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Here are some facts: "Allan Daniel Stein was born November 7, 1895, in San Francisco, the only child of Michael and Sarah Stein. Mike, the older brother of Leo and Gertrude, sold a streetcar business in 1903 and moved with Sarah and Allan to Paris. Gertrude and Leo had preceded them." Here are some fictions: Three missing Picasso sketches may establish that Allan was the model for the painting Boy Leading a Horse. An initially unnamed narrator, fired from a teaching position for having sex with a 15-year-old student before he'd actually seduced the boy, assumes the identity of his close friend Herbert, a Seattle museum curator, and goes to Paris to look for the drawings. There, he becomes obsessed with Stéphane, another 15-year-old boy.

Like Nabokov's Lolita, Allan Stein depicts human sexuality in a way that is as captivating as it is disturbing. But the pedophiliac element--and its graphic manifestations--should not necessarily frighten readers away. Matthew Stadler's ornate, twisting sentences show strong sensitivity to place and setting, whether he's describing the streets of Paris, the French countryside, or a cluttered bar in Seattle. There's also a strong undercurrent of ironic humor, particularly in the exchanges between the narrator and the real Herbert and in the narrator's memories of adventures shared as a boy with his mother. Allan Stein is a book (and Matthew Stadler an author) one might be tempted to ignore as "difficult." In doing so, however, one would be overlooking a unique gem. --Ron Hogan

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Comic, erotic, and richly imagined, Allan Stein follows the journey of a compromised young teacher to Paris to uncover the sad history of Gertrude Stein's troubled nephew Allan. Having been fired from his job because of a sex scandal involving a student, the teacher travels to Paris under an assumed name -- that of his best friend, Herbert. In Paris, "Herbert" becomes enchanted by Stephane, a fifteen-year-old boy. As he unravels the gilded but sad childhood of Allan Stein, "Herbert" is haunted by memories of his own boyhood, particularly his odd, flamboyant mother. Moving from the late twentieth century back to the 1900s, effortlessly blending fact and fiction, Allan Stein is a charged exploration of eroticism, obsession, and identity.

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"It was simply the boy - the boy was sufficient".......2006-10-16

Startlingly intelligent, 'Allan Stein' is a literary novel rich in descriptive detail, imagery and flowing prose which merges the past and the present in a simultaneously witty and poignant search for identity.

Our narrator is a school teacher 'on leave' following a (false) accusation concerning a teenage pupil by the latter's parents. Ironically, the accusation gives rise to a genuine relationship with the boy. As this subsequent relationship wanes, the narrator becomes caught up in the fantasy of the long-deceased subject of a Picasso portrait. He sets off to Paris, under the guise of being a museum curator, searching for some Picasso sketches of the boy in question. Initially comfortable with this liberating change of identity, the narrator becomes infatuated with the teenage son of the family with whom he is lodging in Paris. The novel then charts the course of his relationship with the boy, the boy's family, and the myriad of other enigmatic characters that he encounters.

Indeed, Matthew Stadler's gift for characterisation is partly what draws the reader so deeply into the narrator's world. The intimate portrayal of the 15 year old boy, Stéphane, is particularly honest and vivid. There are no delusions here - the boy may be stunningly beautiful (the moment of meeting him "made a tear in the fabric" of the narrator's day) but equally (referring to Stéphane's 'digestive problems') it proves "alarming that such an exquisite surface could contain all that flatulence"). The author's descriptions of the boy's mother, Miriam, and the narrator's own mother, are equally realistic and clear - which serves as a stark contrast with the narrator's own, more fluid, personality and sense of self. It is a testament to the author's skill that this self-insight grows in such an organic way that, by the end of the novel, the realisations that our narrator achieves are natural and just. It is thus not so much a journey of self-discovery, as a gradual transfer of self-knowledge from the subconscious to the conscious.

If you are seeking a light-hearted plane-journey read, you might be advised to look elsewhere. Matthew Stadler's novel deserves active, thoughtful participation. You will be well-rewarded, however, as his expertly-drawn characters, enchanting dialogue and erotic, humorous prose, combine to make 'Allan Stein' an exceptionally insightful work that will undoubtedly withstand any test of time.

