Sanders Anne Laubenthal (1943–2002)
Autor/a de Excalibur
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Sanders Anne Laubenthal
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1943-12-25
- Data de defunció
- 2002-05-15
- Gènere
- female
- Lloc de naixement
- Mobile, Alabama, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Educació
- Spring Hill College (1965)
University of Alabama (MA|English|1967)
University of Alabama (PhD|English|1970) - Professions
- poet
historian
professor - Organitzacions
- United States Air Force (1974-1993)
Troy State University
Resource Consultants International, Inc.
Mid-East Region of Clan Donald USA, Inc.
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 2
- Membres
- 190
- Popularitat
- #114,774
- Valoració
- 3.4
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 3
The main characters, Rhodri and Linette, excavate an ancient ruin under Linette's family's ancestral home of Silverthorne. While excavating, they begin to be assaulted by the witch Morgaine through Morgan, a visiting scholar staying at Silverthorne. While Rhodri and Linette are looking for Excalibur through both reality and... not reality, a parallel quest is going on for the Holy Grail via one of Linette's childhood friends.
Lots of interesting devices are used - Linette is a "conduit" for Morgaine, who doesn't want Excalibur and the Grail discovered, so she frequently takes possession of Linette's body. To counter this, someone else far away takes on the burden of getting possessed by Morgaine. Meanwhile, Morgan stokes the fires of Morgaine's power from yet another location.
The Grail Quest was the best part of this story. The character wanders dreamlike through both real and fantasy landscapes around Mobile. What start off as reality-based trials (saving a woman from rape) become more and more like the somewhat nonsensical tasks of legend. To protect him, yet another character begins to take on the madness of the evil forces pursuing him, so we have two very different perspectives towards the end of the quest.
But the characters didn't feel very accessible, and it was difficult to root for them. Descriptions are slow, ponderous, and frequent. It adds to the dreamlike atmosphere, but it was difficult for me to convince myself to read and finish this relatively short book knowing I'd have remote characters and copious descriptions of ethereal places to look forward to.
It is a good book, and there are definitely reasons to recommend it, but it wasn't for me.… (més)