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A review by glenn_blake
The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany
3.0
As a fan of The Silmarillion, I also very much liked the lyrical and poetic style of Dunsany's "Gods of Pegana". I approached The Book of Wonder expecting more of the same. I was a little disappointed to find that this wasn't quite the case.
I would have been hard on this review and only given the book a 2.5, however "Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller", "How Nuth would have practised his art upon the Gnoles", "The Coronation of Mr Thomas Shap" and "The Wonderful Window" were the four tales out of seventeen that I thought were particularly imaginative, with satisfying endings. For the remaining other thirteen tales my main complaint was that the endings seemed abrupt, even for short stories of these very short lengths.
I would have been hard on this review and only given the book a 2.5, however "Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller", "How Nuth would have practised his art upon the Gnoles", "The Coronation of Mr Thomas Shap" and "The Wonderful Window" were the four tales out of seventeen that I thought were particularly imaginative, with satisfying endings. For the remaining other thirteen tales my main complaint was that the endings seemed abrupt, even for short stories of these very short lengths.