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Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick has been known for decades as one of America's most gifted and extraordinary storytellers; her remarkable new novel has established her as one of the most enticingly readable as well. Heir to the Glimmering World received exuberant reviews after its hardcover publication, and Ozick, on her first-ever book tour, was welcomed by standing-room-only crowds. Reading groups, too, have embraced the novel, which was selected by Ann Patchett for NBC's Today Show Book Club. Set in the New York of the 1930s, Heir to the Glimmering World is an entrancing, richly plotted novel brimming with intriguing characters. Orphaned at eighteen, with few possessions, Rose Meadows finds steady employment with the Mitwisser clan. Recently arrived from Berlin, the Mitwissers rely on the auspices of a generous benefactor, James A'Bair, the discontented heir to a fortune his father, a famous children's author, made from a series of books called The Bear Boy. Rose watches as the refugee family's fortunes rise and fall, against the vivid backdrop of a world in tumult. Ozick's novel is a thrilling read that will undoubtedly gain this lauded author new readers in paperback.
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Disquieting mix of tragedy, irony, and satire, brilliant if ultimately unemotional.......2007-08-05
Despite an ending which brings fortune to the surviving characters, this is a tragic tale of loss and misfortune. A German couple -- he a scholar of an ancient Jewish sect, she a physicist -- flees Germany during the rise of Naziism and relocates to Brooklyn. His work captures the interest of John A'Bair, a young man whose father produced a popular children's book series based on the child this young man once was. When his father dies, John inherits his fortune and uses some of it to support the Mitwisser family, at first because he is fascinated by Mitwisser's research and later because he falls for the Mitwissers' eldest daughter. Into the Mitwisser household comes 18-year-old Rose, the orphaned daughter of an algebra teacher at an Upstate NY prep school who is also a gambler. Left penniless when her father dies, Rose lives briefly with her distant cousin Bertram to whom she forms an unrequited romantic attachment. Then she responds to a classified ad to become the 'amanuensis' of Heir Mitwisser, soon finding that the job entails caretaking of the Mitwisser children and their mentally unstable mother. These are some of the events of the plot.
But the book is also a satire of textual and scholarly pursuits, and of Marxist idealism. Through the eyes of the guileless and accepting Rose, we watch Mitwisser toil away in obscurity, the only attention from colleagues coming in the form of criticism and rejection. Wife Elsa's promising career as a physicist ends abruptly with their exile from Germany. In her new home, she assumes the role of the 'madwoman in the attic'. Bertram falls in love with a Marxist revolutionary who takes all his and Rose's money to go fight in the Spanish Civil War, where she dies. All the main characters lose something important -- parents, home, love, career, money, life. No one survives this story unscathed. Fortune sadly returns to the Mitwissers and Bertram with the suicide of John A'Bair, who could never imagine a life for himself outside of the prison of fame garnered by the stories his father contrived. But the only truly fortunate character is Rose, who can finally leave the Mitwissers in the competent hands of Bertram and begin her life unencumbered.
Of Heirs and Orphans.......2007-03-22
Set in the late 1930s, Cynthia Ozick's newest novel is narrated by Rosie, a recently orphaned girl who has come to work as a live-in typist for Professor Mitwisser, an emigrant who fled Nazi Germany with his family for upstate New York and then the Bronx. Mitwisser studies an ancient sect called the Karaites who shun interpretation of the scripture as heresy, even as they write and analyze the fallibility of other religions' commentary on the bible. The family lives off of the generosity of James, an unstable patron and friend of the family who aids as well as disrupts them. Rosie shares a bedroom with the Professor's mentally unstable wife and also occasionally looks after the youngest of the five children. Throughout most of the novel she is alone in a house full of people. However, despite being treated coldly and solely as a "tool" she gains something from this family. In the most ecstatic passages in the novel Rosie describes her role as typist: "a motionless scene, I with my fingers stilled on the light-stippled glass of the typewriter keys, a twisted tail of hair sucked in at the side of my lip, he standing giantly over me, submerged in his dream of forgotten heresies." This beautifully written book raises the question of what can we inherit and from whom, even when "historyless" like this sensitive narrator.
