Like a Mighty Army: Safehold, Book 7 Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00HDOLHVC | Format: EPUB
Like a Mighty Army: Safehold, Book 7 Description
For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new - no new inventions, no new understandings of the world.
What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud - a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold's founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth. Then awoke Merlyn Athrawes, cybernetic avatar of a warrior a thousand years dead, felled in the war in which Earth was lost.
Monk, warrior, counselor to princes and kings, Merlyn has one purpose: to restart the history of the too-long-hidden human race.
And now the fight is thoroughly underway. The island empire of Charis has declared its independence from the Church, and with Merlyn's help has vaulted forward into a new age of steam-powered efficiency. Fending off the wounded Church, Charis has drawn more and more of the countries of Safehold to the cause of independence and self-determination. But at a heavy cost in bloodshed and loss - a cost felt by nobody more keenly that Merlyn Athrawes.
The wounded Church is regrouping. Its armies and resources are vast. The fight for humanity's future isn't over, and won't be over soon...
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 27 hours and 31 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: February 18, 2014
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HDOLHVC
Please don't get me wrong here, because I have been a huge fan of Mr. Weber, almost since his very beginning. But I have to confess that I can only play the linguistic masochist for just so long. And this entire Safehold series, while holding initial promise, is chock full of roadblocks for the average reader. And the main culprit is the constant ability of taking simple/common names, and twisting them into something that even a typical Russian would find a bit too much.
I am just a lowly physical anthropologist, and not a linguist expert. But I know that names, like other words, tend to become simplified over time, not the other way around. Its the way languages work out. And too, why do such words as 'colonel', 'major', or other ranks remain clear and easy to understand, while a person's name is so contorted and twisted, that the reader is required to stop reading, break down the coded name, and finally stumble on, only to have to keep doing this from front to back, while keeping a set of printed out maps available, just to know where the story is currently being played out, throughout the novel.
Its simply too much for me to endure. I haven't even managed the half way point here, and have to finally say "Enough!" I can't take this any longer. Mr. Weber, you are guilty of two sins of late. First off, you are a master of bloviation. I am reminded of my attempt to wade through T.E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom". And too, you have turned this series into a special language course. I just don't have time any longer to read one installment, where I have familiarized myself with all the quaint names and locations on your maps.
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