A Tom Jonesque romp en reversis.......2006-01-01

"...I'm threatened by the boy as a site of divinity and spiritual deliverance." -Matthew Stadler

This is not only "a haunting testament to unfulfilled desire" but to UNFULFILLABLE desire: very young yet nubile men possess an hermetic quality, an inaccessible psyche that makes them more desirable, less attainable. This reality, and the narrator's growing desperation--the boy's emotional immaturity acts as a kind of spiritual chastity belt, no matter how much sex they enjoy together--are very, very amusingly evoked in this sensual, very well-written picaresque.

15, by the way, is the age of consent in most European countries, 14 in Spain.

Allen and his horse .......2004-12-01

I agree that this a just another version of "Lolita". But in contrast to "Lolita", the descriptions are much more subtule and less confusing. The author has a sense of reality which he desrcibes and smooths over with romaticism.

I am sorry to say that I did not find this book to be so absolutely shocking as others did. It is really not that bad, and honestly, now-days this stuff probably is more common than a few years back. If girls are willing to have an affair with an older man, why is it so difficult to imagine that boys might too?

But what touched me deeply was the author's shyness with the matter. Don't get me wrong, he describes things almost fully, but he does it in a manner that seems chaste to me. He says things like, "If the reader cannot stomach more of this, turn to page 47 for resumed dialouge" and "much to some readers pleasure, and to some reader's horror" (when he says that he slept with the Turkish boy).

Of course, pedophilia is not very right, but it does happen. He deals with it beautifully, and his character pretty much beds only boys that are willing. He doesn't force them, so that also makes it forgivable.

The Abbey Road of Transgressive Literature.......2003-04-10

Stadler is in his ornate phase. The usual development of an artist in any medium is toward the baroque and ornate, a place the Beatles arrive at with St. Pepper's or Abbey Road in the late 1960s. It is, I confess, my favorite phase. Some may prefer the surreal comedy of Stadler's "Sex Offender," a novel simpler in theme: exotic sexuality vs. prosaic society's love-hate response to it. From my point of view, this is Stadler's masterpiece.

Stadler's sentences are lush and meandering. His descriptions, perhaps overlong, reward with poetic grandeur and learned reference. He is a prose-poet of the senses, akin to Arthur Rimbaud or Garcia Lorca, the latter of whom his lead character uses to seduce a Seattle high school boy he tutors.

His lead character is on paid leave from the school under a cloud of suspicion. He uses the hiatus to investigate an artistic mystery, the life of Allan Stein, famous Gertrude's nephew and the possible model for a famous painting. Matthew moves from rainy Seattle to sumptuous Paris, where the sensual descriptions continue to impress. In a piece of droll postmodern self-referencing, Stadler describes his own style and aims while ostensibly talking about Lorca's: "Lorca's poem might appear to be unreal, but its dreamlike consistency can supplant waking reality by the force of a new coherence & logic."

Edmund White, who soaked himself in all things Parisienne while writing the biography of Jean Genet, admires this book. It is, like White's writing, extremely sophisticated and sensual. Like Stadler's previous novel "Sex Offender," "Allan Stein" shows the ways in which, to use a Nietzschean paraphrase, "Sexuality penetrates the loftiest reaches of the intellect." "Allan Stein's" 15yo boys are described in the same way: as lean and smooth, as having near-visible hearts beating close to their ribcages, as being more interested in sex than Matthew's intellectual observations.

Stadler's response to his disgraced teacher's ephebophilia and the turbulence it may well provoke in him and in society is a relentless romanticizing. If this kind of love is unnatural, Stadler embraces the unnatural, as found in florid writing, art museums, and exotic Francophilia. As such, he does not attack this taboo directly. What is a loss for advocacy is a gain for literature.

Intriguing, but ultimately disappointing.......2002-08-11

This novel mixes art history with the fictional present. Matthew, a young teacher in a private school, is accused of molesting one of his students. The turth of this is is that he has not molested him - yet. Ironically his suspension from the school gives him and the student the opportunity to consummate these accusations, from which Matthew is even more ironically cleared.

