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Don’t waste your time

Revisado: 06-15-24

If you want travel advice like, “Your kids might like mini golf” and “”Bring sunscreen,” then this book is for you. If you find it helpful to have someone tell you over and over that’s there’s “tons of options” and then fail to tell you more than one or two (easily found online) options, then get this. If you want think it’s good enough to recommend GONE WITH THE WIND as a good book (instead of the hundreds of books on the topic) to read to prep for coming to Gettysburg, this is for you. The author claims to have lived in the town for years and yet makes many mistakes on VERY basic information. I suggest looking elsewhere for a guide.

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Overlooked, underappreciated and forgotten epic

Revisado: 08-06-18

So many people love Watership Down--I am one of them--for its gentle and magical English storytelling. This book by the same author is such a different kind of story that if you read it expecting the same kind of experience, you are sure to be disappointed. If you instead put aside those expectations and read this book for what it is, it will draw you in and enthrall you. It starts with another animal character, which no doubt mislead some readers into what kind of book it will be. But the animal in question (an impossibly large bear) is just the catalyst for the very human stories of the people who encounter it. The novel traces the journey of a common man through very uncommon circumstances. Adams is masterful at world-building and at writing clear action sequences. His characters are incredibly different from one another yet entirely believable as residents of the same world. The chain of events as all the characters struggle with the consequences of their actions are at times graphically violent and other times deeply disturbing (such as torture of children) but at all times realistically human. As an audiobook this richly detailed story rewards repeat listenings. You pick up more nuances on each revisit. John Lee is superb as always--not many narrators could have handled the unusual character and place names as fluidly (if you never read the print version when it first came out, you may need to eventually to pick up the print copy to figure out what you're hearing--not uncommon with Fantasy books).

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Just my kind of book

Revisado: 10-29-17

I'm a sucker for anti heroes. The hangman fits the bill as the man most people in town want nothing to do with, out of fear, lack of respect or snobbery. Yet he manages to collect companions who see past the obvious and find the nobility within. Each of the companions is likewise someone more worth spending time with than the shallow villagers surrounding them. The world the author creates is very realistic and engrossing. I look forward to the rest of the series. Recommended for historical fiction fans with light elements of mystery and detective work such as is also found in Ruth Downie's Medicus series, with similar touches of humor and somewhat anachronistic language.

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