rsu@cbscc.UUCP (Rick Urban) (03/26/85)
Can Jerry Boyajian or anyone else give their opinion of this book by Stephen King (no spoilers, please, I'm waiting for its general release in 1987)? Thanks. Rick Urban ihnp4!cbscc!rsu
kalash%Berkeley@.ARPA (03/30/85)
From: unisoft!kalash@Berkeley Somebody asked for a review of Eyes of the Dragon. As I am one of the select many (~1500 people probably own the book right now) who has read the thing, I thought I'd give it all a spin. Eyes of the Dragon is Stephen Kings first "childrens" book. It is about a young prince falsely convicted of murdering his father, a very nasty wizard who set him up (his name is Flagg, but he bears little resemblence to the character in the Stand), and various and sundary players. As a straight novel, it suffers from being written as a childrens book. There are a number of simplistic explainations, and "wide eyed" descriptions, which slow down the books pace for adult readers. Also as with most childrens books, the people are mostly either good or evil with very few shades of grey. As a childrens book, it suffers from some adult concepts that would either confuse, or slow down the story. The king complains at one point of his impotence and how it effects his life and relations with his wife, and how he doesn't really like women. There are a couple of these concepts floating about which make this less than wonderful as a childrens book. As far as the story goes, while it is well written (as is most if not all of King's work) it is no great shakes. It is a fairly standard adventure yarn with most people living happily ever after, and there aren't any real surprises. I would generalyy reate the book at about a "B-" grade, a decent read, but no great shakes. I'm not at all sure 'tho that I would give it to any of my kids to read (even if I had any). Joe Kalash unisoft!kalash@berkeley ucbvax!unisoft!kalash