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Summary: An adventure for everyone
Review: I loved this book it had everything you could ask for romance, adventure, mystery and wonder I recomend everyone to read this book
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Summary: Let's visit Tigana one day and sing the name in the streets.
Review: This book made me want to visit Tigana, even now if I say the name it evokes a magical renewal as if this was story was a true fictional recounting of a terrible time. The book is probably one of the best stories ever written, the end is heartbreaking and yet glorious. Can the story continue one day? soon!
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Summary: Whomever decided that "10" was the number of perfection
Review: Hasn't read Tigana. Yes I can write at length about the novel, but anything I write cannot convey the shear magnificience of this book. Who can touch Kay in the genre of Fantastical fiction? Eddings? Donaldson? Jordan? Tolkien? Nay, not even the beloved master. The best book of all time? Close second only to Papa ("The Sun Also Rises").
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Summary: I could go on forever about this book....
Review: .....But don`t worry, I`m not sadistic as all that. It`s only that after reading a work of mastery such as this I have to put in my own two cents, even if by now they`ll be lacking in originality. This book was one of the only books I`ve read that managed to move me to the point of tears (it doesn`t happen often - I`m a cynic; ask anyone who knows me) and that without even seeming to try. I always get annoyed when people say a book made them feel every possible emotion there is - they don`t seem to realize that there are an awful lot of nasty emotions out there - but I have to admit 'Tigana' comes close. Instead of the black and white conflict between good and evil which characterizes most fantasy, the theme of this book is so deeply personal that one can fully understand the phrase 'a blade in the soul' before the story is done. To watch the tattered survivors struggling in a battle for their own identity is nothing short of heartbreaking. These are not the traditional fantasy heroes, either; none are especially humble or virtuous, in fact occasionally showing a darker side in their desperate attempts to conquer the oblivion that eats at the core of their lives. When Alessan first bonded the wizard, I wondered at first if I had any right to like this guy. Yet this only lends deeper facets to the characters, just as Brandin was not only likeable as an enemy, but his death was one of the few moments I nearly embarrassed myself by crying over a book. There are two possible ways to look at this book: one can feel contempt for the illicit relationship of Dianora and Baerd, Alessan`s bonding a man against his will, and Catriana`s ruthless, sometimes shocking methods. Or there is another way: to see that at the heart of it all is the bitter, painful struggle of people who must first prove to themselves, before they can conquer external enemies, that they are worth something. Even in our own world, that takes a lot of doing
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Summary: Could have been great, but...
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The craftsmanship of this book was excellent,
as are all of Kay's works.
However, I lost all sympathy for the main
characters halfway through the book, when they
purposefully commited a horribly evil act.
No matter how well-written a book is, I won't
enjoy it if I don't at all care about the jerks
who pass for protagonists.
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Summary: Another Tolkien?
Review: I've said before that Kay draws upon Tolkien's themes a bit for his fionavar trilogy (but it still was incredible). But on this review, when I say another Tolkien, I mean he is surely another legend in the making. I must say, like everyone else (read the other reviews), it took me a good year to finally get around to reading Tigana. I checked it out from the library, didn't like the first few pages, and returned it. But I kept checking it out...I don't know why...and returning. Finally, I forced myself to read past the first chapter, and I was certainly glad I did. This book IS THE ASBOLUTELY BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ. When people ask what it's about, you can't answer. Because it's about a woman who falls in love with the wrong man, it's about a man who seems to know everything and yet who falls in love with a woman out to destroy him, it's about a nation, about a group of friends, about a man's love for his son, about a young man's journey to maturity, about a man's submitting to his destiny...and oh so much more. Like the Weaver from the Fionavar Tapestry, Kay develops several strands of the stories and masterfully ties them all in the end. This story is just incredible. I can't shut up about it. Go! Go read it! If you're too cheap to buy it, e-mail me and I'll lend you my copy.
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Summary: A darkly beautiful book
Review: I have nothing to add that hasn't been said, but when it comes to a book like this, I feel I have to respond.. This book is disturbing, haunting, and strangly beauttiful. It also was one of the first fantasy books that didn't try to simplfy the issue of good and evil. A book that makes you love the "Enemy" even when you know he has to be killed, is a work of ginius. The book raised the question of identity, freedom, love, revenge and their affect upon society. I won't pretent that I understood all the issues raised. But at least I felt they were there, and dealt with in their complex, vibrant form
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Summary: Kay is one hell of a writer!
Review: I loved this book. I don't think I've found a better novel and very few, if any, have matched it. I'd have to say that the plotting was immaculate and was the real reason that I loved it so much. One has to read it to appreciate it. Someone please e-mail me the title of a book that they've liked better
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Summary: A beautifully written story
Review: I read Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana some time last year. And spent the following months haunted by its characters, as I searched in vain for a similarly fulfilling book.
The story revolves around a place called Tigana, and its proud people. Fighting to retain its independence, the Prince of Tigana kills the invading sorceror's son in battle. The father, torn with grief, retaliates by crushing Tigana. And to make its destruction complete, he inflicts a curse upon the people and the land so that even the memory of Tigana would be lost once the last of its people die away. This sets off a quest by the survivors to redeem their name.
Kay had taken the many hued threads of passion, magic and love, and woven it into this beautiful piece of work. And while the story itself is well written, it was mainly the characters in the book that grabbed me. Unlike the oft met characters of fantasy worlds who are clearly distinguishable as the good, or the wicked, the people of this story are complex mixtures of both. Ultimately, it was possible -- necessary even -- to love them, and to empathise with them as they celebrated their joys and suffered their pains.
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Summary: UNFORGETTABLE READING EXPERIENCE
Review: TIGANA IS A UNFORGETTABLE READING EXPERIENCE. KAY TAKES US INTO A WORLD OF HAUNTING BEAUTY,STIRRING DEEDS AND MAGIC. WE ARE DRAWN INTO THE STRUGGLE OF TIGANA'S INHABITANTS TO FREE THEIR LAND OF TYRANNY AND REGAIN THEIR NAME, WHICH WAS STOLEN FROM THEM BY THEIR
VENGEFUL CONQUEROR THROUGH MAGIC. KAY KAY'S
PROSE IS LYRICAL THAT YOU WISHED HIS NOVEL WAS TWICE IT'S LENGTH!
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