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Summary: LOVE THIS BOOK!
Review: Wow - how else to describe this incredibly creative and thought provoking book! I now think about Satan, Lucifer, Lilith, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles (by far the best character in the book!) in a whole new light. It's rare that a novel will actually change the way you feel about something that has been around forever, but that is what Brust has done with this story. I now have to check out his other books to see if he'll seduce me with his stories the way he did with To Reign in Hell.Lucifer turns around and says, "You're nuts." - CLASSIC!
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Summary: great book, and, yes, it is republished!
Review: Such a great book. Not for the squeemish, though. Not because it's particularly gory or anything, but you might find yourself disturbed by the fact that you are identifying with Satan. It takes quite a while to really get into, but it will reward heavily in the end.
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Summary: You will never find anything more different
Review: It is unbelievable that anyone would rate this novel below five stars. This novel will be different from any other novel you have ever read- guaranteed. Steven Brust adds a daring twist to the saga of the war against heaven and hell. Brust cuts to the chase to the root of evil- er, revolt of the angels. The story is one giant twist and it will continue to surprise you throughout the novel.
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Summary: Go to the Library
Review: It took me a while to get into this book, but once I did I really enjoyed it. I love the twist Burst added to the ending. I would suggest reading this book at the library first.
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Summary: Don't Bother
Review: As I write this review, this book is showing an average rating of 4 stars. I have no idea how that can be. The premise is interesting: a SciFi interpretation of the creation of Heaven and Earth and the Fall. But, you can just feel the author trying to cram the plot in to fit the established framework. There's also almost nothing in the book which talks about WHY the characters are acting as they do. Mostly, it's about WHAT they do and isn't it clever how it meshes with the accepted interpretation. Some of the anthropomorphisms are absurd, too. Sure, perhaps we were made in God's image. But, to assume angels in Heaven before the creation of Earth or Man would act as we do, make things of steel, and light their homes with torches is ridiculous. If you want to read the book, get it from the library and save yourself a bundle.
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Summary: Stay The Hell Away!
Review: After reading about 100 pages of this book (I usually give a book 100 pages before going on or giving up) I was going, "Huh? What?" Too way out there for me. I've yet to find any decent fiction about angels. Angels are so ripe for good stories but no one seems to know what to do with them. Steer clear of "Silence In Heaven" as well. (Another disastrous angel novel) I wish I had checked this one out of the library. What a waste of cash.
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Summary: Truth and Lies
Review: I have had a chance to digest this book after finishing it several days ago. All I can say at first is WOW! Brust really has a magnificent imagination and uses it to the nth degree. Never had I thought about Heaven that way. Without giving away anything, I can only say that villans can even occur in the masses of Angels that packed Heaven. Twists and turns come abruptly and take on significances of their own as the story developes. Kudos to this writer for making this an enjoyable and easy read.
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Summary: Decent overall
Review: Now I was pretty nuetral about this book overall so don't think that I am saying this was a bad book just because I gave it three stars. I liked it well enough but I found that I had a hard time really loving any of the charactors. To many explanations and not enough action was another problem I had with this book. I am ashamed to admit that I had a very difficult finishing this book all the way to the ending which if I remember correctly didn't have much of a conclusion. I would say rent it from a libary but don't nessarily buy this book.
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Summary: It's just not that good
Review: I don't for the life of me see how all of these reviews could be giving this 5 stars. The review comparing it to a 3's Company episode is much more accurate.
How is it that one minor angel mangages to fool all of the top angels and just happen to be in the right place so many times? Very weak plot line! I don't see where the imagination is other that the setting which is fleshed out quite well.
For about the first 1/4 of book I was exicited about the story due to the setting, but once Brust started down his plot line I got more and more frustrated. I really did not enjoy this book. Notice that most of the 5 star reviews all mention "don't lend out this book", I suspect that there is a single person who is writing most of these. That must be it... there can't be this many people who really believe this is a great book!!
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Summary: Between two and three stars....
Review: To Reign in Hell certainly has its strengths. Its subject, for one. And a difficult subject it is. The revolt in Heaven, the beginning and end of all things. His take on the creation of the angels, their relation to Yahweh, the nature of the Flux...all this is original and very interesting. But, having read Milton's Paradise Lost (over and over again), which also describes the angelic rebellion, I can't help but compare the two works. When I consider how God, Satan, Messiah and the other angelic beings spoke and acted in Milton, I am left disappointed with Brust's characterizations. For good or bad, I simply cannot imagine angelic beings (evil or otherwise) acting so petty--so 'human'. When I read of 'higher things', let them be more than human! In Milton, when Satan confronts his adversaries, one senses the power and magesty of both parties, that the universe itself is in danger from a single stroke of their swords. In Brust, however, the confrontaions are more along the lines of a high-school fight in the school cafeteria. If you want to read of the War in Heaven, read Milton.
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