Monday, October 16, 2006
Bridge of Birds - review
Here's a book review of "Bridge of Birds". It's a book I read a month or two ago, but never got around to writing a review here.
Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart. 7/10. Winner of the 1985 World Fantasy Award. This was almost more of a historical fiction book (set in ancient China) than a fantasy book. However, it did include magical elements in the plot, and interactions with minor gods & goddesses which is I guess another fantastical element. Certainly not the typical fantasy. The book was about Master Li and his helper and the story's narrator, "Number Ten Ox". Number Ten Ox recruts Master Li to help cure his village of a dreadful malady, and they undertake various quests to find various parts of the cure. The nice thing about the book was that it didn't take itself too seriously. There were many cute parts, and although the similarities in some of the quests got kind of repitious at times, it was entertaining.
Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart. 7/10. Winner of the 1985 World Fantasy Award. This was almost more of a historical fiction book (set in ancient China) than a fantasy book. However, it did include magical elements in the plot, and interactions with minor gods & goddesses which is I guess another fantastical element. Certainly not the typical fantasy. The book was about Master Li and his helper and the story's narrator, "Number Ten Ox". Number Ten Ox recruts Master Li to help cure his village of a dreadful malady, and they undertake various quests to find various parts of the cure. The nice thing about the book was that it didn't take itself too seriously. There were many cute parts, and although the similarities in some of the quests got kind of repitious at times, it was entertaining.
# posted by John Colton @ 8:46 PM 
