League of legends broken
That tension is mostly in if the reader is tempted to read the voluminous endnotes Don t read the endnotes don t pick fights with the authorThe reader does not pick up a 700 page densely written book with the picture of a white panther on the cover in front of a stony prominence Broken expecting to get a lecture on the proto Germanic origins of the word thud Or on the shortcomings of Gibbon and Burke in not noticing the obscure etymology of words that the author has made up All this kind of crap is in the endnotes Avoid them Almost every one of the endnotes is a case of authorial Look at me This is me being clever Did you get that Here it is again.
Brokenness in the world
There is much historical material referenced in the book One character in the books recounts that he knew and traveled with Saint Boniface c 7th century A. The legend of broken bow D There s also reference to the Christian religion coming out of Rome But it is interesting to note that the author has selected a time heart of the dark ages and place central Germany about which few historical records have survived What has come from that time and era are tales of magic and fairy tales perfect material upon which the base this book. Legends broken bow ne The author takes time to poke fun at writers of written history The following quotation is from a character in the book who is explaining why oral history is so much accurate than written history What else should a true historian do.
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Caleb Carr is an American novelist and military historian The son of Lucien Carr a former UPI editor and a key Beat generation figure he was born in Manhattan and lived for much of his life on the Lower East Side He attended Kenyon College and New York University earning a B. Broken ghost apex legends 5 stars It was a great universe that Carr created and a fairy interesting story but I found the storytelling to be disappointing Told in second person present tense by an undefined mystic I think with a secondary and ultimately non additive character who apparently found the memoir that is the text The storyteller storytelling became a significant element of the reading experience which I found over time to be cumbersome and unnecessarily tiring Copious notes at the back provided scholarly commentary on the text but while at times it was interesting it felt like the author was showing off Or maybe there was so much that he wanted to say but couldn t fit it into the confines of the story which is by the way why we have editors to protect the author and the reader from himself to try to ensure that only the best story gets told in the best way even if that means trimming away lots of decorative dead wood All that aside the references people make to George RR Martin s Song of Fire and Ice series another author series in need of a good editor and deadwood trimming are due to the epic nature of the story the multiple interweaving characters and story lines though while Martin has many independent arcs running longitudinally we know Carr s characters will ultimately all arrive together somewhere and we are unsurprised when they do. The legend of broken sword In the end it was an OK read but I don t see myself trying Carr again for awhile Science Fiction Fantasy Nonfiction Mystery Thrillers I m a horrible person See my friend goes to his school s library and searches though the new book section and pick this up for me. Broken ghost apex legends And I can t reach page 100 Carr s writing in terms of style is great I still want to read the Alienist but this I mean honestly why not simply write a ADD manuel and be done The conceit wears thing because 1 he goes overboard and 2 other authors have done it better think Mary Gentle and A Secret History Science Fiction Fantasy Nonfiction Mystery Thrillers I have greatly enjoyed this book even in all of its complexity The place of this legend in history is readily captured It is a study of the evolution of a particular culture individuals social structure economics philosophy and religion all are embedded in a compelling story. League of legends broken There is nothing new under the sun to borrow a phrase In addition no culture is free from the influence of other cultures There is human response and reaction that are the building blocks of an evolutionary process Moreover it is a study of the place of war as a part of human and cultural process It will provide you with some food for thought grounded in history Science Fiction Fantasy Nonfiction Mystery Thrillers I really wanted to like this book I enjoy Caleb Carr as a novelist and I respect him as an historian I thought he might be hitting his sweet spot with epic fantasy he gets to use his tremendous historical knowledge and apply it in a world of his own making right But man this book is awful His editor should be fired for letting something like this go to print The diction is phony the characterization is cliche to the point of absurdity the plot is ridiculously predictable I forced myself to read the first hundred pages because I paid money for this thing but I ll only finish it if every other book on earth disappears And the internet And magazines And cereal boxes Science Fiction Fantasy Nonfiction Mystery Thrillers I am clearly not afraid of a thousand page plus end note tome But We are lucky enough to live in a time where being fans of genre fiction does not relegate us to stories about morally simple characters doing implausibly convenient slash lucky things to win the day And while the premise of this book is killer that makes the follow through that much disappointing I LOVED that my ebook had hypertext links to the end notes is someone working at similarly integrating maps and other appendices That being said the level of detail and research