During his suspension, Matthew and his friend Herbert, an art museum curator, discuss a painting by Picasso called Boy Leading a Horse. Herbert discusses the painting and the past that the boy was the nephew of Gertrude Stein. He suggests there must be sketches this boy that somehow could be obtained by going to Paris and meeting the family. Matthew now interested in Allan Stein, long dead by this time, gets Herbert's permission to assume his identity, fly to Paris and hunt for evidence and sketches of Allan.

Matthew stays with the Dupaigne family and becomes attracted to fifteeen-year-old Stephane. At this point author Stadler interposes Allan Stein's life as a teen-ager as a counterpoint to Matthew's attraction to Stephane. It is as though Matthew obsessed with Allan is trying to seduce a boy who was Stephane's age in the early 1900's with Stephen himself.

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"Will I like this book?" asked Deborah Harry, the still sultry lead singer of Blondie, when recently presented with an advance copy. She definitely will, and so will you!

Blondie, From Punk to the Present: A Pictorial History is the first new book on Blondie in two decades. Over three years in the making, this unique and distinctive 8 1/2" x 11" softbound book contains 514 pages of articles, essays, and photographs.

Blondie took the music world by storm in the late '70s and early '80s, and the influence of this band and its lead singer Deborah Harry is still being felt today and increasingly recognized with the passage of time. Blondie reunited in the late 1990s, produced a new album, No Exit, in 1999, and another album is due in 2003. In the meantime, we all await with anticipation as to what Blondie holds in store for us in the future.

New York City-based Blondie was formed in 1974, honing its musical skills at the famous punk rock club, CBGBs, and eventually emerging on top of the new wave scene and then crossing over to the pop music mainstream. Their self-titled first album, Blondie, reflected a punk ethos and 1960s girl group sensibilities or, the Ramones meets the Ronettes, as one music critic opined. Blondie made six albums from 1976 to 1982, the most successful being Parallel Lines, considered by many music critics to be one of the best rock albums of all time. Within this time span, from the late seventies to the early eighties, Blondie constituted a major force on the rock/pop scene, producing a string of hit singles internationally. The most well-known of these singles are the reggae-inspired "The Tide Is High," the rap song "Rapture," and the disco-flavored "Heart of Glass" and "Call Me." More recently, in 1999, the single, "Maria," debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, making this song the sixth number one single for the group there. With this hit single, Blondie reached yet another milestone—the first band to have had a number one single in each of the last three decades in the United Kingdom. So Blondie continues to make music history and the band's legacy grows. The members of Blondie are true pioneers in every sense of the word.

This comprehensive compendium is more than the usual anthology since it contains essays from such well-known insiders as Chris Stein, Blondie's co-creator, and Victor Bockris, respected music journalist and critic.

The text is divided into chronological sections covering the early days of Blondie, punk rock and new wave music a quarter of a century ago, through Deborah Harry's solo career, the band's reunion, and into the new millennium.

In addition to the comprehensive text, the book is about one-fifth photographic content, and is divided into three sections covering the band's early years, Debbie's solo period, and the band's reunion.

The large photo sections present the fine work of such internationally acclaimed rock photographers and photo documentarians as Roberta Bayley, Bob Gruen, Stephanie Chernikowski, Marcia Resnick, Tina Paul, Mick Rock, Ebet Roberts, Joe Ryan, Pete Still, Mike Morton, Sylvie Ball, Teresa Hale, and many more.

The volume is rounded out by a series of selections in an Appendices section, an extensive Bibliography, and seven indexes. The book constitutes a valuable reference resource, and encompasses the more general subject of American popular culture.

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The book is a must for the Blondie fan.......2004-08-20

This book is a tour-de-force exegesis of the entire Blondie career and the effect lead singer Deborah Harry has on the role of the blonde female vocalist in pop and rock. Nearly the first third of the book is given over to the punk milieu from which Blondie sprang and Blondie's role in that scene. This makes the book a fascinating overview of the nascent New York City punk scene. Like the rest of the book, several authors contribute pieces of no more than a few pages. This makes for much redundancy as the same topics are covered, but treat this book as casual reading and reference and the many points of view coalesce into detailed complete if kaleidoscopic view of the territory. In here are some real nuggets, like the uncensored interview of Harry for High Times and cross interview with Nina Persson of The Cardigans. There are plenty of photos from all parts of the Blondie/Deborah Harry history and some interviews with the photographers. "Part IV: In Retrospect" contains discographies from the U.S. and U.K. perspectives along with many pages of appreciations from various authors. Metz gives a short synopsis of each article explaining how it fits in. The book is a must for the Blondie fan and adds much to those that are interested in the NYC punk landscape she grew out of.

