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The destruction of the books
Odom, Mel.
Adult Fiction ODOM
From Publishers' Weekly:
Just as aged Bilbo Baggins gives way to a new hero, Frodo, at the start of The Lord of the Rings, so does elderly Edgewick "Wick" Lamplighter, now a Grandmagister at Great Library, leave center stage to a youthful prot?g?, the pint-sized Juhg, in this Tolkienesque sequel, set nearly a century later, to Odom's The Rover (2001). In the tradition of Fritz Leiber's immortal Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, Juhg and his burly human friend, Raisho, set out on a series of fantastic adventures, centered on a search for a rare volume that Wick wants for the Vault of All Known Knowledge. The narrative moves along at a snappy pace, with much good humor, zest and color, but around halfway through, the action becomes repetitive and the fantasy effects heavy-handed. Nevertheless, the magic lies in the details, where books and wizards, both good and evil, glimmer. Agent, TK (July 1) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
From Library Journal:
Master Librarian Edgewick Lamplighter of the Great Library has grown old and taken an apprentice, the young halfling Jugh, to gather the books of the world together in the name of conserving knowledge. When a retrieved book turns out to be a trap that results in the destruction of most of the tomes in the Vault of All Known Knowledge, a confrontation looms between those who wish to preserve the world's store of precious books and those who wish to see those books destroyed. Taking place nearly 100 years after the events of The Rover, Odom's latest novel is set in a world nearly destroyed by a great Catastrophe and peopled by warring societies. Raising questions about the role of information keepers while telling a rousing, swashbuckling story, this fantasy adventure, part of an ongoing series, belongs in most fantasy and YA collections. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Odom, Mel.
Adult Fiction ODOM
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From Publishers' Weekly:
Just as aged Bilbo Baggins gives way to a new hero, Frodo, at the start of The Lord of the Rings, so does elderly Edgewick "Wick" Lamplighter, now a Grandmagister at Great Library, leave center stage to a youthful prot?g?, the pint-sized Juhg, in this Tolkienesque sequel, set nearly a century later, to Odom's The Rover (2001). In the tradition of Fritz Leiber's immortal Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, Juhg and his burly human friend, Raisho, set out on a series of fantastic adventures, centered on a search for a rare volume that Wick wants for the Vault of All Known Knowledge. The narrative moves along at a snappy pace, with much good humor, zest and color, but around halfway through, the action becomes repetitive and the fantasy effects heavy-handed. Nevertheless, the magic lies in the details, where books and wizards, both good and evil, glimmer. Agent, TK (July 1) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
From Library Journal:
Master Librarian Edgewick Lamplighter of the Great Library has grown old and taken an apprentice, the young halfling Jugh, to gather the books of the world together in the name of conserving knowledge. When a retrieved book turns out to be a trap that results in the destruction of most of the tomes in the Vault of All Known Knowledge, a confrontation looms between those who wish to preserve the world's store of precious books and those who wish to see those books destroyed. Taking place nearly 100 years after the events of The Rover, Odom's latest novel is set in a world nearly destroyed by a great Catastrophe and peopled by warring societies. Raising questions about the role of information keepers while telling a rousing, swashbuckling story, this fantasy adventure, part of an ongoing series, belongs in most fantasy and YA collections. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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