Interesting Charactor Study.......2006-12-31
In this book,a young woman poetically named Rose Meadows goes to work for the Mitwissers,a family of German-Jewish refugees from 1930's Europe. As a typist for the eccentric scholar Mr. Mitwisser as well as helping to look after his now unstable wife, (who worked as a doctor of research in Berlin) and help with their large (5 children strong) family. At first Rose feels unsure of her status within this chaotic household,but she gradually develops a bond with the family,the father in particular. The are in dire straits as far as money is concerned as well and they eagerly await the arrival of mysterious benefactor, James A'Bear,(whose father used as a model for a series of childrens books about a "Bear Boy") Having met the family at a boarding house in upstate New York,he then takes them under his wing by getting them an apartment in the Bronx,so the father can be close to New York and continue his research of an obscure Jewish sect there. James is kind,generous,funny and an achoholic who feels resentment toward his father;therefore he spends his royalties freely on this family and lives a nomadic life-style which later involves the family's eldest daughter Anneliese,who falls hopelessly in love with him. This book, though subtly written,has strong,complex charactors. Even Rose,who is basic a reactionary charactor,has some "skeletons" of her own concerning her father,a compulsive gambler who dies tragically before she goes to work for the Mitwisser's. This also includes a "cousin" who joins the Commmunist party through his infatuatuion with a young woman who calls herself Ninel(Lenin spelt backwards). This book ,in spite of it's rather downbeat subject matter has a dry,ironic tone to it,as well as an unexpected upbeat ending of sorts.As a window into the depression-era as well as the plight of the refugee, this is a sharply written,involving book.
Strange characters. Great writer........2006-11-03
Rose, a smart young woman with little hope of opportunity, finds employment with a family of well-educated Jewish Germans, the Mittwissers, who have traveled to New York evading Nazi persecution. Mr. Mittwisser is harsh & obstinate, finding no scholarly interest for his research. The only time Mr. Mittwisser yields is in the presence of a massively famous children's book heir, James A'Bair, who intermittently showers the family with trivial gifts and funding for Mr. Mittwisser's research. Mrs. Mittwisser is driven to madness by their plight. Once a prominent German physicist and colleague of the famous German physicist Erwin Schrödinger, Mrs. Mittwisser believes she's entitled to his Nobel Prize. The Mittwisser children are arrogant and unruly despite the fact that they have nothing. James A' Bair never seems able to rise above his inheritance & unwanted fame. Rose, only needing a little money to begin her young life, keeps getting sidetracked by others' interference.
The story is mainly character driven, though the plot is sound. The real gem is the writer. Her deft character development makes one actually care what happens to these unnerving people. I can't say that I ever 'liked' them, but I did want to know what happened to them.
I'd recommend this book for those who enjoy historical fiction, Jewish interest, or well written models of character development.
A total bore........2006-07-19
I started out interested, but kept waiting for the story to go somewhere. I was totally bored and gave up at page 100. None of the ladies in my book club (we chose it for our monthly read) liked it. They all thought I made a wise decision, and wished they hadn't wasted time completing it. We questioned the San Francisco Chronicle's description of it as a "rollicking story". Chicago Sun-Times called it "funny and witty and engaging." Did we all read the same book????
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Title: Cynthia Ozick. Heir to the Glimmering World.(Book Review)
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The third stand-alone adventure for the new Eberron campaign setting.
This full-length adventure for the newest D&D® campaign setting showcases many of the most unique traits of the Eberron setting. It plays out across the Eberron world and is designed to either be a stand-alone adventure or an immediate follow-up to the first and second published Eberron adventures, Shadows of the Last War™ and Whispers of the Vampire's Blade™.
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Grasp of the Emerald Claw.......2007-05-09
Bruce R. Cordell wrote this adventure. I've liked everything written by Bruce R. Cordell (In fairness, there are a few pieces that I don't rave about). This piece is no exception.
This is the conclusion of the story begun in The Forgotten Forge in the Eberron Campaign Setting and continued through Shadows of the Last War and Whispers of the Vampire's Blade. I haven't had the chance to read the last two adventures in this series (much less review them) so I'll review this as a stand-alone piece.
In this series, the characters, working for house Cannith, are trying to assemble four schemas which together compose a powerful artifact called the Creation Pattern, a left over from the Age of Giants. A group called the Emerald Claw is also searching for these schema. So what keeps this from being a standard "MacGuffin" plot?
The Creation Pattern is evil.
After the inciting incident of The Grasp of the Emerald Claw, the enemy possesses all three of the known schema and begins searching for the fourth. The character's must be the first to get to the last schema. It's their only hope to stop the Emerald Claw (and perhaps find the first three pieces). No one realizes that Creation Pattern has plans of its own.
