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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780345407979
ISBN number: 0345407970
Label: Del Rey
Manufacturer: Del Rey
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: October 29, 1997
Publishing house: Del Rey
Release Date: October 29, 1997
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Studio: Del Rey
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After 20 years, Jon Shannow, the legendary Jerusalem Man, returns for a deadly showdown with the fiendish Deacon, the vicious Jerusalem Riders, and a monstrous god that feeds on souls.
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I read this when I was in high school (10 yrs ago maybe..). I enjoyed it. It may not have been as complicated as some novels, but it, and the rest of the series, were definitely good books. I would recommend them to any fantasy/sci fi fan.
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I've enjoyed Gemmell's novels, particularly the Druss stories. However, after reading most of his books, it becomes obvious they all follow a general formula. It doesn't make them any less fun to read. The formulaic parts just make them comfortable. The was my very first John Shannow story and yet, it didn't seem new to me. There's a definite Clint Eastwood-type of western influence on the story, but it is also similar in many ways to Gemmell's "Hero in the Shadows." It took me a little while to get oriented to the story. The prologue, in particular, seemed disconnected with the rest of the story for a long time. It's not deep fiction, but it's definitely a fun adventure featuring a flawed hero.
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Jon Shannow is a troubled man whose personal philosophy reflects the ambiguity of any moral philosophy that acknowledges a) the complexity of human nature and b) the complexity of the world. Shannow and the other characters in the novel are continuously playing with ideas about how to live a better life. Some of them are clearly losers--stubbornly "good" men who are shot dead in the streets and evil men who seek to escape death only to meet it as Shannow's bullet blast through their bodies. But there are no winners. Instead, the survivors and the heroes are people who acknowledge the evil in what they do, but are driven to do it because they think they are facing greater evils. Shannow is an untrained clairvoyant, a man deeply appalled by evil, and a man with superb hand-eye coordination. When his family is killed, he becomes a hunter of the kind of men who killed his family, the robbers and sadists who act amorally, pushing aside moral principles in pursuit of their more brutal desires.
As a hunter, he finds his principles put to the test when he is in position to cause tremendous evil in order to avert what seems to be a greater one. Gemmell's novel may favor Shannow's character, and thus give tacit acceptance to his behavior, but he lets readers know that Shannow's path is far from a good one.
The problems with Bloodstone are two: 1) Part of the timeline is believable but not fully explained and justified. 2) The characters represent different ideas, but how they came to embody these ideas and why is left to the reader's imagination. In other words, character development is limited. However, the character's are undeniably cool.
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Bloodstone is another great book by the master of fantasy, David Gemmell. He remains my favorite author and I have yet to find a book by him that is not excellent.
I started reading David Gemmell with his Drenai saga, and I recommend starting there. Legend was his very first book, which is very good, but my two favorites are Winter Warriors and Hero in the Shawdows. These books create very human characters, all with their own flaws, who struggle to stay good and just in a world of evil.
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One of my favorite things about the Stones of Power novels is that where you start from is completely different (but somehow logical) than where you end. How does Gemmell get from a sickly prince lost in the woods to a legendary pistol fighter somewhere in the future? How do we travel from ancient Atlantis to Arizona?
But he does it. The conclusion to the Stones of Power series is one of the most powerful books in the series. It deals with time travel (in a non-traditional way) which usually gives me a headache... but Gemmell warps the idea of time travel to fit into the storyline... and fit into my pea brain!
There is a lot of religious activity in the book. It's interesting (and sort of painful) for me as a Christian to read the book. You see a Preacher trying to do good, but as is too often the case the foundation of good intentions turns into a river of blood. There's a bit of the crusades in this book, but scripture is used from the bible as a prop and a tool. He's not preaching at us, he's writing a realistic story and the characters are well intentioned, but wrong.
Bloodstone answers questions the previous books left unanswered all the while creating a new story. Technically, all of the Stones of Power books can stand on their own. But why mess with such perfection?
If you've never read Gemmell, go read Ghost King and follow the series all the way through. It was an amazing sci-fi/fantasy journey, highly recommended for fans of both genres.
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