hakiem - which fans, old or new, may enjoy. But all these scenes seemed more like a data dump to me and slowed the action, what little there was, down. The story didn't even really start to move till the last few chapters.
It can't be helped - a story needs a starting point, a foundation. You have to cook the meal before you eat it. After all, this is the first book of the return to the world of 'Thieves' World' and I would suggest reading this one first. But it is still long, slightly boring in some parts and throws a lot of both old history and not-so-old history at you.
For fans it is a must, but once done I doubt you'll wish to re-read.
A return to Thieve's World.......2004-07-06
Time has passed. Molin Torchholder is dying. He picks an heir, or to be precise the Gods seem to pick his heir, a boy named Cauvin who is just growing into a man. It is an interesting tale of the passing of a torch and, as in all the tales of thieves world, there is the usual array of villains. The Vulgar Unicorn has survived, of course, and is still a meeting ground. The Red Light District has fallen on hard times. Trade has declined, but occasional ships still show up in the harbor. Sanctuary is somewhat down at the heels, and the coinage is debased.
This is an interesting tale about the battle against an evil cult, but it has flashbacks to earlier times. For someone who has not read the other novels, the information is fragmentary. For someone who has read the novels, and is fully familiar with the setting, the digressions into the past seem to be overdone and distracting.
The story does not quite reach a full conclusion as one of the evil people escapes. One can guess that the author is planning a sequel. In Thieves World, there are always stories to be told.
Welcome to the Relaunch!.......2003-08-02
This volume is the relaunch to the Thieves World shared universe created by Abbey and Robert Asprin, which, as I recall, fired up around 1979 or so and ran through the '80s before sputtering to a halt. Thieves World was the precursor to such later series as George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards, C.J. Cherryh's Merovingen Nights, and Will Shetterly and Emma Bull's Liavek. The present volume picks up some years after the events of the twelfth installment of the original series. (In addition to the anthologies and mosaic novels, there seem to have been five stand-alone novels by the dreaded Janet and Chris Morris, against whom I continually rail, inasmuch as I hold their vile contributions to be directly responsible for killing both Thieves World and Merovingen Nights. Be that as it may, their five books evidently dealt with the despicable Tempus and his cronies and I believe they largely took place outside of the city of Sanctuary itself.)
Most everyone the longtime fan knew from back in the day is dead, fled, or vanished. Pretty much the only major figure left is an eighty-year-old Molin Torchholder, and due to circumstances he has to more or less dictate his memoirs in a nifty little ploy that allows the old school readers to dredge up memories of the first series while giving new readers a bit of background on the setting. This device makes it pretty apparent how wildly out of control the series had become and how critical it is to have a strong editorial hand (such as Martin) at the helm to reject the stupider ideas. My opinion is that very few of the authors could content themselves with "writing small" and with telling quiet little tales of interesting but limited and flawed characters. Very rapidly, after the first couple of books, every contributer wanted to turn their amps up to 11, and so each new character became deadlier, angrier, and more brutal than the last, and each of them seemed designed specifically as grudge monsters who were meant only to humiliate or eliminate the pre-existing characters. Not to mention that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as it were, rode through the city so often that it became ludicrous. Authors began to show off and have gods duking it out in the street, or had the city invaded again and again by awesome new and never-before-suspected threats from all quarters of the globe, or tossed in legions of the undead or bands of invincible and sneering warriors. In hearing Molin relate the whole sorry mess, it just really seems ludicrous in retrospect.
This particular addition to the milieu is a necessary but somewhat awkward bridge between the decades-old material accumulated over the first run of the series and the new tales that follow in the newest collection of short stories (entitled Turning Points) that has just become available. (Another volume, First Blood, will be rolling out soon.) Quite likely, it can be skipped, and it may only really be compelling reading for continuity devotees who need to acquire each Thieves World volume for their collections.
Now that Abbey has cleaned the slate by jumping the series into the future so that everyone has keeled over or wandered off, Thieves World can enjoy a fresh start and avoid the mistakes of the past. In Cauvin and Bec, the Thieves World setting has a couple of interesting characters to serve as a starting point, with the help of some of the supporting cast, such as Soldt. Here's hoping that Abbey can prevent future contributors under control so that Sanctuary will not again implode under the weight of overly ambitious and byzantine plots and the hordes of grandiose heroes and villains.
A fond return..........2003-08-01
Shared worlds often suffer from the problem of a major theme emerging and all the stories turning to that theme, even if that means sacrificing something along the way. Somewhere around the sixth book or so of the Thieve's World series, I felt that some of what I enjoied most about the stories had been lost as an overall story arc developed.
When I bought Sanctuary, I was not optimistic, but I remembered the early stories fondly enough to take the risk. Boy, am I glad I did! Not only did I enjoy the book once I got into it, but the flashbacks to Sanctuary's past make me think that I should go back a read all the stuff I mssed in the original series.
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The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun, V. 3)
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Not Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
The title delineates a role that Severian, whose memoirs these books
purport to be, must play. It is an office of duty. Being a torturer and
executioner, he is called upon to kill yet another woman, He refuses
one of these due to emotion, and has to leave.
