The Hollowing

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Summary: Another pearl from Robert Holdstock...
Review: ...well it truely is, I can't really see it in a bigger picture since I have not read all his books that takes place in Ryhope Wood, also known as Mythago Wood, but it takes place in the years after 'Gate of Ivory'...
I really enjoy all the strange things that appears in this book and I haven't been able to find it anywhere else, by any tother writers, which isn't so bad, since it makes Robert Holdstock to stand out in the mass.
Enjoy it!!!!

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Summary: Myths and Mythagos
Review: A tale such as The Hollowing is hard to write a review for... When I first read it, I found it a bit hard to get into. You see, the first 100 pages was about the main character's life with his son before the disappearance. I was wodering why the level of detail... Then the storyline began to progress quickly as the nature of the diappearance became apparent. By then I couldn't put the book down. The story begins in roughly 1962 and restarts 10 years later after the characters life has decintergrated. A group of scientists inform him that his son is still alive within a place called Ryhope Wood. The child used to play near there with a young girl who went missing and he is supposedly making the place dangerous.
It is about the dedication of a father, and a son lost in eternal youth within a nightmare of his own creation. The father must respond to a place where time and space is irrelevant, and where a myth can become tangible as well as dangerous. It is a place where you are often your own worst enemy... There is a word to describe this book: WOW!

Dianne

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Summary: MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I don't normally read this type of material, but I found this book quite interesting. It begins well, but begins to drown towards the end.

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Summary: Book # 3 of Mythagos is better than # 2!
Review: I found this book to be incredibly interesting and in some ways insightful. Holdstock has a wonderful imagination and talent for combining what is very close to if not an original myth to the subconscious perspective of his characters. I learned from his mythagos, and his view of the human mind or being. I met soldiers from ancient Rome, the Argonauts and legends I never even knew existed. Even though I was somewhat disappointed with his ending, it left me thinking about the determination of his characters, his wonderful mythagos, and imagination itself.

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Summary: The Interdimensional Forest
Review: Robert Holdstock has come up with a remarkable literary creation with his Mythago Wood. A deceptively small wooded lot next to an English village turns out to be a vast haunted forest where the laws of time and space are twisted beyond comprehension. The wood is inhabited by figures from the mythologies of many different lands and eras, with scenes powered by the imaginations of the mortals that have found themselves enthralled by the forest. This is a great concept that Holdstock has explored in several books, but unfortunately in this one the concept doesn't come to full fruition. The book starts strongly as the protagonist Richard enters the wood to find the spirit of his son Alex, who is believed by everyone else to be dead, but whose haunted imagination has become one with the even more haunted forest, bringing out the worst of mythological horrors. But for some reason this book drastically loses focus in Part Three, where the chapters start to become detached explorations by Holdstock of various old myths with only tangential connections to the main storyline, including one ridiculously long chapter dwelling on a past-their-prime Jason and the Argonauts. More fundamentally, from beneath all this mythological doodling, Holdstock has not adequately explained either the true workings of Mythago Wood, nor Alex's spiritual connection to it. Holdstock's Mythago Wood premise is surely fascinating, but unfortunately this strangely schizophrenic installment fails to make full use of the concept's potential. [~doomsdayer520~]

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Summary: Book # 3 of Mythagos is better than # 2!
Review: The Hollowing was a much faster paced book than it's predecessor, Lavondyss. Where Lavondyss stagnated after a little over half way thru, The Hollowing kept going onwards.
A father's search for his lost son in the woods of mythago is a tour-de-force read. From primal man to Jason and the argonauts - how could you go wrong here?
If you want a different sort of read than your average fantasy fare - look no further!
Characters grow and adventure bounds in this intensely harrowing adventure the likes of which I'll continue to discover. From dream-like sequences to horror-filled creatures - this was a thrill ride read.
Now, which book is number 4??