Title: Boring waste of time
Product review: An utterly boring waste of time. The book is full of words, a veritable word factory, written in pseudo-lyrical style, but the plot is predicable and as the reader nears the end of the book, the terrible realization begins to dawn that it's all leading nowhere. The trite ending eventually confirms the reader's well-founded fear.There is absolutely no similarity between the fourth rate plotting and second rate use of language of Dunsany and that of J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings are poetic, heroic, epic, something to which Dunsany might aspire in his dreams, but then he -- and his duped reader -- must wake up to real life....I should have known I was in for a disappointment when I saw that great self-important mediocrity, Neil Gaiman, involved himself in the book by writing an utterly meaningless introduction.As for Del Rey publishing bringing this book back from its well-deserved oblivion, they really shouldn't have.
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