Blondie Heaven!.......2004-07-01

A must! Go into the world of one of the greatset bands in pop history! I can't say in words how much of a Blondie fan I am! And when I saw this book here at amazon I got it as fast as I could. This tells everything about the band! It talks about each album, each struggle, and there big success! Blondie fans must own!

An overdue Christmas present for Blondie fans.......2004-01-26

Full disclosure: I have an article reprinted here ("Blondie: Once More Into The Bleach," DISCoveries, 9/99). That said, I'm pleased at how this project turned out. I read it in two subzero vacation days here, and couldn't put it down once.

From Punk To Present works well as a photo essay, scene history, and critical overview (including the band's triumphant '99 comeback). This is a Christmas present for the Blondie/Deborah Harry fan - and long overdue.

The best selections put Blondie in context of its often-turbulent times. Kudos here to Robert Betts's interviews with longtime scene photographer Roberta Bayley (whose nonchalance wins points for charm ); Victor Bockris (whose censored High Times interview elicits some candid admissions about Harry's struggles with drugs); Francois Wintein, for his freewheeling interview with drummer Clem Burke (a great subject, as I can attest); and original bassist Gary Valentine.

Being a collector type myself, I also appreciated the forays into less-obvious terrain, including Harry's work with the Jazz Passengers ("Private Lesson: Debbie Does Jazz"), and the reunited band's bid for radio acceptance ("No Exit In Sight: The Rebirth Of Blondie" -- which reminds us of the skewed promotional logic that prevails in the music business. For anyone writing off Harry's `80s and `90s solo work as chopped liver, Daniel Porter provides a thoughtful, balanced assessment.

I would have liked tighter editing of the academic pieces, and interweaving of photos into the lengthier selections, just to give the reader's eyes a break. (Of course, printing budgets play a role in these decisions, so that's hardly a knock.) That said, this book's sprawling nature is part of its charm; it's not aimed at the attention-span-starved armchair quarterback, but the bug-eyed fan who owns those "New Zealand"-only disco mixes. There's nothing like a fan's book for fans; now let's see an updated version to accompany the new Blondie album!

Ink the Flesh.......2003-06-02

A labor of both love and lust, this hanging-on-the-telephone-book sized compilation feels like a fansite that somehow sneaked off the web and onto a printing press. An overemphasis on their 1999 comeback and fuzzy photos gets it docked a star, but it's hard to argue with such woozily wondrous excess, both the author's and the band's.

Blondie,From Punk to Present.......2003-03-27

If you are a Blondie fan or just someone who wants to know all about the band that started it all this is the book for you.Excellent!...

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Contemporaries and snobs,
Laura (Riding) Jackson
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The Devil Within
Allan H. Stein , and Cynthia Stein
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In each of us there is a dark side that we are unaware of. It lies deep within the psyche. This is the story of Eugene Stone, a 17-year-old kid from New York who unknowingly awakens a force from within that he calls upon and assumes is God. Eugene starts as a young, innocent boy headed to an environment that will change him forever: World War II. As a young paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, Eugene repeatedly makes a bargain with the force he calls “God,” promising, “Let me live, and I will fight all of your wars until I am no longer physically capable.” As each conflict passes, this once-handsome young boy hardens in heart and soul, visible in his face and the stare in his eyes. His anger and joy are almost one and the same. With whom did he really make his bargain? God or the Devil?

Parochialism and pluralism in cyberspace regulation.(Choice of Law and Jurisdiction on the Internet ): An article from: University of Pennsylvania Law Review

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Parochialism and pluralism in cyberspace regulation.(Choice of Law and Jurisdiction on the Internet ): An article from: University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Allan R. Stein
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Title: Parochialism and pluralism in cyberspace regulation.(Choice of Law and Jurisdiction on the Internet )
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We All Lost the Cold War.: An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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We All Lost the Cold War.: An article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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This digital document is an article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc. on September 1, 1994. The length of the article is 2069 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: We All Lost the Cold War.
Author: Allan S. Krass
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Act I draws to a close.......2007-09-25

This book is odd enough in the Deverry series in that in contains no "flashbacks". The entire story is told in linear fashion, following Jill and Salamander as they try to find and rescue Rhodry in the southern Bardekian archipelago. I admit this is somewhat of a disappointment for me, particularly since "Bristling Wood" introduced one of my favorite flashback storylines, and then left me hanging until Book 5 to pick it up again. Ah, well.

