The Warrior-Prophet: The Prince of Nothing - Book Two [Paperback]

R. Scott Bakker (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Canada. (2004)
• ISBN-10: 0143015338
• ISBN-13: 978-0143015338
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.3 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,780,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The second book delivers!, October 3, 2004

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B. Porter - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Warrior-Prophet: The Prince of Nothing - Book Two (Paperback)

I reviewed "The Darkness That Comes Before" and gave it 2 stars. I stand by that rating, but I'm extremely happy I stuck with the second book in the series!

The Warrior Prophet is fantastic. The introduction to the book finally gives a succint explanation of the overall framework... reminiscent of the scrolling text in the beginning of Star Wars or the overview in the Lord of the Rings movies.

The characters evolve and develop and take on their traits through their dialog. The characters clearly change through the book. Khellus evolves into a messiah. Achamian is transformed into an all-powerful sorceror. The power center shifts from Proyas and Xinemus to Khellus and Achamian. You have a sense that the ultimate role of Esmenet and Cnaiur are still to be revealed.

The climax is potent and the imagery is much more visceral.

I anxiously await the next book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Philosophy on the hoof, September 27, 2004

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Todd Ellner "biblioholic, not in recovery" (Portland, Oregon USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Warrior-Prophet: The Prince of Nothing - Book Two (Paperback)

This book continues the lovingly detailed world building of The Darkness That Comes Before and adds a sense of horrible necessity. With everything from the linguistic family trees to the interplay of Gnosis and Logos the author he creates a real place that still manages to be utterly fantastic.

In this volume, more than in almost any book I've read we get to see inside the heads of people who are greater and more intelligent than the author or the reader. This is a very neat trick.

As I alluded to earlier, the world is very well constructed. There is a real sense of history as well as merely place. There is religion, not just theistic special effects. We see transformation, and it is often awful and wonderful - in that it creates awe and wonder.

5.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Achievement, September 1, 2004

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Terrence Findlay "twnf" (Keremeos, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews
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"Warning: This novel contains violence, nudity, and coarse language. Parental discretion is advised. " While this cautionary statement applies perfectly to The Warrior Prophet, it belies the breadth, the depth, and the beauty of the tale. There are scenes of brutally graphic violence. There are also episodes of explicit sexual encounters. And there are occasions where characters utter coarse language. However, none of these episodes is in any way gratuitous. Every event in this epic unfailingly serves to further character development, move the plot forward, and/or enhance the versimiltude of time and place.

There is also great beauty to be found in The Warrior Prophet. The language flows with a poetic sensibility. Moments of glory and trancendance are achieved, however ephemeral their substance. And the fantastic is rendered so skillfully that one scarcely remembers if there ever was a boundary between our own reality and this world of Bakker's creation.

The third book in The Prince of Nothing series cannot come soon enough for this reader.