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book reviews forevermore
book reviews forevermore rated it 14 years ago
Ugh, this took me too long to start--I had the omnibus edition and had to take it back to the library. Will return to it. I really enjoyed the first section with Master Li and Number Ten Ox trying to help the village children who were poisoned. "I have a small character flaw." Master Li is scary sm...
Autumn Adventures
Autumn Adventures rated it 15 years ago
4 stars
Tower of Iron Will
Tower of Iron Will rated it 15 years ago
What a beautiful novel. Bridge of Birds is a Fantasy novel set in ancient China. It shows the tremendous potential of Fantasy to tell stories in a wide variety of settings instead of the overused Medieval Europe backdrop.
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 16 years ago
Wow. This book lives up to the hype. It is wonderful. Hughart takes the reader to a place and time that never truly was, but is wonderful and real. The book is wonderful, its brillant, its Chaucerian. Bridge of Birds has an controling quest, but it is told in three parts, each part forming part ...
ElizabethN
ElizabethN rated it 16 years ago
TBR
Vera
Vera rated it 16 years ago
Truly delightful and as well made as a centrepiece by the finest of patissiers.
Dantastic Book Reviews
Dantastic Book Reviews rated it 17 years ago
The only complaint I have about this volume of Barry Hughart books is that Hughart never wrote any more.I bought The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox from the Science Fiction Book club, largely because of the name. If you're into Princess Bride-style humor and dungeon crawls, these are the...
Books by the Lake
Books by the Lake rated it 18 years ago
One of my favorite books.
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