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Enchantment
by Orson Scott Card

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Author: Orson Scott Card
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-02-29
ISBN: 0345416880
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Del Rey

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Book Review: Blending the familiar with the unexpected with success.
Summary: 5 Stars

In ENCHANTMENT, Orson Scott Card has nimbly avoided repetition of the coming-of-age trials familiar to those readers who already know Ender and Alvin, and he has deftly retained his familiar style and successful 'character evolution' motif set in a fresh plot and refreshing environment concocted from Carpathian folk lore, time-travel, a magic versus science dynamic, and even religious philosophy. As the characters and action move back and forth across time and space, fable and history, Card poses some interesting questions. How useful is knowing all the modern versions of a folk tale when one is suddenly confronted by the culture and events that gave rise to the earliest 'reality-based' version of that tale? What happens when 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' are the hero's only travel and etiquette guides and the local Wicked Witch can enchant her way through the international airline reservation system while the hero has to pay for a full-price ticket because he is not recognized as Sir Boss in either the past or the present? Card is particularly skillful in making the villains perform as both the comic relief and the characters who most successfully adapt to the culture shocks of time and [modern] air travel. Read ENCHANTMENT to find out what was REALLY wrong with that miserably uncomfortable seat you were assigned on your last trans-Atlantic flight.

ENCHANTMENT is a good introduction to the work of Orson Scott Card and an excellent reason for digging out any of Card's earlier books that are too far from the top of one's To Read pile. The ending does not preclude a sequel, but ENCHANTMENT stands alone in a most satisfying fashion. Applying the same view point and hypotheses to another folk tale from another culture would work as well as a continuation of this well-resolved story. Still, now we know the origin of the chicken leg [or legs], but what about the flying mortar and pestle?

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