Jan Needle (1943–2023)
Författare till Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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Wild Wood (Circle Of Magic) 23 exemplar
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- Födelsedag
- 1943-02-08
- Avled
- 2023-10-09
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- England
UK - Födelseort
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
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Wild Wood av Jan Needle
A lovely tale, even if you're not familiar with Kenneth Graham's Wind in the Willows (WITW). Needle weaves her tapestry with some threads from WITW, and it works quite well.
½
A short book, but an interesting one, well worth the read. Historically accurate and fast paced easy read.
Why do sea novels always have to focus on officers? In this case a 15 year old up and coming young gentleman nephew of the tyrannical and insane captain. This book focuses enough attention on the "noble peasantry" to be found amongst the "drunken, animal rabble" that you wish more sea novels would take that approach because it's way more interesting than the hierarchical social conventions and imagined slights of the upper decks.
The book has the sort of stultifying, mannered prose that is comically suited to historical fiction. In that, it's a distant cousin of Mary Renault. it's just short of the enjoyable sort of boring that the best historical fiction is.
It's not good, but it's not bad enough that one can't finish it and has more than enough spicy flogging. However, I agree with the other reviewers who feel confused and disappointed that one of the least interesting characters ends up being the titular character of the series. It's like a secret Bildungsroman told at the expense of our best loved (and hottest!) characters. who is the rest of this series for? fans of boredom?… (mer)
The book has the sort of stultifying, mannered prose that is comically suited to historical fiction. In that, it's a distant cousin of Mary Renault. it's just short of the enjoyable sort of boring that the best historical fiction is.
It's not good, but it's not bad enough that one can't finish it and has more than enough spicy flogging. However, I agree with the other reviewers who feel confused and disappointed that one of the least interesting characters ends up being the titular character of the series. It's like a secret Bildungsroman told at the expense of our best loved (and hottest!) characters. who is the rest of this series for? fans of boredom?… (mer)
This surprised the hell out of me. I'm not sure if I liked it, but it certainly got a reaction out of me. It was one of the most subtle character studies I've read. The main character is so vile (even for me) that I almost didn't finish the book, and I certainly didn't see how there could be a series with that character. Not only that, but its a slaughterhouse, don't get attached to any of the characters. I appreciate an author willing to bump people off.
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Statistik
- Verk
- 44
- Även av
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 482
- Popularitet
- #51,208
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 6
- ISBN
- 89
- Språk
- 4