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Indlæser... One Bright Star to Guide Themaf John C. Wright
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This is something I would expect a high school student to write as fan fiction. The action is handled in info dumps and the "plot" is disjointed. Wright made a lame attempt to write a story set in England but did an abysmal job. The descriptive language and dialogue is 99% American English with the rare British English word used. This wants so badly to be an allegorical fable in the manner of C.S. Lewis's Narnia. And it fails so, so badly. Years ago when they were children, Tommy and his three friends went on an adventure to a magical land and helped defeat evil and restore the true king, to the benefit of Earth as well as the magical realm. Now, with a boring job in the City, he's just gotten a promotion that he doesn't want, and a momentary encounter reminds him of his forgotten adventure. Suddenly, the magical cat Tybalt is with him again, with the Key that will send him off on a new adventure to confront a worse crisis. This could have been so promising. There's nothing especially original here, but that's the least of it. Tommy goes to see one of his old friends, Richard, and the initial conversation is downright painful. The Tommy we've seen so far can't be this naive and oblivious. Then he starts being wise and experienced again. And when things continue to spiral out of control as Richard betrays him to the evil powers, the chapter ends with Tommy flat on his back, unable to see or move. The next chapter starts several months later, with Tommy visiting another old friend, Sally, and telling her what happened. It's a perfect example of Tell rather than Show, and things don't get better from there. Altogether frustrating. Not recommended. 2015-05-21/100%: He's a better writer than a lot of the Puppy noms but his stuff isn't very interesting. What was up with Sally/Sarah? Did he get confused? He also seems to have issues with originality, this was a Narnia rip-off, the other story was a biblical fable. Hoping the others will be better fearing that his primary qualification was his politics and not his writing. Also, I get the feeling he's trying too hard to push his moral/biblical story which makes his stuff a little over the top. Not sure over-the-top is the correct phrase for it, just a feeling that he really thinks these are important works. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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It's not very good. It's a story about four people who as children had a very Narnia-like adventure and are now dragged as adults into a new encounter with the other world by Tibalt the talking cat, who is killed and resurrected towards the end, in case you hadn't got the point. As my regular reader knows, I am not a huge fan of the comic series DIE, by Kieron Gillen and others, but it takes a similar idea and does it much better.
The dialogue of One Bright Star to Guide Them is florid. Many important points of the action happen off stage. (Our protagonist is a captive at the end of one chapter, and free at the start of the next, a transition that is never explained.) All of England is next door to all the rest of England. Wright had his moments earlier in his career; this is not one of them. His behaviour around the Puppies in 2015-16 would anyway have disinclined me to vote for him (yeah, I know, artist from the art, but the Hugos are community awards and choices have consequences). But this story is in no way Hugo worthy. ( )