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2/14/2011

Books of 2011: Under Heaven

I just finished reading Guy Gavriel Kay's "Under Heaven."

This book is poetry.  Reading it, you are constantly struck by the language, by the story.  I don't know how describe it adequately; I don't have the words for it. 

Guy Gavriel Kay writes writes stories that are woven in and out of history.  The books are almost fantasy, almost real.  "Under Heaven" occurs in a place much like Tang-era China, and the cultures that you encounter in the story are one of the reasons why it is so interesting. 

I have a passle of other books that I've read and need to write up here, but this one was special, and it got it's own post. 

I give "Under Heaven" a rating of Amazing/10.

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