More than just SCI FI.......2000-06-15
The novel continues the story of Severian and leads him through new adventures which confront him with new perspectives and thoughts. This book is more than just a Sci fi novel, since it offers a critical view of the forces in the portrayed society and so different and similar at the same time from maybe ours. Among the themes dealt with by Severian are life, humanity etc. It is definately worth reading if you don't only look for a sequence of action events and a little more food for thought.
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Volume three of "The Boook of the New Sun".
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Set of 4 paperbacks by Gene Wolfe: The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor and The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun, 1 thru 4).
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The Sword Of Lictor
Wolfe
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Peter Russell went from being a strict atheist and scientist to discovering a profound personal synthesis of the mystical and the scientific. That transition is the basis of this book. In From Science to God, he blends physics, psychology, and philosophy to reach a new worldview in which consciousness is a fundamental quality of creation. Russell shows how all the ingredients for this worldview are in place; it remains only to put the pieces together and explore the new picture of reality that emerges. Integrating a deep knowledge of science with his own experiences of meditation, Russell arrives at a universe similar to that described by many mystics — one in which the inner and outer worlds no longer conflict. The bridge between them, he shows, is light, and this book invites readers to cross that bridge to find new meaning in God and a deeper significance in spiritual practice.
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end of one thing, beginning of another.......2007-09-22
Just when we collectively think we have thought of everything, this book takes us to a new beginning where the road is limited only by one's imagination. If you are seriously thinking of tomorrow, I would heartedly recommend this as an avenue to get there.
Beautiful Book.......2007-07-28
This is a very well written book that I greatly enjoyed. After I completed it I shared it with my son, a 17 year old high school student, and we had a number of interesting philosophical discussions. As the title implies, this book is based in classic science and it explores to the edges of what science can tell us and then points to beyond into what may be resonable. It is a thoughtful, clearly written, personal journey of exploration into one of the universe's greatest mysteries.
Breathtaking Merging of the Spiritual Light of Consciousness With the Science of the Physical Light in the Universe.......2007-06-27
Today's society suffers from the gap of scientific claim and largely anti- or pseudo-scientific religious organisations and/or dogmas. Many people have become to know ever more, as a consequence making them able to believe ever less of what progress-detesting conservatives (as the literal meaning of the word) demand. Spiritual advice of behavior towards the next (as an example) becomes hollow for many of even those who WANT to believe.
This book fills the abyss which has opened between science and religion with one stroke, probably something completely unexpected for most in our contemporary world. Not only that: It is utterly irrelevant, which branch of religion you are considering yourself part of - which includes non-believing science - this book will be very logic and door opening for most. I for example am a RastafarI. As such I seek knowledge, but use science usually differently than the scientists themselves. For they tend to define science as separating everything into ever more artificial categories. Peter Russell is the exact opposite, connecting everything into one. Including all the consequences of the concept of I-and-I (us). This approach to the relativity and quantum theories is a tremendous step for the knowledge of Rasta. Which I have never encountered getting explained in such an easy manner. Probably because for once this book doesn't exclude the spirituality of it all. Even more accessible via the way of writing this book as an autobiographical journey from childhood, via Cambridge university tribulations to enlightenment. As any progress usually harbors, there are challenges in this book. For RastafarI that would be not to blind "outer space" as lifeless. Which will lead to a variation of Rasta approach to that, not a complete reversal towards current priorities in money spending.
A small criticism: Africa gets neglected in a few instances. Credit is given to some ancient Greek philosophers and European scientists such as Johannes Kepler, whereas in reality the ancient Egyptians should receive their due. Which is also true for the concept of monotheism/pantheism. Peter Russell credits Zarathustra with it. However, the latter derived that from ancient Egypt. Not only Akhenaten/Akenten/Moses introduced that to the world directly many centuries before that, but indirectly all of ancient Egypt for many millennia before that.
This is a good read from an interesting author.......2007-05-14
I liked this book. I read the book in 1-2 nights before I went to see its author deliver a lecture in Carrollton, GA at UWG at a Jim Klee Forum. I found this book well written, very accessible, and refreshingly meaningful for me. Though I considered the book highly creative when I read it, I am now of the opinion that some of its ideas are derivative. This criticism aside, I recommend this book for any seeker looking for a good read and a milestone realization. The author, by the way, is an interesting speaker, and has a great range of experience and expertise to draw from.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.......2006-11-29
I first read this book in 2002 and just read it again; it was even better the second time around. Don't be deterred by the Publishers Weekly review that criticizes the author's scientific credentials. Here's the bottom line: Peter Russell is a well-educated, scientifically literate person who had no interest in religion until his study of human consciousness led him to explore eastern philosophy (Buddhism and Vedanta) and meditation. His mystical experiences changed his mind about spirituality by giving him a concept of the divine that is reasonable, progressive and compatible with modern science. Russell's book will be especially beneficial to thoughtful people who are understandably skeptical of organized religion but still believe "there's more to life than meets the eye." This deceptively simple book is one of my favorites!
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