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| Original Title: | The Forgotten Beasts of Eld |
| ISBN: | 0152055363 (ISBN13: 9780152055363) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Sybel |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1975), World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1975), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee (1975) |
Patricia A. McKillip
Paperback | Pages: 343 pages Rating: 4.09 | 13080 Users | 883 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Forgotten Beasts of Eld |
| Author | : | Patricia A. McKillip |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 343 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2006 by HMH Books for Young Readers (first published August 1974) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Dragons. Romance. High Fantasy. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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how to express how much I love Patricia McKillip and her books, how much her stories move me, how they slowly and invisibly transform from enthralling fairy tale to a genuinely emotional experience? how to describe the prose: so refined and elegant, so expressive, so light and delicate, so deep and beautiful, and yet often so simple? just so: her arrangements are perfect, my own kind of perfect. how to describe all of that, to make into something as plodding as a book review? love is a subjective experience and so resists codification. it would be easier to describe why I liked that walk in a forest, that beam of sunlight hitting the leaves in just that way; or how I like to watch the fog roll in past that great hill, making of the world a dreamscape. words seems so small for such a task, and yet words are the very tools she uses.the tale is about a magical woman in a forest. she is a cold woman and her forest is surrounded by an angry world. she surrounds herself in turn, with what she loves, the only things she truly understands: her beasts - her friends. the story is about being loved and falling in love; it is about making bad decisions and letting terrible things turn you into something terrible. it is about being understood and not being understood, why understanding is not always necessary, why it can be hardest to understand yourself. it is about letting go; it is about letting other people be a part of you. it is a fable, and so much more.
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Ratings: 4.09 From 13080 Users | 883 ReviewsCriticize Containing Books The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
how to express how much I love Patricia McKillip and her books, how much her stories move me, how they slowly and invisibly transform from enthralling fairy tale to a genuinely emotional experience? how to describe the prose: so refined and elegant, so expressive, so light and delicate, so deep and beautiful, and yet often so simple? just so: her arrangements are perfect, my own kind of perfect. how to describe all of that, to make into something as plodding as a book review? love is aThe Forgotten Beasts of Eld is one of the great classics of fantasy, though rarely shows up on lists of important books , perhaps because it is the story of a powerful woman learning to be human.Sybel is an extremely powerful mage, and has been raised on one side of a clear dichotomy between power/knowledge and love/hate/humanity. She is the first daughter in a line of mages who have devoted themselves to knowledge, who studied and gained the true names of the world's greatest creatures, and
Patricia A. Mckillip is one of my favourite fantasy writers. At the risk of sounding politically incorrect in a PC world, I find her voice uniquely feminine. Her prose is both rhythmical and intoxicating. In this novel of isolation and seclusion, Sybil is brought up by her father on Eld mountain. Her sole companions are animals, which her father calls to the area. When Sybil's father passes away, isolated Sybil - still with only her beasts for company- studies magic to evolve into a powerful
Rating: 3.5* of fiveI read this book in 1975. It was impressive to my teenaged self, but was the beginning of the end for me and fantasy as a primary reading genre. Beautifully written, richly textured, full of those lovely small moments that demonstrate deft and economical world-building. Also larded through with moments of profound insight for my inexperienced self:What do you think love isa thing to startle from the heart like a bird at every shout or blow? You can fly from me, high as you
5 stars--it was amazing.A story about this book: I first read it when I was 11 or 12. My local library at the time didn't have a YA section (in fact, I'm not sure the concept of YA fiction existed at the time, though that would change soon--by the time I was in high school, the library had a separate section for teens). The library's juvenile book section was arranged with picture books on one side of the room, middle-reader chapter books in the middle of the room, and one free-standing shelf of
Somehow I have managed to live my life without reading this masterpiece of high fantasy. Somehow....Now that I have I wish I can time travel to 5 days ago when I haven't read it and read it again for the first time.Isn't that always the wish when we read a book that moves us?"I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness."The prose was simple, yet so amazingly lyrical. The language used was evocative, emotional.
how to express how much I love Patricia McKillip and her books, how much her stories move me, how they slowly and invisibly transform from enthralling fairy tale to a genuinely emotional experience? how to describe the prose: so refined and elegant, so expressive, so light and delicate, so deep and beautiful, and yet often so simple? just so: her arrangements are perfect, my own kind of perfect. how to describe all of that, to make into something as plodding as a book review? love is a
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