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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Highly recommended to Malazan fans. I am not one of them, though. So, great worldbuilding, complex plot, flat characters and good writing, but really really boring for me. Honestly, I had much higher expectations. ( ) Surprisingly gripping. I thought the political/war-making plot would get dry. I was pleased to find Bakker's universe fairly original and thought-provoking, especially the mysterious Dunyain. I found the characters to be much more rounded than you usually find in fantasy/sci-fi. Will definitely read the next in the series. Surprisingly gripping. I thought the political/war-making plot would get dry. I was pleased to find Bakker's universe fairly original and thought-provoking, especially the mysterious Dunyain. I found the characters to be much more rounded than you usually find in fantasy/sci-fi. Will definitely read the next in the series. no reviews | add a review
Strikingly original in its conception, ambitious in scope, with characters engrossingly and vividly drawn, the first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a remarkable world from whole cloth-its language and classes of people, its cities, religions, mysteries, taboos, and rituals-the kind of all-embracing universe Tolkien and Herbert created unforgettably in the epic fantasies The Lord of the Rings and Dune. It's a world scarred by an apocalyptic past, evoking a time both two thousand years past and two thousand years into the future, as untold thousands gather for a crusade. Among them, two men and two women are ensnared by a mysterious traveler, Anasûrimbor Kellhus-part warrior, part philosopher, part sorcerous, charismatic presence-from lands long thought dead. The Darkness That Comes Before is a history of this great holy war, and like all histories, the survivors write its conclusion.|R. Scott Bakker holds a B.A. in English language and literature, an M.A. in theory and criticism, and is currently completing his Ph.D. in philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He lives in London, Ontario. No library descriptions found. |
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