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Sto caricando le informazioni... Un milione di porte (1992)di John Barnes
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1198461.html A great read: perhaps reflecting a bit the fall of the Wall and globalisation more generally, it's about an encounter between cultures, the dour market-driven frozen colony of Caledony being forced to open up to the rest of the galaxy and in partiicular to the romantic troubadours of New Occitan. Lots of interesting politics and general growing-up for our Occitanian narrator as he realises more about the problems of his own society as a result of his Caledonian experience. I'll hunt out the rest of this series now. I can't stop re-reading this book! It's one of my top-5 favorite books of all time! I'm interested to see what book this lost the Nebula to because it definitely deserved it! The language is so well thought out, the cultures so well fleshed-out, the narrator so strong, you feel so immersed and even culture-shocked. John Barnes KNOWS how to write - he's not kidding around. You get a fantastic story and fantastic writing. You don't always get both. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Nou Occitan is a place where duels are fought with equal passion over insults and artistic views alike. Giraut--swordsman, troubador, lover--is a creature of this swashbuckling world, the most isolated of humanity's Thousand Cultures. But the winds of change have come to Nou Occitan. As the invention of the "springer"--instantaneous interstellar travel, at a price--spreads throughout the human galaxy, the stability and purity of no world, no matter how isolated, is safe. Nor can Giraut's life remain untouched. To his wonder, his is about to find himself made an ambassador to a different human world, a place strange beyond his wildest imaginings. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This book is a lot more exciting than what I’ve described. I’ve done a poor job. Giraut is shown to be a shallow cad who learns, to a certain degree, that he is and is forced to make some changes. Caledon undergoes some radical changes and we apparently learn puritanical religious cultures are essentially evil and stupid. At times, this is a very entertaining and interesting book. At times, it’s annoying as hell. Often, you can’t understand the words being used and there’s no dictionary, so you just have to guess. Often you just want to slap Giraut upside the head for being such a shallow, rather stupid young person who’s a snob. But then he does something good and you relent. At times, it feels like the author is preaching anti-religion to you and while I’m generally okay with that, as I’m not overly fond of most religious cultures, I can see where devoutly religious readers might be offended. Apparently, this is the first book in a series, although I’ve never seen any of the other books in the series. I’d be open to reading the second. So, above average. At times, quite good. At times, annoying. Three stars. Cautiously recommended. ( )