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Loading... The Sunset Warrior (original 1977; edition 1983)by Eric Van Lustbader (Author)
Work InformationThe Sunset Warrior by Eric Van Lustbader (1977)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. F/SF This was an an odd book. It is ostensibly a post-apocalyptic adventure, but the standard social tropes get quickly overwhelmed by bizarre timing, broken dialog and an utterly opaque main character. Over if the things I found hardest to get my head around was the use of immediate flash forwards-a scene will end, then jump to action happening apparently somewhat later, and then jump back in a page or two to fill in the gap.l, showing there was really only a couple of hours difference. Why? Then there's the dialogue. It's a jumbled mess, at times, where characters are unable to make sentences, and speakers are unmarked, creating utter confusion. And yet the action is tense, and the world is just unusual enough to remain interesting. It's a fun, if often confusing, sword and sorcery meets Wool kind of book. I first read this trilogy back in the mid-1980's and rated it pretty high then. Unfortunately book 1 does not fully stand the test of time. There are elements that remind me why I liked this story back in the day but there are other elements, (disjointed descriptions, klunky dialog, illogical settings, etc), that lowered my rating of this re-read. In fairness to Lustbader, he imagined a post-apocalyptic underground 'silo' type of dwelling long before Hugh Howey came up with his take on it. Howey just did it better all around with a more detailed world, more interesting characters, better dialog, and a coherent delivery. The first half of the book jolts around a bit and doesn't spend time setting scenes and building characters in a smooth way. If this was any other book, I'd have put it down by now except for the author's reputation and better reviews of his later books. The second half though does pick up the pace and scene descriptions start to flow better. I'll persist with this through to the end of the trilogy. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: First in the Sunset Warrior cycle: "Vivid sword and sorcery adventure" from the #1 New York Timesâ??bestselling author of The Ninja (Publishers Weekly). Centuries after an ecological calamity turned the surface of the world to ice, mankind has retreated beneath the earth's crust. In the contained environment of the Freehold, civilization reverts to feudalism and lords known as Saardin maintain their grip on power through the strength of their Bladesmen. Among these subterranean samurai is Ronin, an unaffiliated warrior who lives by his blade alone. When war threatens to engulf the Freehold, this wandering fighter will be called on to save mankind.
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