The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, Book 2)

Paperback, 624 pages

English language

Published Oct. 25, 2005 by Overlook TP.

ISBN:
978-1-58567-728-3
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OCLC Number:
57514766

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Thematisch faszinierende Fantasy mit erzählerischen Schwächen

In "The Warrior Prophet" schließt R. Scott Bakker unmittelbar an die Geschichte aus "The Darkness That Comes Before" an. Er schildert den Marsch des "Heiligen Krieges" nach Süden in Richtung der heiligen Stadt Shimeh. Dabei zeigt er eindrucksvoll auf, wie religiöse, politische und persönliche Interessen eine volatile Mischung erzeugen. Und wie schwer es uns Menschen fällt, das Unbekannte zu akzeptieren oder gar zu verstehen.

Diesmal konzentriert er sich in erster Linie auf die Figur des Anasûrimbor Kellhus und seinen Aufstieg zum Krieger-Propheten. Er thematisiert dabei den Wunsch der Menschen nach Zugehörigkeit, nach Glauben und letztlich nach Hoffnung.

So spannend der Roman thematisch ist, so sehr zieht sich die Geschichte leider teilweise. Da helfen auch die gefühlt 50 Fraktionen innerhalb der fünf großen "Gruppen" nicht, wodurch leider regelmäßig der Überblick verloren geht.

Auch ist Bakker in diesem Buch nicht gut darin, die Bedeutung von Ereignissen zu "markieren". Zentrale Wendungen geschehen teilweise …

Struggling on in the war march

After setting up such an amazing world, I struggled with this sequel. The book this time focuses on the development of Kellhus, the warrior-prophet of the title, as he continues to exert his manipulative control on the Holy War. I mostly enjoyed his sections, and found the theology and philosophy interesting. Sadly, everyone else is just far too superficial, even more so when we lose much of the mage Achamian as a countering character. As we march across the continent lurching from battle to battle, anything which is fresh and pithy, and properly grim (there’s an excellent section on finding water), becomes ploughing on through a repetition of the same again and again, so there’s little that really advances the plot or keeps us immersed in the horror, it’s just the killing off another 30% of one or another army. I just seemed to be skimming a lot of text …

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The Warrior Prophet has more action and less wisdom than The Darkness that Comes Before, but I can still feal the influence of Dune on this author.

Anasûrimbor Kellhus and the Dûnyain have Bene Geserit like knowlage of history and influence on people and politics. He even has The Voice.

I think this would have made a better series than A Game of Thrones.

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Subjects

  • American Science Fiction And Fantasy
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Fantasy
  • Fantasy
  • Fantasy - Epic
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / General
  • Science Fiction - General
  • Courts and courtiers
  • Logicians
  • Monks