The Library at Mount Char

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Jesus," he said. "Was there an accident?" His voice was warm with concern—the real kind, not the predator's fake that the last man had tried. She heard this and knew the old man was seeing her as a father might see his daughter. She relaxed a little. Anyone can read from the blurb that these kids were adopted when their parents were killed by some bomb. They were adopted by the FATHER, he is a god, or God or something. He brought the kids to live in the library and they all had sections they were assigned to and they had to learn that all the time. Then FATHER goes missing, or is he missing? I can't even give a review it's so strange to try to do without some major spoilers. When we are introduced to a couple of characters from the real world, both Hawkins strengths and weaknesses begin to show. Like James Herbert or Stephen King, Hawkins is able to give a short but intensive character portrait and history making the worlds of his human characters as rich as that the Pelapi. I also really admired the way he was able to show the Pelapi through seemingly every day human eyes, and show just how twisted even the nicest of them are, Carolyn most definitely included.

Steve was staring at her. He was thinking, 'This woman is... not insane, exactly... something else?' What he said was, "Have you not heard of cellphones?" An engrossing fantasy world full of supernatural beings and gruesome consequences." ��� Boston Globe Steve sighed, wishing for a cigarette. “The Buddha teaches respect for all life.” “Oh.” She considered this. “Are you a Buddhist?” “No. I’m an asshole. But I keep trying.”A wholly original, engrossing, disturbing, and beautiful book. You’ve never read anything quite like this, and you won’t soon forget it. Surprisingly for a book set in the US, lions play a significant role in the story! Given my knowledge of lions (gathered solely by watching David Attenborough etc) I would say that Hawkins doesn't know much about lions (I don't think the male head of the pride goes hunting with his female cub ... I think the males laze around and the females hunt). But this is a minor niggle and I may be wrong! I actually really liked the lion sections. Freakishly compelling . . . through heart-thumping acts of violence and laugh-out-loud moments, this book practically dares you to keep reading. ” —Atlanta Magazine One of the most sadistic characters, if not the most sadistic character, I've come across in fiction, Father is thousands of years old and has written the books contained in the world's largest library (the one at Mount Char), cataloging all of the knowledge of all times. When Carolyn's and 11 other children's parents are killed, Father adopts them all and begins training them to be Librarians. The ways in which he does so are..... are.... well, let's just say he would never win the Parent of the Year award. So when I heard tell of a book which was apparently so hard to categorise it was said to be in a genre of its own, I of course had to try it.

Get the feeling I’m trying not to tell you much about the story? You’re right. That’s because I think this is a book where the less you know, the better off you are. I simply recommend you open your mind and let Hawkins take you away. My conclusions If someone had described this book in detail to me, I would have sworn I would hate it. Instead, I absolutely, 100-percent loved this book! The horrors and gore were at times overwhelming, and yet.... and yet I could not stop reading this! Scott Hawkins, how the hell has he not published more novels??? This man is a genius! He is Stephen King on LSD. This book is incredibly imaginative, the characters so real even as they are fantastical. The world building, the character building, abso-freaking-lutely everything about this book is AMAZING! And Carolyn, who is studious and organized by nature, has a plan. It’s actually a pretty damned good plan. I’m making progress.” He turned and rumbled to Naga in the language of the hunt: “Thank you for not eating me today.” Naga’s voice came from the darkness: “Your affection is not meaningless to me, puny one. I shall devour you another day.”as a lad, I grew up in a household that was just not into the traditional concept of God, or into God at all. my dad was sort of an atheist and my mom was sort of an existentialist (which amounted to basically the same thing, to me at least). like most kids, I rebelled against my parents' rule. I did this by finding God. haha, that really came out of left field for my parents! this included accepting Christ as my personal savior, going to bible study, and a few summers spent at a religious camp. at the end of one such summer, the pastor had a practice of gathering us all together to answer any questions we might have. I had a classic one: "If God truly loves us, why does He allow bad things to happen to us?" I recommend The Library at Mount Char for readers of science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism. If you need straightforward stories, this probably isn’t for you. I am absolutely amazed by what I have just read, and I'm bumping this one up to one of my top ten novels of all time. It's just that good. A first-rate novel… a sprawling, epic contemporary fantasy about cruelty and the end of the world, compulsively readable, with the deep, resonant magic of a world where reality is up for grabs. Unputdownable.

What I am trying to say is that it was odd, I often had no clue what was going on, but I loved every second of it! I'm good. Still clearing my head. Thanks, though." She stretched her face into something like a smile. sci-fi жанра би си пожелал. Интересни герои, за които да ти пука, страховита ситуация и препускащо темпо на събитията, съчетани с превъзходното авторово въображение и усет към детайла. Като добавим изпипания стил и липсата на разтегливост в текста, се получава приятно, занимателно и дори смешно на моменти четиво. Може и по сълза да се пусне в края, никой няма да ви се подиграе. Gods walking the earth is one thing, but to actually watch them perform an infinite regression of events to create their own successors in such a way that the poor sap doesn't even realize it until long after the big battle is a scale of craft that ought to be left to actual gods, and not some person named Scott Hawkins, who, out of the blue, blew my mind by actually pulling it off. Once upon a time, there was a dude - Scott Hawkins. He lived quietly in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and his dogs. And he was working on projects and books for Unix/Linux.Steve didn’t like the stairs. It bothered him that they hung in midair, unsupported. Steve said this “weirded him out." Do you have any grocery lists I can read? Also: thank you for your book. Also also: how in the hell did you come up with ANY of it. I'm not sure I do either, honestly. I mean, I know what he did to us, but I really don't have any idea why." Okay, I have to admit, in the beginning of the book to almost half way I wanted to stop reading and run away. I didn't like it or know what was going on half the time!