Robert Holdstock
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.81 | 8243 Users | 688 Reviews
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| Title | : | Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood #1) |
| Author | : | Robert Holdstock |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2003 by Orb Books (first published 1984) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Mythology. Urban Fantasy. Horror |
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The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's entire, and long, life. Now, after his death, his sons have taken up his work. But what they discover is beyond what they could have expected. For the Wood is a realm where myths gain flesh and blood, tapping primal fears and desires subdued through the millennia. A realm where love and beauty haunt your dreams -- and may drive you insane. Mythago Wood won the World Fantasy Award on its first publication in 1984, and secured Robert Holdstock's reputation as one of the major fantasy writers of our time. Now it returns to print in America for the first time in nearly a decade.Declare Books Concering Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood #1)
| Original Title: | Mythago Wood |
| ISBN: | 0765307294 (ISBN13: 9780765307293) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Mythago Wood #1 |
| Characters: | George Huxley |
| Setting: | England |
| Literary Awards: | World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (1985), British Science Fiction Association Award for Novel (1984) |
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Uh, this one is tricky. Can I just say that two super-English brothers got so high in the house on the Prairies that a nearby forest suddenly turned into a Wonderland? For me Mythago Wood has the vibe of Out of the Silent Planet, The Little Stranger and Roadside Picnic. Somehow I can't call "fantasy". For me it's more of a magical realism. And while author twists the real and the unreal into a nice and flowing tale, sometimes it's hard to really get into the story, because the myths used in theEnraging misogynist heaving bullshit. Won the World Fantasy Award in the 1980s. Why am I not surprised. The premise of this book is that archetype creatures, mythagos, arise in the wood plucked from human minds. You will be staggered to learn that all of the humans in question are men, and all but two of the mythagos are...men. Women are almost completely absent from what I regret to report is called "the racial unconscious" (why yes, everyone in this book *is* white, since you ask) except for
While the concept is awesome, I find myself agreeing with those who think this book is just so-so. I won't rehash everything in detail, I'll just hit the main objections:*There's nothing likeable about any of the characters, all of whom remain ciphers from beginning to end.*Nobody ever bloody talks to each other in the way that normal folks do when confusion exists, which makes the relationships unbelievable.*The love story isn't even remotely romantic. He loves that she smells bad and hangs out
I accepted the notebook. "My life is full of diaries."Steven Huxley had just been handed the diary of his sidekick companion Harry Keeton. I am personally fond of Harry because our names are one letter away from being the same Keeton/Keeten. I am actually an impostor, my great great grandfather Thomas Newton Keaton changed his name to Keeten when he was conscripted into the Confederate army. Family lore states that he had a dispute with his older brother Major William Henry Harrison Keaton and
This is an acclaimed book. The basic premise is the concept of mythagos, which are images from the Jungian collective unconscious, which take corporeal form inside Ryhope Wood. Those who go after the mythagos into the wood are permanently affected.There is a dreamlike quality to this book which I found endearing at the time of reading - however, much of the story did not stick with me. At the time of reading, I was not much into Joseph Campbell and Jung (that came later), so I was confused with
I would classify this book as high concept fantasy. Certainly, it is not to everyone's taste. I can sympathize with this, as sometimes I feel like I admire this book more than enjoy it. Holdstock works through a lot of interesting ideas. The title Mythago Wood refers to a stand of West Midlands primeval forest that, like the TARDIS, is bigger within than without. The forest has an aura that interacts with the mytho-creative aspects of people's minds to produce mythagos, which are expressions of
Mythago Wood's strength was its intense atmosphere, and the author's use of language to build a forest in the reader's mind. The setting is convincing, though there were distracting missteps and aggravations that had me rolling my eyes. One example should suffice to make my point: One of the characters receives an arrow in the shoulder. A little while later, the first person narrator feels the need to explain that if this character decided to strap on his pack with the strap across that very
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