Beyond Black Archives - Reading the End https://readingtheend.com/tag/beyond-black/ before I read the middle Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:33:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://readingtheend.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-reading-the-end-with-words-2-32x32.jpg Beyond Black Archives - Reading the End https://readingtheend.com/tag/beyond-black/ 32 32 53371782 Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel https://readingtheend.com/2009/03/23/beyond-black-hilary-mantel/ https://readingtheend.com/2009/03/23/beyond-black-hilary-mantel/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:33:50 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=576 I started out liking this book a lot, and then I liked it progressively less and less.  Fie to Philip Pullman who thinks it is so wonderful – this is just the sort of book you would think he would like.  Bah.  I agree with GeraniumCat that it’s a really interesting and genuine depiction of the dead, but I didn’t like the book taken altogether.  I got tired and depressed reading it, which I don’t think is the effect books are meant to have.  Plus, although Tarot cards didn’t feature prominently, I often didn’t like the interpretations of the cards…

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]]> I started out liking this book a lot, and then I liked it progressively less and less.  Fie to Philip Pullman who thinks it is so wonderful – this is just the sort of book you would think he would like.  Bah.  I agree with GeraniumCat that it’s a really interesting and genuine depiction of the dead, but I didn’t like the book taken altogether.  I got tired and depressed reading it, which I don’t think is the effect books are meant to have.  Plus, although Tarot cards didn’t feature prominently, I often didn’t like the interpretations of the cards that the author gave.  Fortunately I read Beyond Black in between volumes of Fables, and those cheered me up enormously.

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