Jakkit Chaiparsert Chaiparsert itibaren Starokrasnaya Sloboda, Bryanskaya oblast', Rusya, 243412 itibaren Starokrasnaya Sloboda, Bryanskaya oblast', Rusya, 243412

Ususally, even if I don't like the book, I try to finish it, at least for the sake of knowing how it will end. Alas, in this case I felt I couldn't continue reading it, at least for now. The events are moving very slowly, there's nearly no action, and the plot is not as interesting as i thought it would be. The reason for the unfolding of the events and the action in the novel, Dee's unleashing the evil forces is not interesting enough for me. The only positive thing i can say about this book that it was good in the beginning and that i enjoyed reading about the character of Hughes. I hope that I will come back and finish this book someday.

If you've never read anything by R.A. Lafferty, please do as soon as you can. I recommend starting with his short fiction, a few examples of which are available online at [www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/cla...]. (By the way, can anybody give me some tips on formatting here? HTML doesn't work and the advice in the sidebar seems not to either.) Fourth Mansions is a shaggy badger story starring an improbably likeable young reporter with "good eyes but simple brains" named Fred Foley. Freddy has stumbled into an ancient mystical conspiracy that is trying to immanentize an (also mystical) eschaton. It might sound like the setup for Illuminatus!, and indeed dates from around the same time. Lafferty's inimitable, exuberant prose will pull you along the helical path of Freddy's awakening so skillfully you won't even realize what's happening to you until it's too late. As Lafferty warns us on the first page: "It is too late for you to withdraw. The damage is done to you. ... Die a little. There is reason for it."