The resulting adventure has the feel of the old pulp adventures. Picture King Solomon's Mines. More accurately, picture Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea meets The Heart of Darkness meets Congo (the novel, not that horrible Laura Linney movie). It is a fun, entertaining romp.
One of the strengths of any Cordell adventure is the level of thought he puts into realistic detail. Ancient traps run out of power over time, character motivations and twists are well drawn and and the ecology of the dungeon holds together. If there is a creature too big to escape the room where it lives (and there is), you know how it got there, why it got there, and what it eats.
My complaints with this module are minor. Some of the dialog or description clunk once in a while. An encounter or two feels forced., but this is nothing that should hamper anyone's enjoyment of the adventure, especially if the DM does his own descriptions instead of reading "boxed text."
My biggest complaint has to do with the climax. This takes place in a interesting looking room. In effect, this is the opposite of the "Steam Factories" you see at the end of so many movies. You know the place. The hero and the villain end up grappling in a factory with no workers that seems to produce nothing but steam. This adds delicious threat to the fight scene, as long as the viewer doesn't think too much about why the factory is there or what it is doing.
As I said, the climax of this adventure takes place in the opposite setting. The room has a purpose, it's filled with stuff, yet accept for the climactic fight, nothing here is dangerous. I think that Cordell had a wonderful opportunity for a rich and dangerous tactical environment and missed it. I would suggest to any DM running this adventure to make this room come to life, it shouldn't be hard to rationalize how. Your game will benefit from it greatly.
I'd recommend this adventure to anyone playing in the Eberron setting. It might not be Cordell's crowning achievement but it's a good, solid module and a step above many of the adventures one sees these days.
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This crime adventure begins when heroine Modesty Blaise finds Luke Fletcher, one of Britain's greatest artists, lost on a raft in the middle of the ocean. This discovery leads Modesty to an island called Dragon's Claw, where the evil Sam Solon has kidnapped the world's leading art experts, keeping them prisoner to admire his collection of stolen art treasures. Along with Willie Garvin, her loyal lieutenant, Modesty begins to unravel a complex set of murder mysteries until she is suddenly held captive herself. Modesty relies on her ingenuity and resourcefulness to escape from Solon and his two hired killers, Revered Uriah Crsip and Beauregard Browne, as well as solve the crimes and lure the evil men into an inescapable trap. With Modesty's adventurous character and a thrilling plot, this novel is an exciting addition to this acclaimed series of crime fiction.
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Super Reader.......2007-08-30
This book is not quite as interesting as the others, but still enjoyable. The band of villains, in general, would not find having lunch with The Joker disagreeable.
The fire and brimstone preacher fastest gun in the world guy discovers, much as Gallandro did with Han Solo in Brian Daley's trilogy, that speed isn't everything.
I didn't know how she would get out of that execution/shootout scene, so O'Donnell continues to pull marvelous rabbits out of hats.
Once it was down to 2 on 10, rather than 2 against 20 odd, the bad guys were outnumbered.
"Yes, he's pretty good for a vicar. Who gets first crack at him?".......2006-12-29
"Dragon's Claw" is the ninth book in the Modesty Blaise series, and was first published in 1978. This book, like the others in the series, features Modesty Blaise and her loyal sidekick Willie Garvin in an action thriller, pitted against some really nasty bad guys.
The story is fairly satisfying. The bad guys are kidnapping and killing people from the world of the arts for a reason that is unusual but not totally farfetched. Modesty, while sailing a yacht single-handed from Australia to New Zealand, rescues Luke Fletcher, a world-renowned painter. Luke Fletcher had disappeared in the Mediterranean Sea several months previous and was presumed dead - how in the world did he end up adrift in a dingy in the Tasman Sea?
This rescue leads to a relationship between Modesty and Luke, and eventually to a hunt for the bad guys, and finally to an action-packed climax on Dragon's Claw Island. A high point is a Wild West style duel with handguns between Modesty and the Reverend Uriah Crisp, a gun-toting minister who has proven that he is faster on the draw than Modesty!
The quotation that heads this review, "Yes, he's pretty good for a vicar. Who gets first crack at him?", is Modesty's remark after Uriah Crisp has demonstrated his prowess with a six-shooter, and Modesty and Willie have been told that they are scheduled to die in duels against the Reverend Crisp. (page 235)
Although I found the story satisfying, I also found it a bit contrived. If one bothers to analyze the plot in the last four chapters one realizes that there are several more obvious ways in which Modesty and Willie could have escaped from captivity on Dragon's Claw Island. But then the story wouldn't have had such a nice climax, so we accept the contrived story as a minor negative point.
