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Post by Admin Pete on Jul 24, 2017 13:38:10 GMT -5
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Post by Mighty Darci on Jul 24, 2017 18:04:19 GMT -5
They look like fun ideas, I'll have to check them out.
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Post by hengest on Jul 27, 2017 17:30:27 GMT -5
Has anyone read Tom's Midnight Garden or The Children of Greene Knowe?
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Post by bestialwarlust on Aug 3, 2017 19:26:55 GMT -5
Yes I read the five magics years ago I don't remember it well I'll have to reread it. Funny when that Megadeth album came out (rust in peace) I realized it was about that book.
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Post by Von on Aug 4, 2017 5:24:06 GMT -5
'The Historian', which is apparently not as obscure as I'd thought?
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Post by finarvyn on Aug 4, 2017 8:35:43 GMT -5
I have Master of the Five Magics on my bookshelf. I may have had both of the other two at one point but I can't recall because it's been so long since I read any of them. I know that I read the second one but didn't like it as well as the first. My recollection is that Hardy has a background in science or something like that; I certainly liked the scientific approach he took to the rules for magic.
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Post by Mighty Darci on Aug 4, 2017 10:31:16 GMT -5
Has anyone read Tom's Midnight Garden or The Children of Greene Knowe? No haven't seen them, Google tells me what they are, but what did you really like about them? |
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Post by Mighty Darci on Aug 4, 2017 10:37:54 GMT -5
'The Historian', which is apparently not as obscure as I'd thought? I looked it up and that sounds like a fun read. |
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Post by hengest on Aug 4, 2017 18:44:33 GMT -5
Has anyone read Tom's Midnight Garden or The Children of Greene Knowe? No haven't seen them, Google tells me what they are, but what did you really like about them? Tom's Midnight Garden is the most perfectly sustained time fantasy I've ever read, with a powerful but not even close to overwritten emotional grip. To say more would be to do it an injustice. The Green Knowe books (I haven't read them all) are not quite at that level, but the first one has an atmosphere that captures...childhood exploration of an old house, I guess...remarkably well. It's utterly unlike dunegeoneering...except maybe both speak to the same desire to hunt for relics of the past. |
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