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Friday, 28 August 2015 05:22 pm
Book Review: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
I'd heard a middle portion of Salman Rushdie's kid book read aloud at a weekly story session in college (yes, we nourished our inner children together). More than a decade later, I could remember a few funny moments, but they turned out to be surprisingly far apart, so I must have spaced out. That's strange, since the story isn't dull the rest of the time.
Some of you may recall that I reviewed the much later sequel, Luka and the Fire of Life, dedicated to the younger Rushdie son, whose brother had inspired the character of Haroun. I'd enjoyed that book, but Rushdie was a tad out of his element in trying to incorporate video game aspects. HatSoS is a more traditional rabbit-hole fantasy (not sure of a traditional term for it), and that's fine by me.
( Plot summary )
( Some of the characters )
Classic? Probably. I don't put it on par with The Phantom Tollbooth, but it has some dynamics reminiscent thereof. If you can find it at the library, you should be able to breeze through it before the due date.
With that in mind, I decided to move on to the longest book on my shelf: The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Exactly 1,000 pages from start to finish, with a pretty small typeface.
Some of you may recall that I reviewed the much later sequel, Luka and the Fire of Life, dedicated to the younger Rushdie son, whose brother had inspired the character of Haroun. I'd enjoyed that book, but Rushdie was a tad out of his element in trying to incorporate video game aspects. HatSoS is a more traditional rabbit-hole fantasy (not sure of a traditional term for it), and that's fine by me.
( Plot summary )
( Some of the characters )
Classic? Probably. I don't put it on par with The Phantom Tollbooth, but it has some dynamics reminiscent thereof. If you can find it at the library, you should be able to breeze through it before the due date.
With that in mind, I decided to move on to the longest book on my shelf: The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Exactly 1,000 pages from start to finish, with a pretty small typeface.