E Angelina từ Gourna Colony, Pakistan

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12/22/2024

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E Angelina Sách lại (10)

2018-09-19 21:31

Bác Hồ Với Việc Đọc Và Tự Học Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vũ Dương Thúy Ngà

Can't believe I never read these before. Actually I read a couple of the stories that were included in first book ("The dying earth") but all four books here are extremely good. The first is really a collection of short stories that were edited into a continuous novel, although relatively few characters appear in more than one "chapter". The first book is more straightforward sword & sorcery/science fantasy type stuff, with many bizarre settings and characters. The next two books, "The eyes of the overworld" and "Cugel's saga", follow Cugel the Clever's picaresque adventures across several countries in the dying earth. These are very, very funny and witty. Cugel is a rogue and real bastard. The last book, "Rhialto the Marvellous," is another picaresque, following the adventures of a magician, who is, if anything, even more of a bastard than Cugel. Vance has a way of using words that has to be experienced. His humor is very dry, and his characters have been described as "desperately extravagant" which is about right. The setting is the earth, millions of years in the future, where many cycles of civilization have fallen and risen. The sun is now sputtering out, a dim red dwarf. Magic and science are indistinguishable, and the world is haunted by many dangerous monsters left over from the terrible experiments of past "magicians." People are largely resigned to the looming end of the world, but rogues like Cugel and Rhialto still scheme...

Người đọc E Angelina từ Gourna Colony, Pakistan

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.