The beautiful illustrations deserved a better story.
The Charcoal Burner
The beautiful illustrations deserved a better story.
Poorly organised and, for that reason, disappointing but a pleasant read.
It would help if Odin didn't look like an ageing, overweight biker. At least his appearance in this volume was mercifully brief.
Remarkably flat story-telling.
Two comments:1. Someone forgot to remove the cotton rolls after Thor's last dental appointment.2. "Come. Dawn breaks and the night ends. I need warming, woman."
Jerry was a pain in the butt.
Jerry was a pain in the butt.
Not great but not bad.
Unbelievably splendiferous.
It would be unfair to give this book no stars, even if it were possible, for the appalling 19th century racial theory ("It is agreed, then, that the enlightened nations of the world belong to one race. This is the race of white men") or for the theory that 'the black races', who 'have made us a great deal of trouble' anthropologically speaking, descend from people who lived prior to Adam, whereas everyone else, including 'dusky Mongoloids' and 'dusky Dravida', descend from Adam. It would be unfair because it afforded me a great deal of amusement, not least because I added it to my Kindle by mistake. But seriously:"...my training has been such that logic and facts still command a degree of respect. Nor am I enough of an actor to play the part of an idiot. If I can avoid a difficulty I shall not dash out my brains against it.""I dissent emphatically, however, from the position entertained by some recent archaeologists, that the Stone Folk of Europe carry us back fifty or a hundred thousand years, or even that their antiquity is greater than that of the oldest historic nations. The opinion seems to me wild and fanatical."Perhaps not quite 50,000 years but... *snickers*
It would be unfair to give this book no stars, even if it were possible, for the appalling 19th century racial theory ("It is agreed, then, that the enlightened nations of the world belong to one race. This is the race of white men") or for the theory that 'the black races', who 'have made us a great deal of trouble' anthropologically speaking, descend from people who lived prior to Adam, whereas everyone else, including 'dusky Mongoloids' and 'dusky Dravida', descend from Adam. It would be unfair because it afforded me a great deal of amusement, not least because I added it to my Kindle by mistake. But seriously:"...my training has been such that logic and facts still command a degree of respect. Nor am I enough of an actor to play the part of an idiot. If I can avoid a difficulty I shall not dash out my brains against it.""I dissent emphatically, however, from the position entertained by some recent archaeologists, that the Stone Folk of Europe carry us back fifty or a hundred thousand years, or even that their antiquity is greater than that of the oldest historic nations. The opinion seems to me wild and fanatical."Perhaps not quite 50,000 years but... *snickers*
Exceptional illustrations.
The moral of the story is: never try to write your own fairy tales.
One or two decent chapters, otherwise an ill-digested mass hiding behind a provocative title.
2 stars don't do justice to how dismal this was, but since I picked up a few titbits of information I'll be generous. Besides, 'did not like it' doesn't cover 'was cross-eyed with boredom and fatigue and if it hadn't been mercifully short I'd have tossed it in the virtual bin and what was Charles Oman thinking when he praised what was scarcely better than a breathless fact-filled undergraduate essay c. 1911?'
2 stars don't do justice to how dismal this was, but since I picked up a few titbits of information I'll be generous. Besides, 'did not like it' doesn't cover 'was cross-eyed with boredom and fatigue and if it hadn't been mercifully short I'd have tossed it in the virtual bin and what was Charles Oman thinking when he praised what was scarcely better than a breathless fact-filled undergraduate essay c. 1911?'
