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Summary: Enchantment; or, Why do we love fairy tales?
Review: Over the years, Orson Scott Card has given the world many powefull tales, stories of honor, of people doing great deeds and changing their worlds because of it.This is not one of them. That does not mean it is any less worth reading, however. The book tells a classic fairy tale, the story of the Sleeping Beauty, in a way that it just might have actually happened. I won't go into the details of the plot here, however, since I'm sure the reader can find those elsewhere with ease. What I will say, however, is that Card has found what it is that keeps these stories alive for so long. It is not the adventure that brings us back, or the tales of magic and wizardry. It is love. From start to finish, this is a love story and nothing else, though it may not seem that way at first. This novel demonstrates that love, no matter what age it is in, endures, and will find a way for itself. Enchantment also makes the reader realize not that fairy tales do happen, but that there is no difference between fairy tales and what we obstinately call reality. From cover to cover, Enchantment tells the reader that life really is one big story, a fairy tale that never ends.
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Summary: Awsome!
Review: I loved this book, coulnt put it down. I really hope Card decides to do a sequel to it!
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Summary: One of his better, but faltered a bit
Review: This was a good variation on Sleeping Beauty and was an entertaining read, I had a hard time putting it down until I finished it, but at the end it kind of awkwardly jumped to a happily ever after ending.
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Summary: An exceptional book with some flaws
Review: "Enchantment" is better-than-average in the realm of books written by an exceptionally good author. The concept and characters are both intriguing, and Card's style is, as usual, unpretentious, concise, intelligble, and intelligent. This is not to say that the work is without flaws. I found the end, while dramatic and 'true' in the storyteller's sense, to be abrupt and less clear than the bulk of the story. Also, some things simply seem wrong: A Jewish child is named after her still-living grandmother in the book; in fact, Jews consider it unlucky to name children after living relatives and do not do this as far as I know.
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Summary: Not top-rate Card, but close
Review: I have read more or less everything OSC has published for mainstream audiences. Some of his recent work is absolutely among his best (Pastwatch), while others just leaves you scratching your head at how he must have bullied his editor/publisher into printing such dreck. And I should say that at his best, he is just about the best story-teller around. This is really a very good book. The first 200 pages or so and the end are great, with a bit of a sag in the middle. As perhaps befits a fairy-tale, the characters are either absolutely good or evil. But this gets boring at novel-length. The happy band of pure-hearted underdogs saving the world wears thin quickly, especially since he is using substantially the same gambit in his latest Alvin Maker books. As a writer, his characters have somehow lost touch with reality. I know, I know, this is a Fantasy book. But his Mormon-ness is shining through ever-brighter into a readership uninterested in purity, goodness, and all that. Still a very good book; definitely worth reading.
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Summary: Solid writing but rather predictable
Review: The story that kept me engaged from beginning to end was, of course, the love story. However, I found myself feeling that much of the whole setup to the story seemed too trite and constructed. Maybe I've just seen too much of how a story is constructed to be able to judge how other people consider it. The story was good overall, but not great, because most of the elements seemed predictable, and not enough depth or development was done among those elements to make for truly original writing. The fact that the main character, Ivan, has a cousin who turns out to be virtually a god; Ivan's abrupt marriage to Katerina and his just-as-abrupt breakup with the girl he was supposed to marry, Ruthie; and other things - they were all explained away too quickly, loose ends that remained dangling. For me, Card has a habit of starting with a great concept, and starting the story out in great ways, but then reducing the storyline to something less than stellar, often by stretching things out rather than adding depth. Alas, even the love story felt lacking for me in the end. If you're a Card fan, like I am, you'll undoubtedly like this book. But being a Card fan, I feel he is capable of much more.
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Summary: Also a very sensual romantic story
Review: Of course, the amazing attributes of fantasy and story-telling spoken of in the other reviews seen on this web-page all apply to my enjoyment of this book, the love story cannot be overlooked. While Card has proven that he can weave a love story into a novel without damaging the plot before, this was a particularly moving romantic sub-plot. Card has been a favorite of mine for over a decade, but I am amazed at how his writing keeps getting better.
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Summary: I loved it !!!!
Review: This takes fairy tales and fantasy to a whole new level. I'm not a fantasy reader but once I picked up this book I could not put it down. I even recommended it to a friend who agreed that it was storytelling at its best. Buy this book, you won't regret it!!
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Summary: A Good Book!!!
Review: This is one of the best books with a twisted fairy tale story I have ever read. Who ever knew that Disney had not perfected the story of Cinderella. Try this book, it's good.
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Summary: Card's ABSOLUTE VERY BEST
Review: No one is doing in any genre of the publishing world (mainstream/sf/fantasy) what Mr. Card is doing. The mixture of fabulation, history, time-travel, and sheer magic pushes Mr. Card into the realm of writers such as Italo Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges and John Fowles. His imaginative capacities are seemingly boundless, his writing style absolutely engaging, first word to last. This is the breakthrough novel for Mr. Card, pure and simple and should bring more readers back to his other masterpiece, HART'S HOPE. If I wore a hat, I'd take it off in a grand salute to this man and this masterpiece. (But no sequels, please. Onward and upward!)
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