The story in the present picks up with a poor, confused, kidnapped Rhodry being sold into slavery in Bardek. (Kerr has indicated that the Bardekians are Hellenized Moors, but I don't quite buy it.) His kidnapper, a peon of the dark dweomermaster known as the Old One, has destroyed his memory, so he can't even get all Paris Hilton and yell "Do you know who I am?!?" because he doesn't know, either. Meanwhile, his lover Jill and his half-brother Salamander march resolutely down to Bardek to rescue him single-handedly. But even once they do (come on, you knew they would) there's still the Old One to worry about. Will Nevyn arrive in time to save them? Will Rhodry get his memory, and his inheritance, back? Will Jill kill Salamander before he starts to teach her dweomer? Stay tuned!

Again, this book is not my favorite in the series. Part of it is that the last third, when the forces of good track down the Old One, is disappointingly reminiscent of the showdown with Alastyr in Book 2. Part of it is the lack of storylines set in the past, as I mentioned above. And part of it is the way this section of the series wraps up. See, although the whole series stretches to (so far) 15 planned books, Kerr has divided it into several "acts," and "Dragon Revenant" is the final book in Act I. So by the end, she resolves quite a few characters' destinies and wraps up some storylines. And believe me, I completely understand and agree with the way she does it - but that doesn't mean I don't still want a happy ending! So intellectually, I appreciate the way this book ends, but emotionally, I'm sulking in the corner.

But you can't have everything. And never fear, (almost) all of our beloved characters will return again in "A Time of Exile," although perhaps not in the way we imagined. This book, while not the best in the series, is still a fantastic piece of work and one I highly recommend to serious fantasy fans everywhere.

Fourth of the Ten (currently) in the Series.......2006-08-01

For years the provinces of Deverry have been in turmoil; now the conflict escalates with the kidnapping of Rhodry Maelwaedd, heir to the throne of Aberwyn. Intent on rescuing him, his beloved Jill and the elven wizard Salamander infiltrate the distant land of Bardek, where Rhodry is held captive. Tied to Deverry by obligation and circumstance, the immortal wizard Nevyn begins to see that all the kingdom's problems can be traced to a single source: a master of dark magics, backed by a network of evil that stretches across the sea. Now Nevyn understands that he too is being lured to Bardek--and into a subtle, deadly trap designed especially for him.

Katherine Kerr's writing takes a bit of getting used to, but it's worth the effort. She approaches her stories with a Celtic storytelling mindset, which means she conveys events according to their significance to the story, as opposed to chronologically. Consequently, while the stories begin in the "present" (which is an elastic concept, anyway, in a fantasy setting), the events unfold, chapter wise, both in the "present" and in the distant past. This can be frustrating, at first, but Kerr's writing is heavily steeped in Pagan and Western Mystery tradition, and the Celtic setting (and mindset) of her characters means that time, or chronological time, is not essentially relevant. To be honest, I found the first book infuriating, as I spent a lot of time trying to adjust to the writing style. However, I found the story engrossing enough that I persevered, and by the second book was so hooked I've read all ten in her three series.

Kerr's story evolves around the concept of reincarnation, and unfinished business, and "karma", and fate. The same souls recur again and again, just in new bodies, over the course of the centuries over which the story unfolds.

Kerr's world is one of High Fantasy, populated by Elves, Men, and Dwarves, as well as faeries/elementals, which she terms the "Wildfolk". However, hers is a slightly more dark, dangerous and less clear cut world than the works of other High Fantasy authors, not the least due to the fact that someone who was your friend in a former life can re-emerge in the story centuries later as a foe, and vice versa. There is a tremendous amount of magic, but it's the magic of the Western Mystery tradition (quite a bit of Golden Dawn and even Enochiana), and that of R.J. Stewarts Faery tradition. There are dragons, and giant beast men.

