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Summary: Clan Members Rejoice!
Review: Malkavian is easily the best clan novel so far. The technique, concept, characterization, and seductive imagery are enough to set a Toreador artiste's heart to remember how to flutter with delight. Will this be the key to the entire saga? (Hint: read the other eight first.) Or just a prank? This ninth chapter in the clan novels is an alluring must-read.
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Summary: Malkavian Schizophrenia
Review: Much of this book is spent switching back and forth tying up loose ends involving several characters from the first book (CLAN NOVEL: TOREADOR)- a sort of panoramic approach, with serveral subplots, that can get scattered and episodic. Here there is a main character focus alternating with that but in this case the main character is Anatole, the Malkavian prophet of Gehenna and his story is told mostly as a stream of halucinatory visions. I found them a little hard to sit still for while not finding anything that special in the more action oriented scenes. The book has a sort of split personality between action and surreal visions. Many readers may like one aspect and be bored stiff by the other.Also, unlike the better books in this series, this book can't really stand on its own. Anatole's visions tend to be either cryptic references to things that happened in the earlier books or stuff that will only (I hope) make sense in future books in the series. Meanwhile, the more conventional loose-end material only makes sense if you know what they are supposed to resolve from the earlier books. Still, the different subplots in this book do occasionally interconnect in important ways. This is probably the book's greatest strength- the way it suggests that the madness of the Malkavians sometimes synchronizes and brings them all together to work toward a larger purpose. Unlike some of the earliest books in the series, this one really does hold up in terms of being about the title clan. I've also noticed that I tend to like books in this series better the more of the series I read- once I can see how they fit into the big picture- and this may well happen here.
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Summary: you may not get it.
Review: ok kids. this is not your everyday, run of the mill book. this is about malkavians. it is mostly from the point of view of 'em too. get that set in your mind and prepare for the ride. if you don't like Malkavians, skip this book. you won't understand it. if you understand it, you're probably certifiable. the book is fun. (that's what life is all about, ya know) and in being fun, it is very informative as to how the Malks see the world. perception is key. don't forget.
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Summary: Malkavian- a clan that should be admired only for this...
Review: Some would say that the book was hard to follow, hard to understand, page after page o nothing but jibberish. The takes of a Malk in the eyes of a Malk is not something that most people can follow. It is a bit hard to understand the point of an entire series, each clan book was seperated so greatly by the first persons ideals and prioroties, and while it is widely known to any one who has taken any research into this series of clans that the Malkavian clan is the most misunderstood. Why would the author protray them as anything else. I personally found the ideas and stream of consiousness intriguing and sometimes find myself with the same thoughts and ideation. The character telling the story never really seems to be the main character, just someone who understands the main character and the greatness of Anatole. If the story were told by Anatole it would be a waste of time completely, though i like the author using someone else, who is never really an active participant, just someone who is there to experience the events and can translate them into somewhat more thought out terms, than perhaps someone at Anatoles point of veiw could express. This content of this book is very metaphorical, so just try to think in terms of symbolism if you don't already know the whole background. This is a book that you either think about or ignore. But if you really have no understanding of the clan Malkavian it would probably just be a waste of time to read this book so don't even bother to buy the book. But if you want to hear a delusional person's explanation of a schizophrenic, go ahead and keep reading.
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Summary: Anatole's beyond awesome
Review: The book was quite confusing, but led to actually a better understanding to what was really going on behind everything in the novel series. Of course I am a bit biased... Anatole is the greatest vampire to of ever graced White Wolf literature. It was a really good book.
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Summary: The author wasted his time
Review: This book is not worth the money. It adds little, if anything, to the story line. I like the overall series, so I would have to recommend reading this for completeness. It is unfortunate that is the only reason I can honestly give that recommends this book.
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Summary: One of the best series of books ever
Review: This book was the worst of the series. It is an extreme task to write a series of 13 novels. As a writer, I know this to be true. The writers must continue to hold the interest of the readers and they had done a great job up until this novel. Each novel took the reader deeper into the World of Darkness and made us interested in that world. The novels were easy to read and easy to follow. This one sets us back. I undersatnd that the writer tried to show us the "madness" of the protagonist but he forgot that this is a series and not a stand alone novel. It can easliy be skipped. If you want to enjoy the series as a unit skip it. There is a matter of style vs. subsatnce and the writer should have kept with the substance of the series and not the style of Anatole
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Summary: Clan Novel: Malkavian
Review: This book was the worst of the series. It is an extreme task to write a series of 13 novels. As a writer, I know this to be true. The writers must continue to hold the interest of the readers and they had done a great job up until this novel. Each novel took the reader deeper into the World of Darkness and made us interested in that world. The novels were easy to read and easy to follow. This one sets us back. I undersatnd that the writer tried to show us the "madness" of the protagonist but he forgot that this is a series and not a stand alone novel. It can easliy be skipped. If you want to enjoy the series as a unit skip it. There is a matter of style vs. subsatnce and the writer should have kept with the substance of the series and not the style of Anatole
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Summary: Great book
Review: This was a great book that showed the Malkavaians as I always imagined them... crazy. But crazy in a smart way. The hallucnations in the beggining of the book are a tad confusing but you get used to it and the last half of the book does much to further the plot of the series.
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Summary: Poor. Tell a story, don't try to be an artist.
Review: This was a sad book -- sad because the author tried to become William Faulkner and write in stream of consciousness. Unfortunately, unlike Faulkner, it ends up being unintelligible babble. This gets further complicated when the author misuses words (such as using the word "debtor" to indicate the person to whom a debt is owed, rather than the person borrowing). Mistakes like this kill the credibility...
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