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Bezig met laden... The White Stag (Newbery Library, Puffin) (origineel 1937; editie 1979)door Kate Seredy (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Kate Seredy provides us with a more romanticized view of Hun ascendancy under Attila in the form of local Hungarian lore which typecasts him as a founding father of the Hungarian people. Seredy provides a mousakka of fact and fiction; ancient prophecies and ethnocentric battles to immerse the reader in a tale of prophecy and its realization. Seredy avoids all the tellings of Lord of The Rings which emerges as a somewhat overdone hyperbole in comparison to 'The White Stag.' This might be a book with too much archaic language for young readers, but I thoroughly enjoyed it as a product of the hero and historical genre. Now that I’ve read it once, I feel like I need to read it again to give the book a fair evaluation. (But I don't really want to read it again, so... ay, there's the rub.) I spent the first half of the book struggling to find a direction. Ah, the river. Ah, the trees. Ah, the wind. The beauty that surrounds us, and the visions… I'm not a poetic person, and I know this. I know there's probably great crafting and art in those words, but I don't see it. All I really saw was: Psych! This is leading up to the birth and life of Attila the Hun. And he’s an a-okay guy! I didn't know anything about this book when I read it, so I may have been better served if I'd at least checked the back cover first. I'm too literal a person, and so reading it was a trip. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Retells the legendary story of the Huns' and Magyars' long migration from Asia to Europe where they hope to find a permanent home. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)398.2109439Social sciences Customs, Etiquette, Folklore Folklore Folk literature Tales and lore of paranatural beings of human and semihuman form Fairy tales by place Fairy tales of Europe Fairy Tales of Germany and Central EuropeLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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It read like those tedious warmongering chapters in the Old Testament, with a dash of ancient mythology thrown into the mix. Hard to imagine a child of any age ever enjoying this, but I guess kids were different in1937.
To be fair though, I've never had any taste for mythology. I prefer books about characters I can identify with and care about. Nimrod, Bendeguz and Attila were definitely not characters I related to, had interest in, or muster compassion for. ( )