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Summary: Why 2 scenes of eyeball extraction in the first 90 pages?
Review: I bought this, my first OSC book, based on his reputation as a writer, the back cover blurbs, and the cover art which hinted at nothing of the violence that just made me have to put the book down. I would have liked to continue if just for the interesting history, but as I prefer to keep graphic violent images from clogging my imagination I just don't want to bother. After the second eyeball gouging scene I could not bear further cringing and said 'enough'.
Aside from the violence, the story was just barely engaging enough to keep me turning the pages. I found the main character shallow and not particularly interesting; there was nothing to make me care about what happened to him, not to even find out how he developed as a person, and so not much of a reason to continue reading. I found Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy (books that are shelved in the young adult fiction section) immensely deeper, more imaginative, engaging and meaningful. The writing in this Card novel will not urge me to pick up another of his books, at least without warnings of what kind of violence he includes in his storytelling. If I wanted that kind of experience I'd read horror novels, not sci-fi/fantasy.
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Summary: incredible
Review: I knew before I was even halfway through this that this would be my favorite Card book to date. And it is. Even after working through the Ender series and a couple of stand-alone novels, this still put me in awe. What can I say? Card has found that crossroads that everyone wishes for but few can reach: the intersection where supreme technical writing ability, research, and knowledge meets with engaging, "catchy," suspenseful fun-in-reading that spells gold for both the writer and the reader. Card has done a fantastic (as usual) job of showing parts of various cultures that American readers might not know so well (Judaism, Russia in general, ancient times). I think a large portion of his appeal lies in this: he shows us vivid pictures of things we don't experience in our everyday lives. He gives us the perfect escape, somehow making the unbelievable into normality. It's the kind of work that alternately makes me, as an aspiring fiction writer, want to give up because I know I'll never reach this level or feel supremely inspired and want to chug away at the keyboard all day. Read it!
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Summary: good book
Review: This was a good book about an enchanted princess in the middle of time bridge. It wasn't really my type of book, but it kept me interested. It's kind of hard to follow sometimes but you get back on track. Over all, it was pretty good.
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Summary: Sleeping Beauty Retold
Review: I LOVED this story. I rarely read fantasy, but a friend recommended the book to me and once I started, I couldn't put it down. A beautiful story with fantastic characters. A quick and easy read for men and women! You can't go wrong with this book!
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Summary: Intelligent Fantasy
Review: This is intelligent fantasy at it's best. I love the way Orson Scott Card portrays women; strong minded, not the usual "damsel-in-distress" you see in most fantasy novels. Great, easy read, for when you need some escapism!
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Summary: Card at his best, creating moral dilemmas & keeping us happy
Review: Great fantasy, not an elf, dwarf or quest in sight. Leave it to Card to create an alien moral dilemma in ninth century Carpathia that makes you examine your own life. And you thought Capathia was where the bad guy from Ghostbusters II came from! Get some culture. Read this book.
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Summary: A work of genius typical of Orson Scott Card
Review: This book stands out so much from other "timetravel" books that I think I will never be able to read another without thinking how typical it is. The characters are so real that you can truly empathize with them, even minor charaters like Sergei and the priest he worked for. The book doesen't feel like a fantasy or a love story, both of which it has parts of. It feels REAL, like something that could happen to you. And the characters feel just like you would feel if it did.
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Summary: This is one of THE BEST Of Orson Scott Cards Books
Review: Altough i have read some of cards other works i did not enjoy them as well as i enjoyed this. read no matter what u will really enjoy it.
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Summary: a science fiction fairy tale!!
Review: I have to admit that from the cover and description on the back, Enchantment looked like a really boring book. But thanks to amazon reviewers, I liked it because it was a fairy tale. Ivan, a Russian Jew, stays at his Uncle's home while he waits for his visa to come so he can leave Russia with his mother and father and start a new life in America. But while he is wandering the woods near his Uncle's house he finds a woman lying asleep with a huge bear guarding her. He remembers it when he comes to Russia as a young college student visiting his Uncle. He goes back to the woods and find the woman still being guarded by the bear. Thinking she's in some kind of trouble, he defeats the bear (he's also an athlete) by outrunning it and exhausting it and then finally taking one of its eyes out. He kisses the woman and she awakens. He finds out her name is Katerina. But soon Ivan finds out that he has to follow her over a bridge because like Sleeping Beauty, he has to marry her. Ivan finds out that the bridge leads to 890 AD, which is the time period that Katerina is from. Katerina turns out to be the Princess of a kingdom he has never heard of. Because he is to be the future king Ivan has to learn how to fight in battle and he finds out that he is not meant to be a soldier at all and he has to deal with an evil witch named Baba Yaga that wants the princess's kingdom. On his wedding night he and Katerina escaped to 1992, the time that Ivan lived. They take gunpowder and other modern weapons back to 890 and teach the people there how to use them so they can defeat Baba Yaga. This book deserves more than 5 stars!! Orson Scott Card really knows his stuff!!
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: What if Sleeping Beauty really was not a fairy tale, but a true stroy that had been turned into a legend? What if she really did exist? Card writes about a modern young man, Ivan, who stumbles upon a sleeping beauty. He then asks her to marry him just like the fairy tale, except he does it to prevent a bear, who is really a god from eating him. The story progresses from Ivan following Katarina into her kingdom, which is from the Russian dark ages to fighting a wicked witch named Baba Yaga. Card bounces nicely back and forth from the modern world to the primevil world. His antagonist, Baba Yaga is a great evil witch who places the princess under a spell to steal the kingdom for herself. She is at once both the ugly fairy who places a curse on Sleeping Beauty and the wicked queen of Snow White. I could not put this book down the entire read. It is very engrossing and fun. Card does a wonderfull job of interweaving the reality of the old world problems and the fairy tale. He writes about the warts left out of the fairy tales about views and medevil thoughts, but leaves enough magic in the story to leave the reader cheering at the end of the book. This is truly a masterpiece. I am so glad I had read it. You will be also.
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