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Summary: A marvelous long running series !
Review: "The Tar-Aiym Krang" is the second book in the enchanting Flinx and Pip series. Readers should start with "For Love of Mother-not" which prompted me to purchase the rest of the Pip and Flinx books printed to-date. Not all are in print and I was glad to have secured those out-of-print through Amazon Market place. I have read the first 4 and have enjoyed each of them. Flinx and his pet,Pip, are definitely my top favorite sci-fi/fantasy characters. The adventures of this young man with his flying mini-dragon keeps me enthralled. Their encounters with myriad alien characters in highly imaginative worlds is wonderfully conceived. I am just glad that Foster is still keeping the series alive.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: I have to say seriously that this is one of my favorite series. The main character, Flinx, is one of the best, well rounded, deep characters I have ever read about. The author writes in a manner which is engaging, and incorporates a lot of research, so that the book is believable. Bad things happen to Flinx, and he is not perfect. An excellent series. Equal to Ender's Game, and the Drizz't books, easily.
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Summary: why I won't be reading the sequels
Review: Judging by the other reviews here I'm clearly missing something.I came to this book expecting an easy to read Sci-Fi pulp story, hopefully entertaining, at best uplifting. I almost got what I was expecting, but not quite. To it's credit, it held my interest enough to actually finish it, and the internal logic and scientific concept was consistant and well-thought out enough to be believable. That's about the most positive thing I can find to say about it. As I began to read I was so stricken with the clumsiness of the dialogue and the two dimensional gimmickry of the characterisation that I assumed this must be a very brave (and lucky to be published) first novel. Not sure if that's the case, but my hopes that there might be a powerful or clever twist that had contributed to it's acceptance by the Publishing House were sadly not to be realised. There is a sense throughout that it might all be worth it, but the ending is so weak as to leave me resenting the time spent ploughing through the final chapters, misprints and all. I was amazed to find on completion that the author has gone on to pen a whole series based on the characters found in this book, each of which can be reduced to one 'interesting' personality trait. It is littered with the sort of literary rule-breaking that requires an artist of much greater stature than this for justification. For instance, I accept that his use of dialogue so clumsy as to be (literally) sometimes in fictional alien tongues was an attempt to give his conceptual hybrid human/alien language an exotic feel... unfortunately it succeeded, in my case, only to irritate. Probably the most interesting character is introduced in detail early in the story, only to play no further role. The Sci-Fi cliches come thick and fast. A strong ending could, perhaps, have excused the weakness of the prose, but this, unfortunately, was simply not forthcoming. I don't normally find it useful to contribute such negative reviews, but amidst the shining praise found here, I really felt there needed to be at least one dissenting voice to warn to potential first time reader.
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Summary: The begining of a great series
Review: Meet Phillip Linx known to his friends as Flix,an orphan sold at the Drallar slave markets, taken in by a kind local Mother Mastive. Thus starts one of the most memorable sagas that I have read, Fosters charecterization brings to vibrant life the players in the marveously evolving galaxy of the Commonwealth. I would thoroughly recommend this book as a spring board into the wonderously convoluted world of Flix of the Commonwealth.
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Summary: Tar-Aiym Krang was his first novel I think
Review: Tar-Aiym Krang was his first novel I think; I know he wrote Love of Mother Not later. Fine ideas, my favorite theme for science fiction (main character confused with unknown and possibly unlimited power). They are definately ordered, otherwise it's a little confusing if you care about the details.
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Summary: Tar-Aiym Krang was his first novel I think
Review: Tar-Aiym Krang was his first novel I think; I know he wrote Love of Mother Not later. Fine ideas, my favorite theme for science fiction (main character confused with unknown and possibly unlimited power). They are definately ordered, otherwise it's a little confusing if you care about the details.
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Summary: Tar-Aiym Krang
Review: The book that started it all. It is a must have, if you plan on reading Mid-Flinx and Reunion, A Pip and Flinx Novel. I might add that Alan Dean Foster's Midworld should also be enjoyed prior to reading Mid-Flinx. In all four books, Alan paints a tapestry full of vivid characters, larger than life environments and surprise endings. I highly recommend them!
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Summary: Tar-Aiym Krang
Review: The book that started it all. It is a must have, if you plan on reading Mid-Flinx and Reunion, A Pip and Flinx Novel. I might add that Alan Dean Foster's Midworld should also be enjoyed prior to reading Mid-Flinx. In all four books, Alan paints a tapestry full of vivid characters, larger than life environments and surprise endings. I highly recommend them!
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Summary: An auspicious beginning
Review: The first of the 7 Flinx of the Commonwealth books. I don't think the Flinx books are actually an ordered series, rather they are just stories of Flinx and his minidrag Pip (a minidrag is a kind of lethal flying snake). In The Tar-Aiym Krang we are introduced to Flinx, a mind-reading orphan who lives off of his street act (and a little crime). Through some believable coincidences, Flinx ends up helping two scientists and a trader as they search for an ancient artifact, the Tar-Aiym Krang. Although the fact of the Krang is a little bit of an anti-climax, this book is a fine story and is also notable as the introduction of the entire Humanx Commonweath that Foster has returned to over and over.
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Summary: An auspicious beginning
Review: The first of the 7 Flinx of the Commonwealth books. I don't think the Flinx books are actually an ordered series, rather they are just stories of Flinx and his minidrag Pip (a minidrag is a kind of lethal flying snake). In The Tar-Aiym Krang we are introduced to Flinx, a mind-reading orphan who lives off of his street act (and a little crime). Through some believable coincidences, Flinx ends up helping two scientists and a trader as they search for an ancient artifact, the Tar-Aiym Krang. Although the fact of the Krang is a little bit of an anti-climax, this book is a fine story and is also notable as the introduction of the entire Humanx Commonweath that Foster has returned to over and over.
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