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| Original Title: | Tam Lin |
| ISBN: | 014240652X (ISBN13: 9780142406526) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Thomas Lane |
| Setting: | Minnesota,1975(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (1992) |
Pamela Dean
Paperback | Pages: 468 pages Rating: 3.85 | 5381 Users | 538 Reviews
Details About Books Tam Lin
| Title | : | Tam Lin |
| Author | : | Pamela Dean |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 468 pages |
| Published | : | August 3rd 2006 by Firebird (first published January 1st 1991) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Fairy Tales. Young Adult. Urban Fantasy. Romance |
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In the ancient Scottish ballad Tam Lin, headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh . . . and then must battle the Queen of Faery for possession of her lover’s body and soul.In this version of Tam Lin Janet is a college student, "Carterhaugh" is Carter Hall at the university where her father teaches, and Tam Lin is a boy named Thomas Lane. The book is set against the backdrop of the early 1970s.
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Ratings: 3.85 From 5381 Users | 538 ReviewsJudgment About Books Tam Lin
This is a book I wish I could have liked. And yet don't feel bad at all about loathing. I think that describing one of the male protagonists as madly attractive and then spending much of the book having to imagine him (unironically) with billowing, ruffled front silk blouses was beyond my capabilities to suspend disbelief. Madly attractive and billowing silk blouses on an early 1970's college campus doesn't work for me. Especially with the mad quoting of great literature. Jennifer Crusie quotingSing it, Sandy.So, for those of you not in the know, Tam Lin is a Scottish ballad about the liberation of Tam Lin from his love and capture, the Queen of the Fairies. Oh, those pesky fairies again. Always getting involved in shit they shouldn't.Pamela Dean writes a contemporary version of that story. Reading it is kind of exhausting.Janet is a freshman at a small liberal arts college in the Midwest. Hey, I went to one of those too! Except I attended one in Missouri instead of Minnesota. There
A retelling of the 16th-century Scottish ballad by that name, set in a 1970s Liberal Arts college in Minnesota because every story must eventually be retold to be about American teenagers.I'm a big ballad nerd, so it was cool seeing how the novel fit into the story, but I have to admit, I really hated this book to begin with. The first few scene-setting chapters read like they were written expressly for the notional bookish 13-year-old girl, dreaming of college (and, in places, by her). Janet
homigawds... This book is a lot of work. I don't mind a lot of work reading, sometimes, but cripes, I honestly don't care what classes she takes each quarter. If it moved the plot, I might, but it doesn't. No. It doesn't.All the action(!) -- what little there is here, and by "action" I mean "plot" -- happens in the last 150 pages... which I've just reached.Why did I pick this up again? Oh yeah... recs. *headdesks*Update:DONE. Finally. *sighs deeply*Unfullfilling ending. Just. Ends. Gods. After
I tried really hard to enjoy this book, but my effort was in vain as I still found myself unbelievably frustrated with it. As a non-English major, and someone whose upbringing and science background gave a limited understanding of the so-called classics, I felt intimidated, and ignorant each and every time the characters spewed poetically about various authors and their works. On quite a few occasions, the references were to works/authors that I'd never heard of, or knew only in passing. Was it
I've read this book at least four times. It's one of my all-time favorites. When I went to college, I was very disappointed that not everyone ran around quoting Shakespeare and lived to read, as they do in this book. Also, my dorm was not haunted, which only made for more disappointment. Dean has created something wonderful here: a brilliant tapestry of the best of her college experience along with the best of Celtic folklore. A charming book, a fun book, a romantic book, a clever book, an
I really adored The Dubious Hills (review here), and I am sure I'll enjoy more stories set in that world. This version of Tam Lin, however, is not for me.It's really a story about college friendships and the college experience, with just the barest whiffs of magic around the edges, if you sniff very, very hard. I'm pretty committed to the Tam Lin-as-Tam Lin story, and here it seems incidental. The college scene is very authentic (the scene at the beginning where they're taking apart bunk beds
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