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The pleasure of rereading, Jui 3 2006
This trilogy is closest to my heart, even after forty-five years of reading fairy tales, mythology, fantasy, and science fiction. The story, created world and characters represent a kind of truth to me more real than newspaper articles about ridiculous people and preposterous, if factual, events. The writing is elliptical; emotions, and often events, are not described implicitly, but in a way that captures their essence rather than their details. Details can often be gleaned in later rereadings, and the reader's emotional involvement with the characters is strengthened on a second or third re-reading because of a greater understanding of the characters' backgrounds, situations and emotions, greater than the characters' understanding of themselves. These books are more Monet than Dali or Frazetta, but beautiful if you have the time and patience to absorb them.
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Unequaled, Jui 14 2004
The Riddle-Master Trilogy was my first experience with McKillip and I must say she has now joined the uppermost ranks of my favorite authors. This series was just incredible. Not only is McKillip a true master of the English language-her phrasings are vocabulary are anything but cliché-and her creativity clearly outside of the box, but the way she so carefully and expertly opens the story to the reader places her head and shoulders above her contemporaries. She leads the reader on a glorious, soul-searching escapade where certain plot elements are introduced early enough that the identities and eventual destinies of several main characters are quickly ascertained but then she presents incongruous difficulty after difficulty that leave you thinking: well, maybe...no, that can't be it...but yes, it must be...how will she resolve this?... and so on. She carries the reader only so far into the mystery and then deftly skips from A, B, C to E, leaving D undefined and implied. But she never pushes it too far into the esoteric and eternally unreachable. The act of filling in the blanks gives the reader a sense of discovery that makes the story appear just that much more realistic and enjoyable. You are driven, as a riddler yourself, until the very end when it climaxes the way you predicted and yet you are so startled and overjoyed at the discovery in which you've been granted participation, that you aren't disappointed with predictability. Instead, you can't help but feel a terrible sense of loss at having come to the conclusion of such a beautiful thing. While the ending is left wide open, she resolves the plot difficulties she set out to resolve and doesn't waste time or energy on superfluous baggage. Her riddles are clever, her fictitious world is neither over nor under defined, and her characters as full of energy, strange goodness and strength as they could possibly be. The metaphors she uses-particularly regarding the concept of identity and form-are clever and philosophically sound. After reading this I felt like Goldilocks in the house of the bears: Neither too soft or too hard, McKillip's style is *just right*. I can see why she is the recipient of literary awards.
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Pride of Place on My Bookshelf, Jui 13 2004
The Riddlemaster of Hed was the first of Patricia McKillip's books that I read. I was drawn in by the disarming simplicity of words combined with such lyricism, such beauty, such honesty, that at the end of the three books in the series I could not pick up another book for days.I reread the series once, sometimes twice a year, and am still left with a sense of awe when I finish. There is no other trilogy that I would recommend so highly as this one.
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