Originariamente pubblicato su Fantasy Literature.Da appassionata lettrice di fantasy, ero un po' restia a provare questa trilogia perché Stephen R. Lawhead non è tra gli scrittori fantasy più conosciuti. Mio marito mi ha comprato il libro perché Lawhead è cristiano e pensava che mi sarebbe piaciuto.Sono rimasta piacevolmente sorpresa! La scrittura è eccellente. La storia è interessante, significativa e di portata epica, pur progredendo abbastanza rapidamente da concludersi in tre libri.Contiene ...

Questo è il primo libro di una trilogia e, come i libri del Signore degli Anelli di Tolkien (che originariamente non voleva separare in tre volumi – fu un'idea dell'editore), i libri del Canto di Albion formano fondamentalmente un'unità che dovrebbe essere letta e considerata insieme. Da evangelico, Lawhead mostra l'influenza di C. S. Lewis in alcuni punti della sua scrittura; il simbolismo cristiano nell'ultimo volume, Il Nodo Infinito, è particolarmente chiaro. Ma la sua visione fantasy è sua,...

This book read like a cross between historical fiction and fantasy. There is enough Celtic history to make a case for a historical novel, but historical fiction purists would turn their noses up at the fantasy elements. I found the blend fascinating.It read a bit like an author's time travel fantasy into a historical period that the writer loved enough to thoroughly research, yet the Mabinogion brand Celticism incorporated enough of an Otherworld blend to allow the author to merge fantasy withou...

Il primo libro della serie Il Canto di Albion, pubblicato originariamente nel 1991. C'è stato un periodo, tra gli anni Settanta e Ottanta, in cui leggevo solo fantasy, al punto che penso di averne avuto un'overdose. Tra tutti gli autori fantasy che ho letto negli anni, Stephen R. Lawhead non era uno di questi. Quindi, quando questa serie di libri è entrata in mio possesso, mi sono fregato le mani nell'attesa di perdermi ancora una volta nel mondo della finzione. Ma non ci è voluto molto prima c...

Solid 4 stars, great read! Can't wait to pick up the next one!

I really liked the first 150 pages or so and thought the last 300 pages were pretty boring. Basically I didn't like the actual portal fantasy section. I think I would enjoy it if Stephen Lawhead wrote a contemporary novel, like a psychological thriller or literary fiction or something along those lines, but this wasn't for me.

So what is The Paradise War?Epic then, epic now, it is one of the first things I remember my mother reading to me when I was young, allowing me to visualize the might and magic of this well-woven portal into Celtic adventure and Otherwordly feats. Beleaguered by the shift from Oxford academia and the more intellectual-style of prose such dictates, Stephen R. Lawhead's first book in The Song of Albion Trilogy finds its legs firmly rooted in grit and gore and snow and song, reminding me that anyon...

The first in a trilogy, The Paradise War follows the amazing and fantastic adventure of a young college student by the name of Lewis Gillies. When he follows his friend on an sudden and unlikely urge to explore the strange appearance of a long extinct beast in Scotland, he is shocked when his friend disappears inside a cairn and does not return. It is only when he attempts to follow Simon that he understands why.Albion is where he finds himself. It is the Otherworld, and he is thrust into it so ...

Although I truly admire the language and prose Stephen Lawhead uses in his novel, the book totally lacked all elements of a good story. There was no plausible plotline or storyline of events that I could follow. All the events were seamlessly unrelated, random and discordant. There was no greater plot, no quest or manner in which the characters followed. There was no goal, no objective, hardly a conflict or an antagonist to defeat. Lord Nudd who I suppose was supposed to be the "villain" of the ...

Well. I must admit I did return this to the library without finishing it. I kept reading and reading, almost to halfway through it just hoping for something to pick up and excite me. But it didn't... even when I got to the Otherworld. Steven Lawhead just did so much better with Hood. With Hood I was enraptured and in love with all the characters and events and could not read fast enough to get what was coming next. But perhaps it is because Hood was from last year (2006) where The Paradise War i...