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Title: A Plague of Angels by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0-553-56873-6 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (21 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: most magical sci-fi I have ever read.
Comment: This book is the most successful combination of sci-fi and fatasy elements that I have ever read. Agian Tepper manages to weave a mystical tale that is thought provoking, as well as entertaining. The tale goes from mid-evil archtype towns right out of Rodgers and Hammerstien, to futuristic suburbs with shocking proficiency. While not quite as good as some of her other books, it would be better if the world were either a little more realistic or a little more aligorical, "plague of angles" holds its own with any of the abstract sci-fi out there. What makes Tepper so good is her ability to write books with several levels of meaning without falling into vague or inaccessable metaphors.
Rating: 3
Summary: Starts out clunky but picks up as it goes along
Comment: I read a couple of her other books, "Grass" and "Beauty," and enjoyed them VERY much. This one wasn't as good, but still ok.
The beginning was tedious for me. I don't like reading about gang members who live in putrescent urban conditions and speak like retards. I also don't like futuristic novels where everything has gone wrong and gloomy. Moreover, the character development was not too good, at least at the start.
Fortunately, the whole book was not like that. While things started out being fairly confusing, they started hanging together better as I went along. I kind of had to force myself to stick with it, mostly because I liked her other books, but I was glad by the time I finished. The ending, which I won't reveal, was extremely creative and transformative.
Rating: 4
Summary: Strange Tepper
Comment: This is probably the strangest Sheri S Tepper book I have encountered so far. If you've not read one of Tepper's books before, this would not be the best one to start with. Her talents are best showcased in Beauty and The Family Tree.
If you have read and liked other Tepper novels, then you'll enjoy this. On the surface it's very much to the Tepper formula - a strange and disturbing future resulting from modern society's monumental mistakes. But it's just a bit odd. The characterisations are deliberately starker and the plot takes a while to get going. 4 stars because I like it, but wouldn't necessarily recommend it to everyone.
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Title: Six Moon Dance by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0380791986 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Family Tree by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0380791978 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Beauty by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0553295276 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0553573985 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Singer from the Sea by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0380791994 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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