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Loading... Vellum (edition 2006)by Hal Duncan
Work detailsVellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan
Some interesting ideas but way too long and seemed to go round and round without any clear storyline or plot. I ended up skipping a lot of the last third. Unlikely to bother with the second book. (  ) SChant | Apr 26, 2013 |  I wanted to love this book, and there was so much about it that was really wonderful--this author is clearly scary smart and wicked talented--but in the end it left me cold. I can handle lots of time and world shifts and all of that, and I get it about the characters being archetypes, but for me there were just too many elements that were introduced too late to fully find their place in the structure (not to mention the amazing disappearing Anna--"why don't you step aside, dear, and let us fellows carry the real story"). Still, I'll be interested to see what else Duncan comes up with. ( ) savoirfaire | Apr 6, 2013 | How do you make the novel _Vellum_? Mix one part Michael Moorcock, add in a dash of old Saturday morning serials, combine with Roger Zelazny and a final heaping helping of an undergrad po-mo survey course. Mix to a turgid mess and voila! (  ) dulac3 | Apr 2, 2013 | This proves that I am just not cut out for the sci-fi/fantasy book world. ( ) Rincey | Mar 29, 2013 | I tried with this book - I really did try. I went so far as to leave it in the car so that when I was waiting and bored I'd have no alternative but to read it and, I hoped, get into it. It never happened though. A dense, non-linear story with not much plot and constantly changinf points of view, peopled by unlikeable characters, and involving the war between demons and angels, all proved a bit much ( ) adpaton | Mar 5, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345487311, Paperback)An extraordinary, incendiary debut from a rare new talent, Vellum showcases a complex and sophisticated level of writing coupled with a fecund imagination that defies description.VELLUM: THE BOOK OF ALL HOURS It’s 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human; now they are unkin, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of reality itself. They seek The Book of All Hours, the mythical tome within which the blueprint for all reality is transcribed, which has been lost somewhere in the Vellum–the vast realm of eternity upon which our world is a mere scratch. The Vellum, where the unkin are gathering for war. The Vellum, where a fallen angel and a renegade devil are about to settle an age-old feud. The Vellum, where the past, present, and future will collide with ancient worlds and myths. And the Vellum will burn. . . . (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:40:32 -0500) In 2017, beings that were once human gather to fight to control the Vellum, but to the Irish angel Phreedom it has become clear that there is no divine or diabolic plan at work, only a vicious battle between the hawks of Heaven and Hell. (summary from another edition) |
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