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Poison
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bookshelves: adventure, fairytale-fantasy-sci-fi-mythology, mystery
Sep 06, 2010
bookshelves: adventure, fairytale-fantasy-sci-fi-mythology, mystery
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3.5
A fairytale true to the dark, foreboding origins of such stories and original as they come.
Poison and her companions are living out the stories weaved by the Oliphaunt... yet Poison does not feel like someone else's creation. She does not believe that she is confined to choices preordained. Before ever she learns that there is more to her world than the bog that she lives in, her little sister is stolen by the fey and Poison leaves to recover her. But her journey takes her away from the world she grew up in and forces her to take on a quest to save all of reality.
Thanks to Grace for the recommendation. It was a very interesting and intriguing read.
I saw most of the major plot twists and points, but I still had a lot of fun and found the story quite original, if foreboding at times. The characters reminded me of Lloyd Alexander's just a bit.
A fairytale true to the dark, foreboding origins of such stories and original as they come.
Poison and her companions are living out the stories weaved by the Oliphaunt... yet Poison does not feel like someone else's creation. She does not believe that she is confined to choices preordained. Before ever she learns that there is more to her world than the bog that she lives in, her little sister is stolen by the fey and Poison leaves to recover her. But her journey takes her away from the world she grew up in and forces her to take on a quest to save all of reality.
Thanks to Grace for the recommendation. It was a very interesting and intriguing read.
I saw most of the major plot twists and points, but I still had a lot of fun and found the story quite original, if foreboding at times. The characters reminded me of Lloyd Alexander's just a bit.
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“The books were legends and tales, stories from all over the Realm. These she had devoured voraciously â€� so voraciously, in fact, that she started to become fatigued by them. It was possible to have too much of a good thing, she reflected.
“They’re all the same,� she complained to Fleet one night. “The soldier rescues the maiden and they fall in love. The fool outwits the wicked king. There are always three brothers or sisters, and it’s always the youngest who succeeds after the first two fail. Always be kind to beggars, for they always have a secret; never trust a unicorn. If you answer somebody’s riddle they always either kill themselves or have to do what you say. They’re all the same, and they’re all ridiculous! That isn’t what life is like!�
Fleet had nodded sagely and puffed on his hookah. “Well, of course that’s not what life is like. Except the bit about unicorns â€� they’ll eat your guts as soon as look at you. those things in thereâ€� â€� he tapped the book she was carrying â€� “they’re simple stories. Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some don’t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some don’t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and you’ll never get to read the same book twice.”
― Poison
“They’re all the same,� she complained to Fleet one night. “The soldier rescues the maiden and they fall in love. The fool outwits the wicked king. There are always three brothers or sisters, and it’s always the youngest who succeeds after the first two fail. Always be kind to beggars, for they always have a secret; never trust a unicorn. If you answer somebody’s riddle they always either kill themselves or have to do what you say. They’re all the same, and they’re all ridiculous! That isn’t what life is like!�
Fleet had nodded sagely and puffed on his hookah. “Well, of course that’s not what life is like. Except the bit about unicorns â€� they’ll eat your guts as soon as look at you. those things in thereâ€� â€� he tapped the book she was carrying â€� “they’re simple stories. Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some don’t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some don’t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and you’ll never get to read the same book twice.”
― Poison
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