Paulina Tp từ Canale Sud CR, Italy

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05/18/2024

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2019-08-10 20:31

Từ Điển Tranh Về Rau - Củ - Quả - Hoa Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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What to say about this unfortunate second volume in a dreadful trilogy? Where can I even start? Well, some fanboy history is in order. The Forgotten Realms (FR) has always been a favorite setting for a lot of dungeon gaming, and even more popular for its series of stories set in its deep and populated world. The collaborative nature of this universe makes for some disjointed storytelling but makes room for quite a bit of character building and adventure. I came across FR mostly in two phases: first as an adolescent reader of the adventures of Drizzt Do'Urden in Icewind Dale (still a classic trilogy in my heart) then as an older teenage gamer, playing the PC versions of Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's Gate. In between those phases, somewhere, I came across the Avatar trilogy and the portentous events it chronicled regarding the Time of Troubles. For those uninitiated, this was a epic shaping event in the history of the Realms that resulted in the overthrow of the existing pantheon of gods and realignment of many major religions. The Avatar trilogy delves into the stories of four adventurers who play a fundamental role in this crisis. In other FR books you know that the Gods are immortal, unapproachable, distant powers. In this trilogy they are made mortal as punishment for the theft of two Tablets of Fate from the Overgod, Ao. Our heroes, consisting of a barbarian, a thief, a mage and a cleric (as cliched a collection of adventurers as possible) find themselves in the middle of this disaster, and come across other major characters in the FR firmament, including Elminster of Shadowdale. The first book was a bit painful to get through. A lot of the "characterization" was ghastly, and the motivations of our protagonists were shaky at best. It was hard to like any of them but you read on for the sake of the story. It was at least a captivating tale, right? However, in this book, all of these bums lose our sympathy completely. Their motivations change, and their behaviors veer wildly from one extreme to another. Physical changes (such as an unfortunate scar) manifest in dark, unbelievable personality changes. Cyric the thief transforms from an uneasy but harmless mercenary in the first volume to a rabid chaotic evildoer, stabbing everyone he comes across. Seriously, late in the book he even stabs a poor messenger boy and dumps him in the bay for no other reason than "his usefulness is at an end." Yikes. Not a pleasant group of heroes, this lot. I am sure that in the campaign setting, the tabletop adventurers would take a more consistent path to the conclusion. But for this group, the story was told in jumps and leaps, with long phases of little action in between. If there was ever a book meant to be skimmed, it is this one. Now, here is my dilemma: through questionable reasoning flavored by numerous cocktails at the hotel bar, I acquired all the books in this series from the second hand bin at a nearby bookstore. The last volume sits on my shelf waiting for its pages to be turned and creases to be made. Do I dare to open it? Is it possible to get less than one star? Will I ever finish it? Questions for another day...

Người đọc Paulina Tp từ Canale Sud CR, Italy

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.