The Year Of The Warrior: Amazon.ca: Lars Walker: Books

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"The book is not for spiritual sissies . . . rowdy action and a realistic look at the human and spiritual costs of religious and cultural conversion".

-- Florida Today

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Intelligent and Refreshing... Year of the Warrior Succeeds, Oct. 27 2002

Par	"tysonfrits" (Brentwood, CA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires

I feel that the publishers did this book a diservice by naming it the Year of the Warrior, as well as marketing it as a "swashbuckling, slice-and-dice adventure story" (see the picture on the front cover). I picked up this book as a quick weekend read, not really expecting much and found a rare jewel. This book reminds me of Gene Wolf's Shadow of the Torturer and Claw of the Conciliator. It is deep, moving and draws you into a world of moral dilemma and search for meaning. The book is intelligent and as a man who searches for meaning myslef, i found this book really resonated with my own struggles. A definate recommend.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Excellent Book, Juil 5 2002

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I really enjoyed this book. It's a rousing adventure story with great characters. The men and women portrayed, while flawed, are interesting and help draw you into the story.

The author paints a wild and untamed world with danger around every corner. The type of world I love to read about. Also, the struggles the characters go through to understand their world and their relationship within it is intelligently done. It's a good tale of spiritual journey.

Once you start this book, you'll finish it quickly. I look forward to more tales about Erling and Ailill. Nice Job!

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Heroic fantasy that stands out from others, Janv. 1 2001

Par	Extollager (Mayville, ND United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires

Too many recent fantasies seem to have been written by authors who know other recent fantasies -- and that's about all they have to draw upon.

Not Lars Walker! Walker is telling his own story -- and what a storyteller he is -- but his imagination is drawing on a much richer compost than (it seems to me) most authors command. Walker knows the Icelandic sagas, and has adapted the terse saga style for the modern fantasy reader. Thus he provides us with a series of memorable supernatural incidents -- pagan gods, werewolves, ghosts -- and battle scenes, but he doesn't "write them up" in pulp magazine style. You may find yourself going back and reading again some of these scenes, to savor how really eerie or violent they are. His locales are generally convincing; they do not seem to have been invented by a writer who is making things up as he goes along.

There's human depth here, too. Walker gets me interested in characters without halting the story for extended patches to "work up" the description of the person. Here are men and women with blood in their veins.

I'm teaching an undergraduate course on modern fantasy. If I'd known of this book in time to include it in the reading list -- where it would have been in the company of Tolkien, Le Guin, and Peake -- I'd almost certainly have done so. I would have liked to include an example of really worthwhile swords-and-sorcery fantasy -- and that's what we have here!

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5.0�toiles sur 5 An intelligent look at religious issues
My husband and I have read books aloud together for years, and science fiction and fantasy is our favorite genre for this purpose. Read more

Publi� le Jui 26 2000 par Mrs. Donihue

5.0�toiles sur 5 A great read
I wasn't expecting much from this book. Happily, my expectations were far too low. This book was just plain fun. Read more

Publi� le F�v 29 2000 par Gregory T. Dougherty