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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Collins Voyager)by: Alan Garner August 05, 2002 Best Selling > Books > Garner, Alan |
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I loved the Harry Potter books, Lord of the Rings, Susan Cooper etc, so i thought i would love this. But i didn't. I found the whole thing a little cold. The main charectors didn't come alive for me, meaning i couldn't empathise with them, instead finding the whole thing a bit murky and strange. Obvoiusly i'm in a minority, but for some reason i deally do NOT get on with Alan Garner.
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The Owl Serviceby: Alan Garner August 05, 2002 Best Selling > Books > Garner, Alan |
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This was a bizarre little book. It is a retelling of an old Welsh legend - a legend of a curse that is relived in each generation, again and again, in the same Welsh Valley. The main characters are Allison and Roger who are Step Siblings and Gwen is the son of the flitch - the wise man of the valley.
The book captivated and I could not put it down. Various kinds of discrimination and prejudice pervade the plot and the book is full of dark twisty turns in the plot and sub-plots, one of which is the condensation of the English to the Welsh and its corollary in the Welsh resentment of English wealth. The class divide is on many different levels: between a working class boy and richer children, between a land-owning family and a businessman's ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Moon of Gomrath (Collins Voyager)by: Alan Garner September 02, 2002 Best Selling > Books > Garner, Alan |
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Excellent, extremely well written, for young and old a like, what else can I say.
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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (Complete Classics)by: Alan Garner February 27, 2006 Best Selling > Books > Garner, Alan |
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I loved the Harry Potter books, Lord of the Rings, Susan Cooper etc, so i thought i would love this. But i didn't. I found the whole thing a little cold. The main charectors didn't come alive for me, meaning i couldn't empathise with them, instead finding the whole thing a bit murky and strange. Obvoiusly i'm in a minority, but for some reason i deally do NOT get on with Alan Garner.
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The Stone Book Quartet (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)by: Alan Garner May 15, 2006 Best Selling > Books > Garner, Alan |
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I loved the Harry Potter books, Lord of the Rings, Susan Cooper etc, so i thought i would love this. But i didn't. I found the whole thing a little cold. The main charectors didn't come alive for me, meaning i couldn't empathise with them, instead finding the whole thing a bit murky and strange. Obvoiusly i'm in a minority, but for some reason i deally do NOT get on with Alan Garner.
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Elidor (Essential Modern Classics)by: Alan Garner September 01, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Garner, Alan |
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As a reader of children's fantasy, this book is a revelation. It follows so few of the conventions that its novelty makes it a page turner. The gritty slums of contemporary Manchester provide most of the background, and the deserted fantasy land provides the rest, both imbued with real ambience. The earlier Garner books, though great to read, feel pale and clichéd by comparison. The book enthrals and keeps you guessing from literally the first page to the very last sentence, which left me hungry for more.
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Red Shift (Collins Voyager)by: Alan Garner October 07, 2002 Best Selling > Books > Garner, Alan |
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"Red Shift" is a bleak, difficult work. It's also a stunning achievement, and remains one of the most haunting books that I've ever read. The story must have been years in the making - I remember reading an interview with Alan Garner back in 1968(!) in which he was talking about the plot - some years before it was published in the early 1970s. Separately, I remember Garner saying that the Roman soldiers were indeed based on GIs in Vietnam. Yes, the Joy Division albums would form a fine soundtrack to the book, but I'd also suggest the Buzzcocks' "What Do I Get"? Tom's a'cold indeed..
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Elidor (Collins modern classics)by: Alan Garner August 05, 2002 Best Selling > Books > Garner, Alan |
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As a reader of children's fantasy, this book is a revelation. It follows so few of the conventions that its novelty makes it a page turner. The gritty slums of contemporary Manchester provide most of the background, and the deserted fantasy land provides the rest, both imbued with real ambience. The earlier Garner books, though great to read, feel pale and clichéd by comparison. The book enthrals and keeps you guessing from literally the first page to the very last sentence, which left me hungry for more.
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The Owl Service (Junior Classics)by: Alan Garner September 29, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Garner, Alan |
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This was a bizarre little book. It is a retelling of an old Welsh legend - a legend of a curse that is relived in each generation, again and again, in the same Welsh Valley. The main characters are Allison and Roger who are Step Siblings and Gwen is the son of the flitch - the wise man of the valley.
The book captivated and I could not put it down. Various kinds of discrimination and prejudice pervade the plot and the book is full of dark twisty turns in the plot and sub-plots, one of which is the condensation of the English to the Welsh and its corollary in the Welsh resentment of English wealth. The class divide is on many different levels: between a working class boy and richer children, between a land-owning family and a businessman's family and finally there is the divide ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Strandloper (Harvill Panther)by: Alan Garner July 03, 1997 Best Selling > Books > Garner, Alan |
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Alan Garner, who for many years has been publishing "children's" literature that no child could possibly understand, has finally given the world a full, frank "adult" novel. It's contrasting narrative voices - which are handled with the skill of a latter day William Faulkner - are all the more impressive for the fact that the novel is written in the third person. At every twist of the tale, as the title character journeys from 18th century England to penal colony Australia and back again, the emotional and intellectual changes that take place within him are expertly mirrored in the narrative voice. This is already one of the greatest of modern novels, and were it not for the fact that it languishes under the critially frowned upon genre of "fantasy", then it would become a staple of every university's ... Read More:
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