The Far Kingdoms The Far Kingdoms Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) John Hough Allan Cole Chris Bunch Books in Motion Books
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The Far Kingdoms...a place of bright sunlight surrounded by dark, deadly wilderness. A place where the princes and magicians were kind and wise beyond all imagination. A place where wine and song were always sweet, every purse was fat with gold, and every heart at ease. The Far Kingdoms... said to lie in the distant east, across the straits of the Narrow Sea, beyond the benighted Pepper Coast, in uncharted territory. The Far Kingdoms... a place no one could reach even if it were real - which surely it wasn't.
Young, pampered Amalric Antero cared only for real places and possible dreams. The time had come to Find His Tradewind, to make the traditional journey seeking out new lands, new riches, new customers as his merchant father, and his father's father, had done before him. He meant only to do as all young traders did travel to the known lands in the west and return home having proved himself able to deal well with his father's customers. Nothing more was expected. But then he met Janos Greycloak, a dashing soldier who dabbled in forbidden magic and who carried on him proof of riches and mysteries beyond imagination. And suddenly Amalric found himself setting out on the adventure of a lifetime, a daring and perilous quest through unknown lands peopled by nightmares, to seek the ultimate in fables... The Far Kingdoms!
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The Far Kingdoms The Far Kingdoms Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) John Hough Allan Cole Chris Bunch Books in Motion Books Reviews
I really enjoyed this book - when I got to the middle I started taking more breaks so that it wouldn't be over so quickly. I am an avid reader of fantasy and this was well-written and insightful.
My mother offered to me this book and my first impression when I read the back cover was not so good. Then I started reading it and it just grabbed me. It is a really interesting story. People who like fictional tales would enjoy this one. I practically fell in love with some of the characters especially Amalric. If you start reading it you cant stop till you reach the very end. Then you hate the writer for not making it a little bit longer. Well there is a siquel the story of Amalric`s sister but I havent read that one because when I finished the book I could not look at another one.. I couldn`t start a different story it felt as if I would be starting a new relationship all over again.
In my opinion you should defently read this one..it will take you far far away..
I was an avid fantasy reader, focusing mostly on Dragonlance, when I recieved this book as a gift.
I put off reading it for a long time, and that was a mistake. This is one of the better Fantasy books I've ever read, and in fact I've read it 3 times.
I really can't explain the negative comments read here. This book was great. The culture, the characters, the world had enough depth to launch dozens of books. The characters are really the best part, they're very realistic and they're very multi-dimensional. Not a soul remains unchanged throughout the book.
On my list of Fantasy books I rank this up at the top along with Tolkein, Dave Duncan's Seventh Sword Trilogy, and Weis & Hickman's Dragonlance books.
"The Far Kingdoms" is one of the most pretentious fantasy novels that I've ever read, by which I mean that the authors apparently think that they've written something that's deep and meaningful and will have a big effect on the lives of their readers. In reality, this novel is completely forgettable. The plot deals with Amalric Antero, a spoiled rich kid who becomes a spoiled rich adult and joins with a soldier, Janos Greycloak, in several voyages. They hope to find the legendary Far Kingdoms, a land of wealth and happiness that supposedly lies a long distance to the East. Antero is one of the least likeable characters that I've ever seen in a fantasy novel. His men die, and he has no emotional reaction at all. His wife and child die, and he only mourns for a couple hours before taking off on another trip. He seems to drift through the book without caring about what he's doing or what happens to other people. In the end, I found that I didn't care whether or not Antero and Janos ever reached The Far Kingdoms.
In addition, it seems that not much thought was put into the plotting and writing of this novel. The pace is very uneven. Sometimes the authors dwell for pages on minute details, while other times they skip over months of action in just a few sentences. The first fifty pages are totally irrelevant to the rest of the book; I think that they were written just to include some rather insipid sexual content. After that, the plot falls into and endlessly repeating pattern. The main characters travel somewhere, get into a desperate situation, get rescued miraculously, travel somewhere else, get into another desperate situation, get rescued again, etc... Many of the scenes border on the absurd, such as an encounter with apparently intelligent tigers and monkeys in the middle of the desert, and by the time that a thirty-foot-long ghost ferret showed up to eat the bad guys, I was ready to throw this book into the garbage can. In short, don't waste your time with this pile of nonsense. If you want a short fantasy novel that's both creative and well-written, try "The High House", by James Stoddard.
Withing the first chapter or two the lurid sexual references kept me from reading any farther. I was truly disgusted. This is truly a male adventure only. I want to burn it so no one else will be drug down with its pages.
After you have then gotten to about Chapter ten Goe back and read the first four chapters again or for the first time. Chris Told me this a long long time ago in a land far far away. Actually it was on a rented Cigarette boat. Just outside of West Palm Beach. I was staying at the Holiday Inn at WPB and we had gone out that day to play flying flish with da booat. Yes it was the same one they used for the opening scenes for Miami Vice. Does anyone know what it takes for Cojones to go 100+++ MPH on da waawaa? He we got to be in the opening scenes of the TV Show. They were getting ready to take some shots for the show and we were out on the ocean there going hell bent for election. That was before Bush.
Any way back to this book they had written it and he said that the first 4 chapters only made sense after you had read to chapter ten I just for got again.
O well Das is like just like the Divorce in the Second Book that got written in the third book of the DragonMaster Series.
Dray
I read this in paperback over a decade ago, and love it! A simply written story that takes you all over, I definately suggest this book.
Classic fantasy type and we'll written. A surprise at every turn and unexpected. I give five stars for the book
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