Gentlemen of the Road

Posted on 16 May 2017 by Michael Chabon

Two wandering adventurers and unlikely soulmates are variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves and con artists until fortune entangles them in the myriad schemes and battles that follow a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars. Free Download Gentlemen of the Road Author Michael Chabon For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr C 66% Almost Satisfactory NotesGrandiloquent verbosity and overlong sentences make what should be an escapist tale a needlessly bothersome read.All the evil in the world derives from the actions of men acting in a mass against other masses of menMichael Chabon, Gentlemen of the RoadJews with Swords I guess that was Chabon s working title, if Chabon is to be believed He is a bit unreliable His prose, however, is delicious His perspective is always new and fresh I don t think this is nearly one of his great ones , but it seems like it might have been the most enjoyable that I ve read so far for Chabon to write It is a yarn, aAll the evil in the world derives from the actions of men acting in a mass against other masses of menMichael Chabon, Gentlemen of the RoadJews with Swords I guess that was Chabon s working title, if Chabon is to be believed He is a bit unreliable His prose, howeve...It is impossible to verbalise how much I wanted to like this book I became an ardent fan of Chabon s output after The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Clay and subsequently read The Wonder Boys hoping forof the same I rapidly realised that Chabon is an author who might thematically link his books in many ways Judaism, homosexuality and the struggle to achieve an identity are ongoing themes but he s not one for sticking to the same style, much like grand master of the ever changing It is impossible to verbalise how much I wanted to like this boo...There was no hope for an empire that lost the will to prosecute the grand and awful business of adventure The Gentlemen of the Road is a buddy adventure epic set in the Caucasus Mountains region in 950 AD, with a lapsed Jew named Zelikman and an African named Amram as the titular duo It is an adventure story through and through, but it is written in a literary style It is not often that the two combine, however Michael Chabon, the author, pulls of the feat admirably Chabon can write There was no hope for an empire that lost the will to prosecute the grand and awful business of adventure The Gentlemen of the Road is a buddy adventure epic set in the Caucasus Mountains region in 950 AD, with a lapsed Jew named Zelikman and an African named Amram as the titular duo It is an adventure story through and through, but it is written in a literary style It is not often that the two combine, however Michael Chabon, the author, pulls of the feat admirably Chabon can...I thought this was great fun The writing has been criticised as rather over wrought well, it is certainly a little baroque but Chabon s tongue is firmly in his cheek, and there is a wittiness to his descriptions which makes me very willing to go along for the ride Besides, the sentences may be elaborate, but they are always interesting, utterly free from clich , and often strange and beautiful Then, as if overhearing and taking pity on the maudlin trend of his thoughts, the wind carried to I thought this was great fun The writing has been criticised as rather over wrought well, it is certainly a little baroque but Chabon s tongue is firmly in his cheek, and there is a wittiness to his descriptions which makes me very willing to go along for the ride Besides, the sentences may be elaborate, but they are always interesting, utterly free from clich , and often strange and beautiful Then, as if overhearing and taking pity on the maudlin trend of his thoughts, the wind carried to his nostrils from the fires of the troops camped in the valley the desert tang of a camel dung fire, and with it the plangent cry of a soldier muezzin calling his saddle weary brothers to a belated Jumuah.The plot, for its part, is a full on no excuses Adventure tale, with plenty of derring do and Byzantine soldiers and isolated kingdoms and s...What occurs when you have the freedom to produce any length book after winning the Pulitzer Believe it This one is too short to be adventuresome, too busy in its prose to match its zippy plot Every single sentence must be odd and fascinating which does ...A fun little picaresque tale of adventure and daring do I had no idea what to expect from this book when I picked it up a few weeks back from Powell s after a particularly entertaining reading from the author not this book, he read from his newest I do have to say that, after reading three of Chabon s book at this point, that the man definitely has a knack for keeping me guessing He follows the muse wherever, and I do mean wherever, she may alight.This may not be a piece of Chabon s work A fun little picaresque tale of adventure and daring do I had no idea what to expect from this book when I picked it up a few weeks back from Powell s after a particularly entertaining reading from the author not this book, he read from his newest I d...A rollicking book If any book deserves the word rollicking , this is it This adventure yarn draws heavily and with much love from Michael Moorcock, Fritz Leiber, and Robert E Howard, among others While some readers may wonder what s the point , the reader who does no...18 in my Top 20 Books I Read in 2015 Chabon pretending he is Jules Verne Combines all the sheer, unbound awesomeness of Jules Verne and Michael Chabon If all the books I read were this good I would do little in my life but read.I stole this book from my friend Krystal Ok, not so much stole as co opted for a few days I see her at the coffee shop and she shows me the book she just started reading She then starts talking to other people Having left my book at home in a rare moment of bibliotardedness, I start reading hers She wanders off to run errands nearby and by the time she comes back I m a third of the way into it She gathers her things to go and tells me, Go ahead and finish it I ve got an...

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16 May 2017

Michael Chabon