Tandia
by Bryce Courtenay
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Author: Bryce CourtenayEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown)
Published: 1998
ISBN: 1552780139
Number of pages: 900
Publisher: McArthur & Company
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Book Review: It feels bad when its over..great writer.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an author I hate to start reading. He is no lover of happy endings. He is so great an author it feels bad when its over. It feels as though your mother just left you at the nursery school door and you are five years old. So forlorn.
Mama come back I am forlorn because this book has ended. Yes he is a glorious writer.
Bryce Courtenay writes books that make such an impression. When I have simply told others about small parts of his books they were quiet and just wanted to hear more. Sometimes the ..entire book... [[Tommo and Hawk, The Potato Factory]]
His books are an emotional investment. Once you start it, it will grip you and sieze your emotions and change you and make you think and reflect. Wow.
Of all his books, which are exceptional, each of them, of these exceptional books, I liked Tandia the least of a great series. She was not a very likeable character as far as charisma. Many of his main characters thruout his books were downright reprehensible as people. Rotten as to be the bottom of the barrel, and worked hard at it to be that way but had charisma.
I didnt find that element charisma in how Tandia's character was written. I felt adrift at the end of the book. I was not happy with how some loose ends were left unaddressed...
Now I have a bone to pick about those loose ends. I finished Tandia a few weeks ago and this still bothers me.
What about Hymie? What makes Peekay think that his devoted friends won't come after him. I am finishing "The Power of One" now and his devoted following was entrenched and dedicated to him as a kid. It is even more inconceivable a search party or tracker will not go and hunt down ..the former Welterweight Champion of the World? the Missing Tadpole Angel?
I am finishing the "Power of One" and he gave Doc an oath never to let anyone else know about or violate the santity of the Crystal Cave? He promised Doc never to reveal its presence to anyone. Now all kinds of people are going to find it when they go looking for Heldenheiss, and Peekay. When they follow the same blood trail Heldenheiss did.
Thus my conclusion is, with all the unlikely accomplishments Peekay made in his lifetime, his next was to leave the Crystal Cave in the sequel that was never published or I never found.
I recommend all his books I have read: The Potato Factory, Tommo and Hawk, The Power of One.
I listened to the audiobook and that had an additional element that added to the book because the narrator for Mr. Courtenay's books is truly one of the most gifted ever. That guy deserves fan letters himself.
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