Maske: Thaery (Pocket) - Jack Vance • BookLikes (ISBN:9029006870)

Maske: Thaery (Pocket)

by: Jack Vance (author)

Format: Pocket

ISBN: 9029006870

Publish date: 1984

Publisher: Meulenhoff

Pages no: 237

Edition language: Dutch

Category:

Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction

Series: Gaean Reach

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target acquired rated it

12 years ago

http://markmonday.booklikes.com target acquired 4.0

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quintessential Jack Vance adventure novel. swiftly-paced, drily witty, deeply ironic, byzantine in its layers of back-story and multiple displays of world-building yet happily trim and stripped-down in its actual verbiage, featuring a sardonic young hero, his icy love interest and various mysteries ...

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B. Morris Allen rated it

13 years ago

http://bmorrisallen.booklikes.com B. Morris Allen 4.0

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Vance novels are usually worth reading for the fantastic language and wordplay alone, and this is no except. Maske also contains the usual tropes of disaffected wealth, disillusioned youth, and a fair amount of no-longer-appropriate sexism. It also has, however, one of Vance's more human and likable...

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spocksbro rated it

17 years ago

http://spocksbro.booklikes.com spocksbro 3.0

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More of a 2.5 or so but I'm being generous and rounding up because even second-rate Vance is fun to read.Maske: Thaery is your typical Vance SF novel: The protagonist, Jubal Droad, is smart, cynical and emotionally distant, though underneath there is a passionate, involved person. The action is swif...

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