by John Myers Myers
I get why people like this book but I might have liked it better if I had first read it when I was younger. It still gets 3 stars because of the awesome range of fiction/literature it draws from. It only gets 3 stars because I couldn't stand the protagonist.
An odd novel. Published first in 1949, it was one of the first fantasy novels of the 20th century. It came out after The Hobbit but before The Lord of the Rings, and J.R.R. Tolkien wasn’t well known in America yet. So Silverlock doesn’t include any of the Tolkien’s influence that so many later Ameri...
I want someone to explain to me in great detail why this book isn't a rip off of The Complete Compleat Enchanter.And that book was funnier.It's kinda cool combining all the stories and stuff, but honesty, it's been done better.And it didn't need three introductions.
I get why people like this book but I might have liked it better if I had first read it when I was younger. It still gets 3 stars because of the awesome range of fiction/literature it draws from. It only gets 3 stars because I couldn't stand the protagonist.
Maybe the problem is that the book is so over praised, but Silverlock left me unmoved. The book is an exercise in mashing up characters from various classic literary works into a castaway adventure, but there is not much plot to carry it off. A lot of authors that I respect absolutely love this bo...
soooo much fun - i only wish i was enough of a reader to get all of the literary references!!
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