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'Pars after t By Brett Bydairfc Gamecock Stall Wrltar When I first saw this book on the si over for several reasons: first, this type of fantasy I prefer (and I'm fa on reading THOSE, thank you); s< this merely another rehashing of tfc (there are, currently available, the o an adaptation into illustrated Star*Reach Publications, as well as s editions of the ancient epic); and fin< looked a little stiff, especially the a was printed. (Yes, I judge a book by habit I'm trying to break). With all this in mind, you will und insides wilted when the editor chuc me and told me to review it in toda put off starting it until the last minut I did. It starts off slowly and takes I get rolling, but once it does, it keeps i before the end, where it slacks off a b Parsival, the son of a king who die was still in utero and Queen Herzelrc for 20 years, leaves home the perf< lives in a dream world, vaguely seel King Arthur to win his knighthood caring how long it takes. He finally a spurs (due to nis incredible strength find the Holy Grail, using the same i At one point he is asked: " 'Where are you bound?' Parsival knit his eyebrows, com 'Should I be going somewhere?' Through a series of adventures, 1 maturity. He enters the grail castle, as to whether he saw the grail itself, ' :'~~y ^ ' ^ ^ t ;7r vV-^"* '"-- "'"V-r' ? 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This doe noving until just which is fragmentary it. reminiscences or mei d while Parsival presented in a jumble yde.who grieved exactly what happens 3ct innocent. He T^e book end with e king the court of hands of John ( I and not really asking Gawain not t rrives, gains his nocence but has rega ) and sets out to The book loses all mo wandering style, chapters missing. 1 nrnmicM a connol nr WIIIIU^U U JL^UVl, will read it, if only to cerned. first book. " Parsival reads wel le starts to gain straight adventure ai but as confused growth of the sou or, indeed, if he (say the last 20 pages f aaaJ Iv^Hh **v --.^^H Br S B JflfyHKf aaag . .SinSH^H EMKjK ly ^^^HH^|v^^HH^^.^1',>v " ern and two robot ft "?""" cup this c ! Saluda at ] in 5 POINTS j l-Ktt 111 with any sandwich pu ii i ning Jg . By the book's mid-point, he jlfiR f jeen Herzelroyde sent a retired it, Broaditch and Waleis, after Hflft \ t him. These two are the classic k?9BL- ^ tch, the fat, strong one with * le skinny, nervous one who's one 'Jj >ad. Along the way, they meet AjB ierer in search of Parsival. IjSjgj, ^jr! l,.,i ~ -i -? icu uiiu many snuri cnapicrs, Parsival's rambles and those of . e captured and forced to slave y under the command of Clin/izard who is also looking for the t it will give him great power. writing is crisp and clear j id at times approaches poetry in H s not help the ending, though, niHR^ ' in nature. All events are told as nories of the characters and are t >, so the reader is not really sure f i middle-aged Parsival bound at ^ )f Bligh, another grail-seeker, J n kill him has lr?ct hie in lined a measure of his dreams. mentum, as if there are several ^ 'he author's note at the end f obably entitled The Grail War. I i find out what's going on in the ^ 11 all the way through, both as id as metaphysical allegory on Rif*t I, and if you like to skip endings or so) this is the book for you. 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