The Elves are a fallen race, driven out of their magnificent and palatial cities centuries before by invaders, and who now roam the plains as primitives. They possess the potential to be superlative magicians, but the knowledge was lost in the fall of their civilization. Humans, though warlike and shorter lived, have preserved this knowledge, but guard it jealously. The Wildfolk, basically magic incarnate, are unhinged from the effects of "karma", but lack permanence of personality, and cannot grow or develop, cursed to stagnation. The Dwarves are a secretive mystery, entrenched within the earth. Each has something to offer the other, and the story that unfolds is the story of this "technology" exchange, of sorts, between them.

Fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley, who clearly influenced Kerr, will be enraptured by this series, as will fans of Kate Eliott, who Kerr, herself, clearly influenced. It's phenomenal! Devotees of the New Age, Esoteric or Occult will find themselves nodding and smiling as they read, and sincerely hoping Kerr's writing will do for the Western Mystery and Faery traditions what Bradley's has done for Wicca.

Not terrible, but Kerr can do way better..........2000-03-15

Fans of Deverry might want to give me a beating here, but in my opinion- Kerr is definitely capable of better stuff. Until I got to this book, everything she put out amazed me. I even gave Bristling Wood 5 stars. Through out Dragon Revenant there were some traces of the Katherine Kerr I know and love- especially in the beginning and the end, but the middle (the entire portion that involved Rhodry as a slave) bored me and dragged out for way too long. I kept waiting for Kerr to erupt into one of her trademark flashback sequences- but was left hanging. I respect the possibility that maybe she was bored of doing this, but I still want to know how the Silver Dagger group's origin story turns out- a tale left unfinished from the middle of the last book.

I have a confession to make... Halfway through, I quite frankly gave up on this book and went on to read twelve other books. But for the first time in my life I resumed reading a book I had given up on- This was solely because of how much I enjoyed her first three books, and my hope that the next few would be up to her usual par.

A few things did impress me here though. Salamander- a very interesting character is fleshed out for the first time. Kerr's dialogue and Deverry's culture give her works a wonderful feel. I would have enjoyed a grander resolution between Rhodry and his brother/enemy Rhys, but the ending made the book worth while with several surprises and a very neat closure to the whole series. Or was this just a bridge? On to Omens and Exile for the answers I go. And I can't wait to get to Dragon Mage since I previewed the first chapter- looks exciting!

as good as the previous volumes`.......2000-02-11

Kerr has a good series going here. While I always seem to compare stories to my two personal favorite authors, Terry Goodkind and Robert Jordan, this series has definitely landed a close third on my list behind Goodkind. I enjoy Celtic storylines and her characters do come to life well. It can slow down at times, but I am half way through and enjoy it. A book that I look forward to reading when I get home is a rare thing for me to find now days, and this series has supplied me with several.

A good all around fantasy.......1998-08-21

I read this book over the summer and enjoyed it very much. The three main characters; Jill, Rhodry, and the wizard, are very well developed. I was moved to the point of being disgusted with Rhodry's self centeredness and self absorbed behavior typical of a spoiled monarch's son. He is the only survivor of his older siblings and becomes only heir to the throne, but there is a plot afoot to get rid of him and start a war that will devistate the people of Deverry. Then there is the wizard who is responsible for the deaths of Rhodry and Jill in their previous lives and wants to correct it. Reincarnation and other beliefs are expressed in this book and make it more interesting. Half of the book describes Rhodry's exile and captivity arranged by his captors until Jill and the wizard come to rescue him and the book then goes into describing their escape. It is slow moving at times, but has a very good ending. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in fantasy.

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The Dragon Revenant
Katharine Kerr
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Captivating, well written, and detailed.......2000-06-01

As the 5th book in the Westlands novels, The Dragon Revenant introduces a number of new characters and plot twists. I enjoyed the ongoing connections between past characters that had played somewhat minor roles in previous books but that were reborn in this one. The evolving interplay between the elven population, the "round-ears", and the Guardians created new ground for subsequent books and held my interest through the end. I can't wait to read the next book!

4 Titles By Katharine Kerr Deverry Series (1-4) : 1. Daggerspell 2. Darkspell 3. The Bristling Wood 4. The Dragon Revenant

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