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Summary: Buy This Book Now!!
Review: I read To Reign in Hell in a day. It was excellect. So good in fact that i couldn't put it down. Do yourself a favor and buy this book today.
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Summary: Incredibly Written Masterpiece!
Review: After reading 2 chapters of this book I was unable to put it down. Steven Brust challenges our beliefs in God and Heaven, and makes me wonder if, in fact, God is right. The Plot is great and the character development is incredible. A very, very good book!
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Summary: Thank you Orb...
Review: for re-printing this literary classic. The cover alone is worth the price. This is the story of the revolt of angels. Satan's fall from heaven, along with all of his co-conspiritors. Each character is wonderfully drawn out and the plot is tight and fast. While reading,you get this horrible feeling of helplessness. For we all know how the story ends, yet we hope against hope that there is someway to change it. That is the bueaty of this work. It makes us question our beliefs and want to change the unchangeable. Its not the point of wheither it really happened this way or not - the point is that it COULD of happened this way. And that gives this work a serious/important tone. Which is not to say that its not funny. Quite the contrary, I found myself laughing out loud in places. But the serious tone makes the last third of book down right scary and tagic. I felt like I was tied down to the middle of a street with a bull dozer coming at my from three blocks away at three miles an hour. It also made me scared to death to go to heaven. At least the devil doesn't sugar-coat his wrong doings. Required reading for those interested in theology or just looking for an important book to break up all of the light beach reads this summer.
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Summary: One of the best I ever read
Review: How to possibly describe this book. If you have not read it, I have to strongly urge you to get it. It is literaly one of the best books I have ever read. If you have read some of the other books written by Mr. Brust, then you know he is something of a talented story teller. But if you are expecting something similar to his Vlad series, or other fantasy, prepare to be amazed. The story is about the events prior to the creation of the Earth. The creation of the Angels, and the fall of Satan. Mr. Brust does an outstanding job of portraying all of the characters. After all, Satan was an Angel....there is no reason to suppose that he was born Evil, or in opposition to God. How did it happen. This book really makes you empathize with the various characters. I can not stress it enough, if you have not read this book....you are missing out on a wonderful experience.
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Summary: Hell...
Review: ...Last year I spent [some money] on this until now, eternally out of print beauty. It was worth it. God rules in heaven and earth, which surely includes the the marketing division, the slander management crew, and the creative law executives. Question is: Is Satan falling down or rising up?
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Summary: Who is the true lord of lies
Review: To reign in hell is a wonderfully written book that uses fantasy to explore biblical issues that have confused people for ages. Steven Brust challenges Our ideas about God and Satan. If God is omnipotent and Satan is no fool how did the rebellion in heaven take place. Brust gives us a well thought out scenario of this event.I thought this book was masterfully written. It is a book filled with action and thought. I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: Great!
Review: This is a great novel. So great, when I refer it to someone, I describe it as a pre-Genesis book. The way Brust describes the creation of Heaven and Earth, and even Hell, is remarkable. All the descriptions of the Angels is amazing, he really brings out the personalities of all the different characters. (So well, I even found myself sympathizing for Satan at one point) He keeps it pretty straight forward, as far as names and relationships, as if anyone would prove him wrong anyway. It is definately not a novel for the amateur reader, the reading is rather difficult until you get used to it. Great novel, I hope to possibly read more by Brust on the same sort of subject.
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Summary: Read it in 1984, Augsburg, Germany...
Review: it belonged to my roommate. I've been looking for it ever since. It took me to the places I'd been taught about in Sunday school, and put a decidedly humanistic slant on creation, temptation, the war in Heaven, God, Satan, and the whole shebang. Although I don't agree with this books account, it did enthrall me to the point of not doing anything but reading it once I picked it up. It's 1999, and I'll have my own copy, obtained through a medium that didn't exist in 1984, and I'll enjoy reading it as much now as I did then.
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Summary: I'm keeping my copy!
Review: Like most others, I too made the mistake of lending out copies that never got back. I wised up by the fifth copy I bought.Now, here's the amazing thing... I don't re-read books. Not normally. This book and Zelaznys _Creatures of Light and Darkness_ are the only two books on my shelf that I've re-read innumerable times. I can literally flip this book open to a random page and go "Ah yes, I remember that!" In fact, it was because of Zelazny's prologue that I picked up the book in the first place. I respect Zelazny in his own right, but I will have an undying sense of gratitude to him for pointing me to this talented young author at the very start of his career. I have since gone on to read nearly everything that Brust has written and have been very satisfied with most of it (although I didn't think much of some works, like _Cowboy Feng's Spacetime Bar and Grill_). _To Reign in Hell_, however, will always hold a special place in my heart. One could argue that Agray had tighter plotting or that Teckla carried a greater sense of pathos, but Reign just seems so perfectly right on all levels that I can't help but to proclaim it my favorite fantasy novel... period. Just remember... do NOT lend this book to ANYONE!
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Summary: Just READ it!
Review: Yes, what everyone says IS true -- this book is THAT good. How it went out of print is beyond me. Get a copy however you can and hold onto it tight.
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