More generally, themes explore being an abject person, often with regard to being a misunderstood artist. Otherwise, Rodgers' note is accurate.Ībject People/Artists: Many paint the entire book as being "about ghouls." True the Throne of Bones sequence is ghoul focused, but that comprises only 6 of the 15 tales.
The world is medieval, but there is little military or melee action (however, it is decidedly "dark fantasy"). I disagree with the Tolkien call-out since it raises the expectation that the book would resemble Sword & Sorcery or Epic Fantasy (this book fits neither sub-genre). And when you’ve finished them you’ll find yourself wanting more.” -Alan Rodgers These stories will make the same demands on you that they made on Brian: they will command and compel you, and fill you full of terrible wonder. Imagine what Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings would have been like if Tolkien had tried to tell that story sympathetically from the point of view of the human denizens of Mordor and you’ll have the slightest sense of what you’re about to wade into-but only just a sense. The stories inside it are rich, fascinating stuff-creepy and unsettling and phantasmic. There’s a reason this book won the World Fantasy Award. “You hold in your hands a book of stories that forced Brian McNaughton to write. I was originally hooked by Alan Rogers introductory comments: Fargo 1996, Burn After Reading 2008) the situations are so dire and characters so pathetic, that you cannot help but laugh at their choices and predicaments. Oddly-placed, but well-done, is a stylistic humor reminiscent of that presented in Cohen Brother's movies (i.e. The book won a 1997 World Fantasy Award and remains fresh and daring, even now (2012). With each successive story, the connection between characters clarifies as does the "rules" of being a ghoul. Here, the timid and disoriented may want to leave the book unfinished. Less so are the next six stories, which are a connected set (the titular Throne of Bones sequence) and should prove weird and jarring even to mature dark fantasy readers (can you say "ghoul erotica"?). The first tale, Ringard and Dendra, admittedly should prove digestible to many. I am biased toward enjoying provocative fantasy/horror, and Throne of Bones delivers a pleasantly disturbing escape that is too shocking for young adults.
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