the linguistic stuff is really fun was poorly served by black and white characters and deus ex machina type plot twists conveniently the only person in medieval Europe to know about all of this technology is right here living in the woods It wasn t compelling enough to even consider the second novel For the number of pages and the amount that actually happened we deserved at least twice as much story Science Fiction Fantasy Nonfiction Mystery Thrillers One of the weirdest books I ve ever read Not because of the story a straightforward medieval clash between hobbits and a citadel with a wizard saving the day hmmm. Legend of the seeker broken but the tension between what the author was most interested in and what the reader is most interested in To be fair yup I m Clever And poor reader of this review you may be asking why it is a four star book in my opinion Because he left that crap in the endnotes Thank God The stuff before the endnotes is about the best written fantasy you could hope for Yes it gets a little long in the tooth and the military focus is a bit well military but the characters plot and reveals are pretty dang good It took me than two weeks to read it with the flu intervening but I was only complaining about the endnotes of which I masochistically read every single one of Endnotes Car wreck stare impossible not to The rest of the book cliffhanger stare what the heck is happening next Science Fiction Fantasy Nonfiction Mystery Thrillers This book is a pretty good fantasy novel populated with characters typically found in fantasy lit melancholic warriors small forest people cave dwelling mystics an occasional enchanted animal or bird It s a shame that the author decided to weigh it down with make believe documentation from one of our major universities where the Broken Manuscript i. Legend of the seeker broken e this book was found BOGUS I m convinced there is no manuscript I guess there are no rules for fantasy so pretending it s all based on a found manuscript is part of the fantasy. The legend of broken sword This is a big story that requires a big book 737 pages Incredibly 77 pages are dedicated to meticulous notes that elaborate explain and expand on terms and expressions contained in the main text Many of these notes refer to Gibbon s Edward Gibbon author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire manuscript which again I am convinced is a completely fictitious source But the contents of the notes themselves are mostly factual as best I can tell This conflation of fact and fiction is disorienting to a skeptical reader such as me I know I would be a happier person if I could simply get lost in the fantasy and believe everything in this book As a whole I don t believe this book contains sufficient historical material to qualify it as historical fiction However my lord Were history to be recorded in books why How should we know who put it there Or where it originated and what part is fact what legend and what mere myth Only spoken knowledge handed down through the generation from wise man to pupil over and over can offer us such integrity should any of our number speak lies his fellows will likely catch him at it whereas the lies of a man who writes books will long outlive him with no one left to tell of his deceptions Ah so true Calab Carr being the prime example There are plenty of moral political and economic lessons contained in the book that are thinly veiled warnings to our modern times One example is social unrest caused by rich people buying food from distant lands at cheap prices instead of locally grown food Another example is a banished wizard who ends up using his knowledge of science to develop weapons of war to defeat those who banished him In general religion is made to look foolish and those respectful of science and hard work prevail Science Fiction Fantasy Nonfiction Mystery Thrillers A military historian at his finest Because war is not a thing separate from the mind like the hammer or the blade It is an expression of the mind one used to achieve a certain object yes but one that bespeaks the nature of the collective mind of that people part three chapter 7 p 523 hardcover The first two words that came to mind after finishing this novel were magnum opus. Broken ghost apex legends Our anonymous narrator plunks us down in Germany between the fifth and eighth centuries amidst a conflict between the small statured Bane and the Tall as they are known by the Bane of Broken at the base of a mountain by the same name Both races are afflicted by plague and disease that both believes the other started purposefully A battle between both races therefore ensues the Broken army lead by a brooding but no less experienced military leader Sixt Arnem a bad ass name by the way meets with the Bane under the guidance of a legless sorcerer by the name of Caliphestros another bad ass name and lead in some small part by three foragers Veloc a Bane historian his intrepid tracker sister Keera and their childhood friend and smelly comic relief Heldo Bah What happens after the two meet under the canopy of Davon Wood is in a word awesome For those who could not read past page 100 you ve done yourself a disservice Even if the sentences at times are arduous and verbose there is a story in there I personally enjoyed the vast sweeping prose but at the same time I disliked the fact so much could be left out story wise But ah That s where the endnotes come in handy Admittedly my copy is flagged with Post It notes and colorful little labels so that I might go back and figure out what the hell that certain phrase or word meant Good thing I did despite Mr Carr s suggestion of not reading the endnotes unless one really wanted to Well sir I really wanted to and I m glad I did I did greatly enjoy this tale and appreciated the research involved