Raptor

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AN ADVENTURER UNLIKE ANY OTHER THE RAPTORHE BOLDLY EMBRACED THE PASSION AND VIOLENCE OF AN EMPIRE AS CORRUPT AS IT WAS MAGNIFICENTAn abandoned waif, the blond, gray eyed Goth was called simply Thorn From his unorthodox sexual awakening in a monastery and a convent to his exciting journey across Europe in search of his people, he would learn a warrior s skills and the cunning of a survivor And amidst it all a stunning secret would mark him forever as an outsider who knew too deeply and too well all the hidden desires of men s and women s hearts In the great cities of a dying empire, on the battlefields of Roman legions, and in the opulent palaces of potentates and kings, Thorn would witness human beings at their most brutal and their most noble His incomparable adventures bring to electrifying life a vanished age never again matched for its doers of great deedsand of chilling revenge Set in the fifth century A.D and framed by Theodoric the Great s conquest of Rome. New Read [ Raptor ] By [ Gary Jennings ] – kino-fada.fr This was one of those books I couldn t put down and suffered at work the next day for it The story and characters have stuck with me these 9 years since I have read it One of my friends made off with my paperback copy, so I just recently decided to replace it with a first edition hardcover This isn t really a spoiler, but there are many graphic scen...Read this with a map to chart the course of the Danube and also learned of the cities and passes in the Alps, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Tirol and so on From the high mountains and open spaces in Alsace, the crumbling ruins of once mighty Rom...I loved the fact that the book is very narrative Throughout the passages you learn about different cultures and customs adopted by different civilizations such as goths, ostrogoth, ect It talks about the adventures of the character Thorn, who is brought up and raised as a boy in a monistr...Trash tacular yet compelling Still, Gary Jennings novels are always despite my better judgment How can a guy be so punctilious about his historical research and yet not learn that a hermaphrodite is not fully functionalNot quite as good as his other books Probably as good as Aztec so the story is outstanding in any case Go get it and read it WagRaptor will always be a fond favorite of mine It was the first taboo book I d ever read, and incidentally, one of the first characters aside from Lyra Belacqua in Pullman s His Dark Materials trilogy whom I identified with I credit Gary Jennings for opening my eyes to a world beyond one dimensional heroes and heroines In that same vein, Jennings had this incredible ability to take a simple thread and weave it into a complex, colorful tapestry applying both to his well rounded characters and Raptor will always be a fond favorite of mine It was the first taboo book I d ever read, and incidentally, one of the first characters aside from Lyra Belacqua in Pullman s His Dark Materials trilogy whom I identified with I credit Gary Jennings for opening my eyes to a world beyond one dimensional heroes and heroines In that same vein, Jennings had this incredible ability to take a simple thread and weave it into a complex, colorful tapestry applying both to his well rounded characters and highly engaging plot line I fell in love with Thorn Veleda from page one and was a willing literary slave thro...Greatly enjoy Jenning s writing and Thorn s character Throughout the book I felt Thorn maintained his base personality in being adventurous, inventive, curious and mischievous And occasionally clumsy For the most part I greatly enjoyed this book Towards the end there were times I was a little bored I had to give it five stars because I felt there was so much in this book It is a long book, but it s not just adventures and mischievousness, there s insight about the times and about Thorn s c Greatly enjoy Jenning s writing and Thorn s character Throughout the book I felt Thorn maintained his base personality in being adventurous, inventive, curious and mischievous And occasionally clumsy For the most part I greatly enjoyed this book Towards the end there were times I was a little bored I had to give it five stars because I felt there was so much in this book It is a long book, but it s not just adventures and mischievousness, there s insight about the times and about Thorn s condition Thorn is what we d call now an intersex individual, raised male and in a time period when being male ...Read these Runes On the whole I enjoyed this novel the fictitious memoirs of the hermaphrodite Thorn I hated in the first Part In the Ring of Balsam the drawn out, graphic first sexual experiences of the intersex hero heroine, Thorn, in both a monastery and a convent, In fact, anything of a graphic nature from then on I skipped over I almost quit reading completely because of Part I, but am really glad I persevered after the first 70 80 pages Thorn had been left at the monastery as Read these Runes On the whole I enjoyed this novel the fictitious memoirs of the hermaphrodite Thorn I hated in the first Part In the Ring of Balsam the drawn out, graphic first sexual experiences of the intersex hero heroine, Thorn, in both a monastery and a convent, In fact, anything o...What a story It takes place in like the first century or something which automatically makes itinteresting to me, being historical and all The descriptions of the various lands, how people dress, and how much variety there is in the different tribes and groups of people that the main character interacts with is so vivid and described so perfectly Jennings has great style without having the style itself stand out or keep you from picturing yourself right there with the character Thorn s What a story It takes place in like the first century or something which automatically makes itinteresting to me, being historical and all The descriptions of the various lands,...this is one of those novels i forgot that i read until just recently it s breathtakingly unique and astoundingly different it tells the story of an intersexed Visigoth and while you may be going, Did I just read that correctly I assure you that you did and that it is a wonderful and...

Raptor
  • English
  • 19 January 2018
  • Mass Market Paperback
  • 917 pages
  • 0553562827
  • Gary Jennings
  • Raptor