The Ragthorn By Robert Holdstock
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I knew I d read The Ragthorn the story by the late Robert Holdstock as soon as I saw the title of this ebook and am very pleased to be able to add it to my digital shelf A re reading merely enhanced my memory of it the tone very much of the period in which it s set It s a mythic fantasy where the reader needs to work a little knitting in what is merely glanced to build a whole rather than having every last detail explained in simplistic linear fashion The two other stories complement it well English I wish I could give this than 5 stars utterly wonderful and perfect This is my second read and I anticipate it won t be the last English I was referred to The Ragthorn by the interactive fiction game Christminster and it s an interesting and suspense filled horror tale that is certainly worthy of the World Fantasy Award It does the whole unearthing ancient secrets and alchemy thing very well Such a thing can only work as a short story novella as it does here and is the perfect length The two other stories are interesting as well and in the same vein I might have to check out Holdstock s Mythago Wood as I ve come across that before and I enjoyed this English WonderfulI so love Holdstock s style and feel and The Ragthorn hasn t disappointed in the slightest Short but what a unique and intriguing vision that I thoroughly loved English One novella and two short stories The Ragthorn the novella is good well worth its four stars for atmosphere alone even if the ending doesn t quite stick One of the short stories The Fabulous Beast by Garry Kilworth is similarly enjoyable The second short story The Charisma Trees did nothing for me but did no great damage either English Great novella in the Lovecraft tradition English The ebook I have contains three stories The Ragthorn Holdstock Kilworth a great story about immortality and secret knowledge Reminiscent of Poe and Lovecraft don t worry the writing style is modern and easy to read The best of the three highly recommended The Fabulous Beast Kilworth shares the style the fascination for marvels lost in time and one of the characters with The Ragthorn the shock ending felt strangely logical in retrospect if you can admit not many people embrace chance easily Loved it The Charisma Trees Holdstock is a lovely mess of a story mixing sentient trees time travel social commentary and interspecies genetic manipulation I felt like the author didn t know where he wanted to take it and ended up just cutting it short despite the text having way too many extra pages Decent effort but it left me cold. The Ragthorn kindle app 20 pages The novella The Ragthorn is a compelling read and a brilliant collaboration between Holdstock and Kilworth At times it reminded me of Holdstock s Mythago Wood The first short story Kilworth s The Fabulous Beast is as intriguing and Poe esque as The Ragthorn and sits comfortably next to the novella thanks to the use of some shared characters The second short story Holdstock s The Charisma Trees is clever and fun but not in the same league as the novella and first short story English This is a bittersweet Novella three stories really to have finished With Rob Holdstock s untimely passing these are almost certainly the last stories I will ever read by him and this makes me very sad Many writers are entertaining some are both entertaining and just really good and a select few reach above all that to create work that is not just entertaining or thought provoking but legitimately haunting Writers whose worlds you feel like you ve actually lived in for a time after you finish their book Holdstock was definitely one of these latter writers and The Ragthorn doesn t disappoint For the uninitiated I would suggest reading Mythago Wood and some of his other work first but this is a fine last story for Holdstock and I will treasure this final volume like a dragon treasures its horde of gold I wonder what tales Holdstock is weaving now deep in his faraway Mythago wood English This book is fiction that reads like non fiction on the verge of a miraculous discovery This discovery is different in each of the 3 stories yet each time it will change everything that we know and believe I read it in one sitting because I couldn t put the book down After finishing it I wanted it all to be true How different our world would be English Robert Paul Holdstock was an English novelist and author who is best known for his works of fantasy literature predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction. The Ragthorn bookworm Holdstocks writing was first published in 1968 His science fiction and fantasy works explore philosophical psychological anthropological spiritual and woodland themes He has received three BSFA awards and won the World Fantasy Award in the category of Best Novel in 1985. The Ragthorn bookworm Pseudonyms are site_link Chris Carlsen site_link Robert FaulconRobert Black site_link Steven Eisler and site_link Richard Kirk Robert Paul Holdstock was an English novelist and author who is best known for his works of fantasy literature predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction. The Ragthorn pdf drive Holdstock s writing was first published in 1968 His science fiction and fantasy works explore philosophical psychological anthropological spiritual and woodland themes He has received three BSFA awards and won the World Fantasy Award in the category of Best Novel in 1985. The Ragthorn book Pseudonyms are site_link Chris Carlsen site_link Robert FaulconRobert Black site_link Steven Eisler and site_link Richard Kirk site_link Winner of the World Fantasy Award I am placing this entry at the beginning of my edited journal for reasons that will become apparent Time is very short for me now the final part of the ritual draws near I cannot pretend that I am not frightened There were these two British writers one lived in the country the other in the city The country writer loved to visit the city and partake of brandy and Greek kebabs in the local hostelry The city writer liked to visit the country and guzzle ale and barbecued steak under the apple trees The two writers needed an excuse for these indulgences and so they invented one and this excuse was called collaborating on a story It soon emerged that the story was to be about a legendary tree which they both vaguely recalled from the tales their grandfathers used to tell them of mystery and myth Soon they were delving with suppressed excitement into old documents at the British Museum and began to come up with some frightening discoveries The first of these finds was in studying the original text in Anglo Saxon of the Old English poem The Dream of the Rood The marrying of the tree crucifixion cross and the thorn a runic character was too elaborately regular to be an accident of metre or alliterative language Other discoveries followed and the story gradually surfaced like a dark secret from its burial mound The Ragthorn a dark and unsettling World Fantasy Award winning novella by Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth Also included in this volume two bonus stories The Fabulous Beast by Garry Kilworth and The Charisma Trees by Robert Holdstock Robert Holdstock Britain s best fantasist these are the visions of a real artist The Times Our finest living mythmaker His narratives intense exuberant earthy passionate dense with metaphor are new trails through the ancient forest of our imaginations An essential writer Stephen Baxter No other author has so successfully captured the magic of the wildwood Michael Moorcock A new expression of the British genius for true fantasy Alan Garner on Mythago Wood Garry Kilworth Garry Kilworth is arguably the finest writer of short fiction today in any genre New Scientist Kilworth is one of the most significant writers in the English language Fear Magazine Probably one of the finest writers of short stories Britain has ever produced Bookstove Online Kilworth is a master of his trade Punch Magazine The Ragthorn
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