and certainly the time thirty years my goodness in crafting such an epic tome Science Fiction Fantasy Nonfiction Mystery Thrillers Little history exists about Northern Germany in the period from 500 800 AD so Caleb Carr writes a novel about a fortress city named Broken run by a religious sect and the merchants Less than desirable people are banished to the forest When both are threatened by a virulent disease military leaders have to ignore orders and work together to save both people The writing is ponderous in old English making reading the book a chore but there are some excellent characters with strong moral compasses from Keera the tracker to Sixt Arnem the rising military leader to the fearsome panther of the Davon Wood Science Fiction Fantasy Nonfiction Mystery Thrillers I very much enjoyed Carr s earlier works and was eagerly looking forward to reading his latest book The Legend of Broken as well As a medievalist from many years ago I was immediately drawn to the first several chapters of the book and dove in head first But unfortunately it wasn t long before my head struck the bottom of the pool about 1 3 of the way through. Brokenness in the world The dust cover does a great job of explaining what the book is about so I ll not bother with a synopsis only stating that this book is completely unlike any of his prior works This book is over 1000 pages long and of that roughly 300 pages are footnotes At first I did not mind turning the pages to the back of the book to better understand every subtlety Carr crafted into his work But it became tiresome to be blunt I have to applaud the author on his attention to background research and the pure diligence of the work He has successfully created a fictional kingdom in the middle of our own historical timeline which fits seamlessly every detail is meticulously created so as to be completely reasonable from the archaic roots of High German surnames to the explicit descriptions of certain mystic rites I was amazed by his attention to detail across the board But therein lies the problem. Brokenness in the world At some point the book is no longer about character plot twists reveals or revelations It starts to read like some archaic travelogue written by Marco Polo or the mythic Prester John In short it stopped being a novel and became an artificial pseudo historical treatise But it stopped being interesting shortly thereafter As a reader I want a reward or payoff of some kind when I invest my time in a book I never got that sense of accomplishment while reading it Not a WOW at the end as much as a sigh of relief. The legend of broken sword I could not help but get the feeling that the author was so concerned with maintaining the illusion of faux historical accuracy paradoxical I know but true regardless and writing in a particular style that the story was drowned by the attention to detail. Legends broken bow ne I suspect the author spent a considerable amount of time researching the details of this book and it certainly showed I just wish he d spent an equal effort at making the story and characters as compelling as the background and premise of the setting Science Fiction Fantasy Nonfiction Mystery Thrillers 
A sprawling fantasy saga Caleb Carr boldly goes where he s never gone before USA Today Legend meets history in this mesmerizing novel from 1 New York Times bestselling author Caleb Carr Demonstrating the rich storytelling skillful plotting and depth of research he showcased in The Alienist Carr has written a wildly imaginative genre bending saga that redefines the boundaries of literature Some years ago a remarkable manuscript long rud to exist was The Legend of Broken It tells of a prosperous fortress city where order reigns at the point of a sword even as scheming factions secretly vie for control of the surrounding kingdom Meanwhile outside the city s granite walls an industrious tribe of exiles known as the Bane forages for sustenance in the wilds of Davon Wood At every turn the lives of Broken s defenders and its would be destroyers Sixt Arnem the widely respected and honorable head of the kingdom s powerful army grapples with his conscience and newfound responsibilities amid rumors of impending war Lord Baster kin master of the Merchants Council struggles to maintain the magnificence of his kingdom even as he pursues vainglorious dreams of power And Keera a gifted female tracker of the Bane tribe embarks on a perilous journey to save her people enlisting the aid of the notorious and brilliant philosopher Caliphestros Together they hope to exact a ruinous revenge on Broken ushering in a day of reckoning when the mighty walls will be breached forever in a triumph of science over superstition Breathtakingly profound and compulsively readable Caleb Carr s long awaited new book is an action packed multicharacter epic of a medieval clash of cultures in which new gods collide with old science defies all expectation and virtue comes in many guises Brimming with adventure and narrative invention The Legend of Broken is an exhilarating and enthralling masterwork Praise for The Legend of Broken An excellent and old fashioned entertainment The Legend of Broken seamlessly blends epic adventure with serious research and asks questions that men and women grappled with in the Dark Ages and still do today The Washington Post A colossal effort a fantasy epic meant as an allegory a cautionary tale for our precarious times To make his points Carr has summoned a dream team of soldiers wizards and tiny forest folk The New York Times Book Review Carr keeps the action hurtling along with a steady diet of gruesome murders and political betrayals And he clearly wants modern readers to see something of their own world in the political corruption and greed that ultimately doom Broken The Boston Globe The Legend of Broken.