Padma and the Elephant Sutra
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Picked up for review over at Underground Book Review.
Picked because it seemed to have anthropomorphic themes.
Picked because it seemed to have anthropomorphic themes.
If James A. Michener decided to write the history of Ceylon from the point of view of the elephants, you’d have something very close to this novel. This sums up much of the greatness and flaws I discovered in Padma and the Elephant Sutra.
Great swaths of this book dragged a bit, bogged down with minutia of the elephants’ mythos and history. I found it hardest in the first third of the book, as reader me sat wondering when the “old soldier” mentioned on the back cover would show up.
Once I forgot about that silly old man, I got what I came for, namely the anthropomorphic elephants. It was very realistically accomplished. Instead of feeling like a fantasy adapted race of creatures who just happened to have trunks, the Elephants of Ceylon and Kandy come to life as the very smart creatures they really are.
…read the complete review at UndergroundBookReviews(dot)org
Great swaths of this book dragged a bit, bogged down with minutia of the elephants’ mythos and history. I found it hardest in the first third of the book, as reader me sat wondering when the “old soldier” mentioned on the back cover would show up.
Once I forgot about that silly old man, I got what I came for, namely the anthropomorphic elephants. It was very realistically accomplished. Instead of feeling like a fantasy adapted race of creatures who just happened to have trunks, the Elephants of Ceylon and Kandy come to life as the very smart creatures they really are.
…read the complete review at UndergroundBookReviews(dot)org
