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Thursday, 26 May 2016 06:09 pm
Book Review: The Book of Ti'ana
I rescued this pretty tome from the giveaway shelf before my company saw fit to discontinue it. If it weren't free, I wouldn't have bothered. As it was, I surprised myself a little by actually reading it -- in full, no less.
See, it's based on the Myst series, on which I have mixed feelings. Besides, adaptations from games to anything other than games rarely do well. Certainly literature offers no direct interaction, and the graphics are limited to the occasional B&W drawing of ordinary scenery. But the Myst-verse seemed ripe for decent extensive storytelling, not least because of its major premise of Linking Books that literally transport you to other worlds when you touch pages.
My personal experience of the series consists of large chunks of the first and third games and all of the second. Thankfully, this book by game co-developer Rand Miller was written in 1996, so I wouldn't expect to get left behind with assumptions of preexisting knowledge of later entries.
( Plot summary )
( Huh )
I'm glad to move on to a more consistently favored classic in the wake of my birthday, Callahan's Cross-Time Saloon by Spider Robinson. My sources offer no alternative first name for him, so no wonder he grew up to be peculiar.
See, it's based on the Myst series, on which I have mixed feelings. Besides, adaptations from games to anything other than games rarely do well. Certainly literature offers no direct interaction, and the graphics are limited to the occasional B&W drawing of ordinary scenery. But the Myst-verse seemed ripe for decent extensive storytelling, not least because of its major premise of Linking Books that literally transport you to other worlds when you touch pages.
My personal experience of the series consists of large chunks of the first and third games and all of the second. Thankfully, this book by game co-developer Rand Miller was written in 1996, so I wouldn't expect to get left behind with assumptions of preexisting knowledge of later entries.
( Plot summary )
( Huh )
I'm glad to move on to a more consistently favored classic in the wake of my birthday, Callahan's Cross-Time Saloon by Spider Robinson. My sources offer no alternative first name for him, so no wonder he grew up to be peculiar.