The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker – review
Over the course of the next month or so, I’ll be relocating some reviews I did some years ago over at my old blog (The Bodhisattva) over to BSC. Some content that no longer makes sense (if it ever did!) and is no longer applicable, like links that don’t exist anymore, will be removed. Also, I now have the benefit of handing this to a second pair of eyes for editorial corrections–which I didn’t have or really care about before! This time around is my review of R. Scott Bakker’s The Darkness That Comes Before.
Check it out after the jump…
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Exclusive – Neuropath by R. Scott Bakker (first chapter)
You should know better. After all, you’re watching it on the news: the diagonally parked cruisers, the milling officials who glance and scowl in your direction. You see the cordons, the lengths of sagging tape, and without thinking you know that there, on the far side, lies something horrific, the residue of something too wicked [...]
Book Review – The Warrior-Prophet
Author: R. Scott Bakker Publisher: Overlook Press Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2005 The Warrior-Prophet, the second volume of R. Scott Bakker’s The Prince of Nothing trilogy, brings his complex characters closer to their goals and ramps up the tension in their conflicts. Yet ethereal philosophical concepts and inner monologue still dominate this erudite epic fantasy [...]
Contest – Win The Prince of Nothing trilogy signed by R. Scott Bakker
Very excited to announce that Fantasybookspot.com’s March Drawing will give everyone an opportunity to experience what is I think, one of the landmark completed epic fantasy sequences, The Prince of Nothing trilogy, by R. Scott Bakker. Brought to its end with the release of the powerful concluding chapter, The Thousandfold Thought (my review here), this [...]
Book Review – The Thousandfold Thought
Author: R. Scott Bakker Publisher: Overlook Press Binding: Paperback Publication Date January 2006 Fans of epic fantasy love debuts, and even if not true debuts, the introduction to a new sequence by an established author. We enjoy; fresh, new material blazing a trail, that continue us down the path that is our reading experience. This [...]
Book Review – The Darkness that Comes Before
Author: R. Scott Bakker Publisher: Overlook Press Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2004 “‘He is less. And he’s more.’” This line of dialog from Chapter Twelve perfectly sums up R. Scott Bakker’s debut novel, The Darkness That Comes Before. Bakker’s knowledge of ancient languages and his doctorate in philosophy give his epic fantasy a unique flavor. [...]
On the Spot at BSC – R. Scott Bakker interview (2005)
BSC continues its streak of absolute luck being able to get yet another supremely talented author to visit us ‘On the Spot’. We like to try to cover all sub-genres in Fantasy and we have one of the best regardless of category today. Author of what is in my opinion what is thus far one [...]
