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Summary: Intriging answers and puzzling questions.
Review: A must for anyone who has played Myst™. The story of Atrus, from his birth through to the start of the game. An amazing insight into the characters involved in the game. While very descriptive and very interesting, it always leaves you with questions that you will thirst answers to. A definite pageturner.
As thouroughly enjoyable as the game, invented in the style only the game authors could devise.
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Summary: A tale of detail and creation, gods and their creations.
Review: This is a story of the growing up of a child, and the learning experiences of finding out that he can create and travel to worlds, by writing a descriptive book on the world
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Summary: A fascinating prequel for MYST fans.
Review: In this classic tale of good vs. evil, time and terrain
are intangible, mystical, and capricious. In Myst: The Book of Atrus, the Miller brothers pit father against son in a fascinating prequel to the top selling computer game, MYST. In a surreal world of Ages created and linked with books,
Atrus learns his true identity, why his values collide
with his father's, and how to escape destruction, mostly from
events created by father, Gehn.
From the moment Gehn returns to fetch him, Atrus falls into
abyss after abyss, untoward circumstances, and sinister
surroundings. Through all of his adventures, Atrus retains
a sense of mindfulness and stewardship, developing enough wisdom to save himself and others from certain death.
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Summary: This book rules
Review: this book is one of the best books i have ever read maybe because i got really into the game myst but is very well done.a lot of new worlds to discover with atrus but when he is growing up in his grandmothers house and then with his father
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Summary: If you couldn't get enough of the game ....
Review: No, it doesn't stand on its own. But it isn't as bad as anticipated.
The story is somewhat pretentious and DUNE like, but that's why you'll read it. It gets interesting towards the end and is a quite satisfying prequel to the game. It climaxes with Atrus' journal entry noting his loss of the MYST book, the same narrative which opens the game.
The book itself,e.g.,the binding, artwork and leaves are a treat.
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Summary: Myst : The Book of Atrus
Review: The Book of Atrus is a fantasy Sci-Fi novel. It is about how Atrus battles the strong will of his father, Ghen. These two people are the last remaining survivors of D'ni, a great race of people.
Until Atrus' father came, he had been living with is grandmother, who had been a very influential D'ni. Atrus however did not have any idea of his heritage. Ghen takes Atrus away from his home and into the ruins of D'ni to teach him of the D'ni ways.
The D'ni are an ancient people that were great for there ability to "write" worlds. That is to creat a linking book to a world that fits the description. The worlds are refered to as both being created by the writer of the linking book and just being found by the creator of the linking book.
The Book of Atrus teaches us a lot about the need for knowledge and patience. Ghen, in his haste and stupidity ends up destroying cultures and worlds. Atrus then goes back and cares for the unstable worlds his father created. The book portrays Atrus as the model D'ni. He is patient, caring, understanding, and knowledgeable. For those are the traits needed to create stable worlds.
The book was created as background for the game and the majority of the people who have read the book, it read because they enjoyed the game. For those who have played the game the book answers many questions and raises more. Anyone could enjoy this book though. The tale of Atrus is one that needs no background information to understand. Though when your done reading it you might just want to go out and buy the game too.
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Summary: Shoes too big to fill...
Review: This is a review for the cassette version of the story of Atrus, simply because I can't find a review for it here. I purchased this a few months back and have to admit that, as yet, I havn't actually reached the end. The problem is that this dramatisation (of a startlingly unique and engrossing story) into audio is over-dramatised. Let me explain...
All the characters (and there aren't even that many) feel completely over-blown. The actors must have thought they were on the stage or something, because they project their voices way too much and try to imbue every line with an inappropriate vigour, which clashes with the narrative and also means that the subtelty of the book is completely missed. I, at least, do not think it is necessary to make Anna sound decrepit, or Gehn utterly nuts or Atrus immature. These are aspects of character that should be revealed in the plot, as the book does so brilliantly and not with such obvious voices as these.
Maybe my reading of the book was different from the makers of this tape, because to me this just doesn't bear any resemblance to the book I very much enjoyed- the magic is gone and in trying so hard to get it right, my impression is that the makers failed miserably to reproduce any aspects of what made the book great.
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Summary: Best book in the series
Review: Myst: Book of Atrus has to be the best book in the series. I originally picked up this book prior to playing the games, just to read the story behind the immensely popular game. I became hooked and quickly bought the games, as well. This book gives the entire background history of Atrus as a child growing up with his grandmother and eventually with his father, Gehn. Any Myst fan interested in learning more about Atrus and the D'ni should read this book, as well as the equally awesome Myst: Book of Ti'ana.
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Summary: Simply fascinating
Review: Having played all 3 games of the MYST serie, it is easy to "see" the characters evolve in the mind's eye, and even hear them. It also reminds us a bit not only to know "how" to make an experiment, but also "why" and to ask oneself what would be gained and whom it would benefit (notions forgotten nowadays). It is hard to put down once you started reading, the story becoming a "Linking book" itself.Enjoy.
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Summary: Wonderfull and full of wonders
Review: This is an amazing book. It is well written, not too long and it's easy to visualize the beautifull worlds that are in Myst: The book of Atrus. I played the game and loved it, so that's why I was so interested in that book. I was wondering how Myst started, why it was created, who were the D'ni people.... I just wanted to know more things about Myst and this book answered a lot of my questions. Even if you don't have a single clue about the game, and you like ''fast paced, well-constructed fantansy''(taken from Publishers Weekly), you will adore this book to the very last page.
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