The Prestige by Christopher Priest
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Book Summary Author: Christopher Priest Edition: Mass Market Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2006-10-03 ISBN: 0765356171 Number of pages: 368 Publisher: Tor Books |
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Book Reviews of the The Prestige
Customer Review: Good tribute to RLS, Poorly realized female characters
Summary: 3 Stars
Nothing to add to the other reviews in terms of plot critique other than the magic is just too Spontaneous Generation-ish (a pile of straw and dung turns into mice kind of thinking) and I wasn't willing to suspend my disbelief. I did very much like the descriptions of the principles of stage magic that one magician offered in his diary, and the whole treatment of self is very much like Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Who is "I" and what have "I" become?
However, the women in the book are cardboard cutouts, The Devoted Wife and The Scheming Mistress. (the modern woman is OK). I kept waiting for one of them to do something unexpected, but neither lady ever did. I look forward to reading more of Mr. Priest's books to see if he overcame this technical, stylistic, and most basic hurdle in character creation.