Second ever reject...
Nov. 30th, 2006 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveOne cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten. The Prince of Nothing, book 1 - The Darkness That Comes Before R. Scott Bakker
...and one cannot write a book review for a book that one simply cannot get into. I've been trying to read this book since August 28th, when I finished Some Place To Be Flying, which I'm not sure I ever reviewed. I got a bit lax around then with the reviews... but still... after three months I'm still only on page 45, and finding any and every excuse to do something else other than read this book. I even read two others because I couldn't bring myself to open the covers of this one.
I'm sure it's a very well thought out story, and I feel so bad that I've given up on it, but I don't know whether it's the author's style, or what it is. I just can't get into the story and other than what's in the blurb, I couldn't even tell you what it's about. So I simply quote what seems to be the pertinent points of said blurb.
A score of centuries has passed since the First Apocalypse. The No-God has been vanquished and the thoughts of men have turned, inevitably, to more worldly concerns... After two thousand years, the No-God is returning. The Second Apocalypse is nigh. And one cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten...
...and one cannot write a book review for a book that one simply cannot get into. I've been trying to read this book since August 28th, when I finished Some Place To Be Flying, which I'm not sure I ever reviewed. I got a bit lax around then with the reviews... but still... after three months I'm still only on page 45, and finding any and every excuse to do something else other than read this book. I even read two others because I couldn't bring myself to open the covers of this one.
I'm sure it's a very well thought out story, and I feel so bad that I've given up on it, but I don't know whether it's the author's style, or what it is. I just can't get into the story and other than what's in the blurb, I couldn't even tell you what it's about. So I simply quote what seems to be the pertinent points of said blurb.
A score of centuries has passed since the First Apocalypse. The No-God has been vanquished and the thoughts of men have turned, inevitably, to more worldly concerns... After two thousand years, the No-God is returning. The Second Apocalypse is nigh. And one cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten...