A more serious problem is the portrayal of the bad guys, in particular Beauregard Browne (with an "e"). Peter O'Donnell was obviously striving for an interesting combination of an upper class Englishman with campy/gay tendencies (and frilly lilac shirts and painted toenails) who was still a deadly and formidable opponent for Modesty and Willie. For me it doesn't quite work. I find Beauregard Browne (with an "e") more silly than scary. A thriller depends to a large extent on the nastiness of the bad guys, and this is the weakest aspect of "Dragon's Claw".
Otherwise the book has the usual mix of very positive elements found in all of the Modesty Blaise books. This includes the unusual relationship between Modesty and Willie, the intelligent and humorous slant on things and Modesty's and Willie's inventiveness and their amazing fighting skills.
The book is very well written, and Peter O'Donnell has a great command of the (British) English language and a wonderful way with words. Consider the following sentence:
"There was an almost unlimited number of vexations she (Mrs. Rigby) found insupportable, such as abstract art, amateur psychologists, association football, and Australian cricketers, to name only the first few alphabetically, but when she declared her inability to tolerate these affronts, she invariably described them as unique in this respect." (page 80)
In conclusion, not one of the best Modesty Blaise books, but still recommended, even after all these years. If you've never read a Modesty Blaise book then do yourself the favor of starting from the beginning of the series, both because there is a developing background to the stories and because the first six books in the series are the best.
Rennie Petersen
Chasing the Dragon.......2000-10-23
You can't keep a good girl down, and Modesty's the best. Lose her in the middle of the ocean, alone on a yacht and you can bet she'll find trouble. This time round a rescue at sea pitches Modesty into the hands of some daring Art Thieves. Who is their mysterious backer, and where is the loot being stored? Leave it to Modesty and Willie to turn the tables on the bad guys and come out (relatively) unscathed. They even have time to practise their latest hobby in the middle of a fight for survival. That takes dedication. Dragon's Claw is hard to find, harder than most Modesty titles, but go find it: you'll be glad you did.
No Modesty involved.......2000-06-08
Peter O'Donnell has done it again! I love his Modesty stories, and this book just made me want more. Willie Garvin and Modesty are the ultimate daring duo. No matter the situation, they always come through and with style and class....and of course with their customary wit and humor. Keep up the good work and Please Please write more!
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o Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King's Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In two successive novels, The King's Name and The Prize in the Game, she explored more of the world of The King's Peace. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Now Walton returns with a very different kind of fantasy story: the tale of a five siblings dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband. Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw. Here is a world of politics and train stations, of churchmen and old family retainers, of courtship and country houses. And in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which society's high and mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby. You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw.
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Victorian mores brought into physical reality.. for dragons!.......2006-12-26
As with the best Victorian novels, this story grows on you gradually. I was surprised to find myself drawn so throughly and vividly into this hybrid universe. Walton's writing is light and taut, understated but gripping.
a Victorian comedy with Dragons.......2006-11-09
Jo Walton's Tooth and Claw is a wild romp, mixing and melding genres and categories by rules and for purposes that only gradually become apparent. Tooth and Claw is a fantasy novel in which all the main characters are Dragons, written as if it were written by Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, or Charles Dickens. It's an amusing conceit that seems as if it would play well in a short story but lose momentum in the greater scale of a novel. But as the reader is drawn through the book, as the back story begins to become clearer, as marriage proposals and lawsuits come and go, the scope of Walton's audacity becomes evident. As does the nature of her work: Tooth and Claw is a comedy. And a very funny one.
Immensely enjoyable, very witty, retelling of Trollope in draconic terms.......2006-08-18
Tooth and Claw is something quite different to Jo Walton's first three novels -- it is a fantasy set in a world in which dragons are real. Its plot is based on Anthony Trollope -- specifically Framley Parsonage. With the details of dragon physiology and culture cleverly molded to fit the Trollopian view of Victorian England.
One lack in Walton's first novels is wit, and any sense of lightness. To be sure the novels are all to an extent tragic in outlook. At the same time, though, Walton seems so immersed in her imagined world that she doesn't want to play with it at all -- the books are quite earnest in tone, often a bit too earnest, or even ponderous. But Tooth and Claw, happily, is abundantly witty.
