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Chargement... Book of Kells (original 1985; édition 1986)par R A MacAvoy
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Book of Kells par R. A. MacAvoy (1985)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I originally bought this because it involved time travel to medieval Ireland, things that really twigged my interest at the time. But I have re-read it many times because I so enjoy the characters that MacAvoy lovingly draws. Even the bad guys get a full sketch; no one important to this story gets short shrift. ( ) I had great hopes for this book as the author is generally well thought of and I had quite enjoyed a couple of earlier, much shorter novels. Unfortunately, something about the weird dragging pacing of the beginning and the characters who came across as completely unattractive, put me off completely and I couldn't face reading the rest of such a long book. So it became a rare 'did not finish' for me, and I can only award it 1 star on that basis. This was a fun adventure, modern scholars take a trip through time to 10th century Ireland. Not all is rosy. In fact, it's quite dirty and brutal, but they have some good companions to help them. John Thornburn has a gift of sketching. It is through his art that a portal opens and delivers a young woman from the past, naked, into his apartment. He enlists the help of his friend, Derval O'Keane, a professor, to figure out what to do with the girl. Her home was under attack from Norse Berserkers when she was thrown through the portal. I was not thrilled with the character of the two main people in this story, they were annoying, but the setting and story were enough to keep me reading. A time-travel fantasy set in modern and Viking Ireland. Artist John Thorburn has settled in Dublin at the invitation of Professor Derval O’Keane after she met him in Canada. He is ineffectual and vapid, only taking fire with his art. She is competent and decisive and takes him as one of her lovers. While copying the spirals on a reently discovered Celtic cross, while playing some Irish music, he creates a portal back to Viking Dublin and brings teen-aged Ailesh through. She is a survivor of a Viking raid on the monastic community she and her father reside in. John and Derval take her back in time and discover another survivor, Labres McCullum, an ollave. An interesting take on time travel, more in the style of the accidental traveller than the super-competence usually in evidence in such works, it reads more like a fantasy than a S F novel, given the action is mostly set in the past. Recommended. I remembered the actual Book of Kells to playing a bigger part than it did in this story, but I still love the adventure in 10th cent Ireland - it holds up just as well after I've spent a few years in the SCA discussing dress and life of the period, which makes it among the better researched historical novels. Characters, plot, settings are all interesting and well done and it just keeps moving. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A contemporary couple journeys back in time to ancient Ireland in this delightful fantasy by the author of Tea with the Black Dragon. John Thornburn is an artist, mild-mannered and nonviolent. To make ends meet, he teaches some courses in Celtic design. And although his background is half Micmac Indian, he lives in Ireland for two reasons: his far more confrontational and warrior-like girlfriend, Derval O'Keane, and his fascination with the beautiful illuminated manuscript known as the Book of Kells. But he's about to take a journey to a far more distant place, one that he could not have imagined. Along with Derval, John will find himself in an ancient Celtic realm, where a Viking attack begs to be avenged and a fantastic--and sometimes terrifying--adventure awaits . . . From a master of magical fantasy, the author of the Damiano Trilogy and a winner of the John W. Campbell Award, this is a tale of warriors, love, danger, and Irish history that will cast a spell on anyone who dreams of discovering treasures in long-lost worlds. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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