en-US Fri, 11 Feb 2022 04:11:45 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 40869 448 Jack Vance 0575073748 Mohammed 5
I dont even like to read High fantasy usually but a dense for a Vance novel, story that is so imaginative, bold, ambitious and Vance at his literary best when it comes to prose style, use of language. I would like to write a lengthy review to analyse this like a literary class essay the many sides of this mysterious, beautiful novel but it still wouldn't do justice to this magnificent novel.]]> 3.97 1983
author: Jack Vance
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1983
rating: 5
read at: 2016/03/29
date added: 2022/02/11
shelves: favorite-books, jack-vance, fantasy, fantasy-masterwowrks, world-fantasy-award-winners
review:
This is the 29th Vance novel/collection that i have read and The Dying Earth novels with Cugel, Rialtho is still my all-time favorite Vance because i like the world of Dying Earth so much but this is easily the best i have read of this legendary author.

I dont even like to read High fantasy usually but a dense for a Vance novel, story that is so imaginative, bold, ambitious and Vance at his literary best when it comes to prose style, use of language. I would like to write a lengthy review to analyse this like a literary class essay the many sides of this mysterious, beautiful novel but it still wouldn't do justice to this magnificent novel.
]]> 757040 Dying Earth saga inspired writers like Michael Moorcock and Gene Wolfe, who freely acknowledges his debt to Vance in his own Book of the New Sun.

Here, in one volume, is Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jack Vance's classic Dying Earth saga comprising The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous. Travel to a far distant future, when the sun bleeds red in a dark sky, where magic and science is one, and the Earth has but a few short decades to live...

]]> 741 Jack Vance 1857989945 Mohammed 5
Dying Earth stories and Cugel are a master-work of the field.

Made me a huge Jack Vance fan and it has a place in my affections like no other literature I have read.]]> 3.94 1998
author: Jack Vance
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1998
rating: 5
read at: 2007/01/01
date added: 2018/07/20
shelves: short-stories, jack-vance, science-fantasy, favorite-books, fantasy-masterwowrks
review:
The finest fantasy collection i have read along with Lord Dunsany's early fantasy collections.

Dying Earth stories and Cugel are a master-work of the field.

Made me a huge Jack Vance fan and it has a place in my affections like no other literature I have read.
]]> 92121 175 Roger Zelazny 0380014300 Mohammed 5 4.07 1970
author: Roger Zelazny
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1970
rating: 5
read at: 2009/01/01
date added: 2011/07/28
shelves: science-fantasy, fantasy-masterwowrks, favorite-books
review:

]]> 102087 592 Clark Ashton Smith 057507373X Mohammed 4 4.12 1978
author: Clark Ashton Smith
name: Mohammed
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1978
rating: 4
read at: 2010/10/02
date added: 2010/10/02
shelves: short-stories, fantasy, fantasy-masterwowrks
review:

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Caught up in the intrigue between rival bands of beggars, pursued by Egyptian sorcerers, and befriended by Coleridge, Doyle somehow survives and learns more about the mysterious Ashbless than he could ever have imagined possible...]]> 464 Tim Powers 0575077255 Mohammed 0 3.73 1983
author: Tim Powers
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1983
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2009/06/30
shelves: to-read, science-fantasy, fantasy-masterwowrks
review:

]]> 757025 266 Jack Williamson 0575075465 Mohammed 5
A true masterwork.]]> 3.48 1940
author: Jack Williamson
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.48
book published: 1940
rating: 5
read at: 2009/04/18
date added: 2009/04/18
shelves: weird-horror, fantasy-masterwowrks, favorite-books
review:
A gripping,humane story that arent dated at all. Its about a very intresting and different take on lycanthropy. The best story about Lycanthropy i have read or seen.

A true masterwork.
]]> 1567349 231 Poul Anderson 0575082720 Mohammed 5 fantasy, fantasy-masterwowrks 3.82 1954
author: Poul Anderson
name: Mohammed
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1954
rating: 5
read at: 2009/01/05
date added: 2009/01/05
shelves: fantasy, fantasy-masterwowrks
review:

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