The novel opens as the old dragon Bon Agornin is dying. His son Penn, a clergydragon, hears his confession -- which is controversial according to Penn's religion. (It harks of the Old Religion -- setting up a conflict analogous to Victorian Era attitudes of Anglicanism towards Catholicism (and possibly a bit towards Methodism and other dissenting sects).) Bon's confession includes a shameful secret about his rise from a poor dragon to wealth and relative social standing. Then Bon dies, and his body is divided according to tradition, with his heirs each eating a portion. It seems that dragon meat is magically useful to dragons, allowing them to grow and thrive. However, against Bon's apparent wishes, his son-in-law, the Illustrious Daverak (equivalent to perhaps an Earl?), takes a large portion for himself and for his dragonets. This enrages Penn and his younger sisters and brother, and sets in play the main motivating force of the plot -- a lawsuit that Penn's brother will bring against Daverak.
Bon Agornin's children are the already mentioned Penn, Daverak's wife Berend, another son, Avan, who is establishing himself a position in the Civil Service, and two maiden daughters, Selendra and Haner. Penn has a living with a very high ranking dragon family, the Benandis. He is able to take in one sister, Selendra; but Haner must go live with the unpleasant Daverak. Daverak's bad nature consists of such things as abusing his traditional right to cull weaker dragons (for their meat), forcing his wife to get pregnant too often -- which can fatally weaken a female dragon, and mistreating his servants. This then is Haner's problem. Selendra's conflict is that her virtue is compromised by an oily clergydragon -- leaving it possible that she will not be able to get pregnant. Then it seems that the young Exalted Benandi (a Marquis?) is falling for her -- very much against the wishes of his stuck-up dowager mother. And Avan, back in the capitol city, has a live-in lover who has a couple of important and dangerous secrets of her own.
It all works out with the precise unwinding of the plot of a Victorian novel -- and in quite satisfying fashion. The real delights of the novel are the affectionately portrayed characters, the great fun Walton has mapping dragon physiology to her plot needs, and the wit. And small things like the offhand revelation of the origin of the name Yarge, which applies to the soft-skinned bipeds with whom the dragons have historically warred. I enjoyed Tooth and Claw as much as any novel I've read recently. It won the World Fantasy Award -- an award I am happy to endorse.
Spectacularly Original.......2005-12-30
This is one of the few books I have ever read in my life where, immediately upon finishing it, I turned right back to the beginning and read it all over again. There are some truly memorable characters in this book. Their dragon nature is very much part of the story -- it's not just a stunt, telling a story that could easily have been done with human characters. Applause to the author for a truly original work, a joy to read (and reread).
I would like to add: If an animated film is ever made of this story, it would be wrong not to beg Stephen Fry to provide the voice of Daverak.
Rugby Anyone?.......2005-08-10
Jo Walton's clever tale (tail?) of manners among landed dragons is like a rugby match. All violence and blood on the field and polite clapping on the sidelines. It reads quick and fun with characters you'll love to hate and a love story to live by.
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The story of Rostam and Esfandiyar is one of the most moving tragedies in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh. In this story, Esfandiyar, the designated heir to the throne of Iran, has just returned in triumph from his campaign against the shah of Turan. He has slain Arjasp, Iran's greatest enemy, captured his family and treasury, and liberated his own sisters from their captivity. He expects that his father, Goshtasp, will now abdicate the throne of Iran in his favor as he had sworn to. Goshtasp, however, is not yet ready to honor his promise. Instead he sets his son yet another task as a condition of his abdication. He must bring Iran's greatest hero, Rostam, back to the court in chains. Rostam has neither come to the court of Iran to honor Goshtasp, nor has he sent him a letter declaring his loyalty. Esfandiyar recognizes this is simply a means to put his own life at risk, and says as much. Yet he cannot refuse his father's command.
This tale displays a surprisingly modern skepticism about the values we associate with the Shahnameh. It expresses a profound ambivalence about the demands of heroism, and is sharply critical of a monarch who exploits the courage and loyalty of his heroes to further his own selfish ends.
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Dragon's Claw (Doctor Who)
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In a world where human domination depends on the absence of magic, a child is born carrying a prophecy that will challenge everything humanity has come to believe in. The baby is sent off to a far away village ignorant of her destiny, but the royal kingdom of Niugru, as well as the child herself, soon come to discover that Destiny can never be cheated.
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