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Forest Wars
Midwest Book Review Don't expect pure fantasy with this fable; more a blend of war/romance despite its fantasy setting. Enjoy fine intrigue and in-depth action.
420 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
About the author
Graham Diamond
33 books47 followersIn 2015 Venture Press Ltd, UK contracted to reissue seven of Graham Diamond's most noted titles. Among them was THE HAVEN, Diamond's renown cult classic. Others include the EMPIRE PRINCESS series:
LADY OF THE HAVEN; DUNGEONS OF KUBA, THE FALCON OF EDEN, THE BEASTS OF HADES.
In addition, the two part SAMARKAND and SAMARKAND DAWN were released to new worldwide audiences.
Graham Diamond began writing as a fantasy and science fiction author. He was born in Manchester, England, after World War II, and his family moved to the United States when he was a young child. He was raised in New York City, on the Upper West Side, and graduated from the High School of Music and Art. He attended CCNY in NY, and the Art Students League of New York.
He worked for the New York Times as a production manager in Editorial Art for many years. He has also taught creative writing in New York and California.
-Wikipedia
LADY OF THE HAVEN; DUNGEONS OF KUBA, THE FALCON OF EDEN, THE BEASTS OF HADES.
In addition, the two part SAMARKAND and SAMARKAND DAWN were released to new worldwide audiences.
Graham Diamond began writing as a fantasy and science fiction author. He was born in Manchester, England, after World War II, and his family moved to the United States when he was a young child. He was raised in New York City, on the Upper West Side, and graduated from the High School of Music and Art. He attended CCNY in NY, and the Art Students League of New York.
He worked for the New York Times as a production manager in Editorial Art for many years. He has also taught creative writing in New York and California.
-Wikipedia
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January 12, 2018
Forest Wars exemplifies many things: how a writer with all the talent of an overconfident adolescent can snag a book deal, or how a decent story idea can be made both tedious and laughable all at once.
This book is terrible. The characters are pale and predictable (and almost always male), the story flat and bereft of any dramatic tension, and the narrative style completely uninteresting. While there is the nugget of a good idea at the heart of Forest Wars, author Graham Diamond is not the writer who could spin gold from that particular straw.
What takes this book from loathsome to laughable are the many, many malapropisms. One character is accused of "fermenting unrest", while another is described as having combat skills that are "suburb." Sounds like someone ran over this manuscript with a spell-checker, which would not catch these mistakes, instead of eyeballs, which would. Something else that might have been prevented was the hilarious misuse of the English language:
"The landscape provided a melodramatic, turbid scene."
"Chicanery--deception and hypocrisy with which they hope to frighten the world into submission, intending to coerce us to tremble and recoil in their wake."
"The people required demure leadership and his dominant image more than ever."
These sentences--and many, many others--look as if they were assembled by a sentient thesaurus that somehow worked its will on Lion Press, which published this clanking, clattering collection of crap.
Forest Wars is quite possibly the worst book I have ever read. Shame on you, Graham Diamond, for spawning this piece of garbage, and on you, Lion Press, for unleashing it upon an unsuspecting world.
This book is terrible. The characters are pale and predictable (and almost always male), the story flat and bereft of any dramatic tension, and the narrative style completely uninteresting. While there is the nugget of a good idea at the heart of Forest Wars, author Graham Diamond is not the writer who could spin gold from that particular straw.
What takes this book from loathsome to laughable are the many, many malapropisms. One character is accused of "fermenting unrest", while another is described as having combat skills that are "suburb." Sounds like someone ran over this manuscript with a spell-checker, which would not catch these mistakes, instead of eyeballs, which would. Something else that might have been prevented was the hilarious misuse of the English language:
"The landscape provided a melodramatic, turbid scene."
"Chicanery--deception and hypocrisy with which they hope to frighten the world into submission, intending to coerce us to tremble and recoil in their wake."
"The people required demure leadership and his dominant image more than ever."
These sentences--and many, many others--look as if they were assembled by a sentient thesaurus that somehow worked its will on Lion Press, which published this clanking, clattering collection of crap.
Forest Wars is quite possibly the worst book I have ever read. Shame on you, Graham Diamond, for spawning this piece of garbage, and on you, Lion Press, for unleashing it upon an unsuspecting world.
November 20, 2017
Valamilyen ajánlás alapján kezdtem el olvasni. Erdő, tél, harcosok. Érdekesnek tűnt. Hetekig szenvedtem az első pár fejezettel, azután belekezdtem, de egyre jobban bosszantott a könyv. Beszélő állatokkal ki lehet üldözni a világból, itt meg beszélnek a farkasok, az összes madár, a kígyók és a kutyák. De a lovak, szamarak és tehenek nem. Mi a fenéért nem?
A fő ostrom előtt az egyesített seregek elit része vakmerő küldetésbe kezd, elesnek. Erre a maradék seregecske kepes hetekig állni az ostromot. Mi lett volna ha az észlények nem pusztulnak el az ostrom előtt!? Ráadásul kutyák ostromolnak kővárat!!! Sikerrel! Agyam eldobom. Valamint a trójai fakutya, és a semmiből előhúzott pirotechnika. A végére nagyon elgurolt a szerző gyógyszere.
A fő ostrom előtt az egyesített seregek elit része vakmerő küldetésbe kezd, elesnek. Erre a maradék seregecske kepes hetekig állni az ostromot. Mi lett volna ha az észlények nem pusztulnak el az ostrom előtt!? Ráadásul kutyák ostromolnak kővárat!!! Sikerrel! Agyam eldobom. Valamint a trójai fakutya, és a semmiből előhúzott pirotechnika. A végére nagyon elgurolt a szerző gyógyszere.
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