Orcs

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• Orcs: Weapons of Magical Destruction (Bad Blood 1), by Stan Nicholls

  Home Contact us Posts Comments Ho for the orc, staple of fantasy fiction: invariably green, ugly and violent, with dubious personal hygiene and a serious image problem. Where would traditional high fantasy be without them? They seldom have names or p ... (read full critics)

  bookgeeks published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

• Orcs – The Omnibus Edition, by Stan Nicholls

  Home Contact us Posts Comments I bought this from a bookshop on a whim, purely on the strength of the cover, which includes praise from favourite author Tad Williams. I don’t usually buy books without doing my homework first, and once I started readi ... (read full critics)

  bookgeeks published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  I approached this book with some expectations. It looked original, at least. Quite the opposite, it is full of stereotypes, the plot is ludicrous and the characters paper-thin.

  I believe the author would like to depict orcs similar to humans but there is not such a thing as a step-by-step realisati ... (continue)

  I approached this book with some expectations. It looked original, at least. Quite the opposite, it is full of stereotypes, the plot is ludicrous and the characters paper-thin.

  I believe the author would like to depict orcs similar to humans but there is not such a thing as a step-by-step realisation from the reader: one could swap "orc" for "human" from the very first page and nothing would change (which says a lot on how well characters are defined).

  Well descripted fights (there are loads of them) get eventually repetitive and cannot save a very poor story.

  I got to the end of the 700 pages just hoping it would get better. In vain. I could only feel sadness for the lost occasion.

  Very disappointing. 4/10

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• English Books
• Paperback 784 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0316033707
• ISBN-13: 9780316033701
• Publisher: Orbit
• Pub date: Sep 08, 2008
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Others

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