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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
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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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| 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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Ratings: 3.85 From 5381 Users | 538 ReviewsJudge Out Of 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 quoting
I have no idea what to make of this. Did I like it? I don't even know.(five months later) I DECLARE REVIEW AMNESTY. And I still don't even know if I liked it.
Oh Lordy. I have such polarizing internal reactions to this book. Two sides of me are shouting at each other, just as passionately, and one side wants me to give it 5 stars and put it in my Favorites shelf, and one side wants me to give it 1 star and file it under Actual Trash. Part of me really feels this book and these character. They are NERDS. Not just kind of nerds, I mean SERIOUS nerds. They dicker back and forth about the subtext about Shakespeare or Greek philosophy or postmodernist
I suppose there are several faults with Tam Lin. One would be justified, I believe, in saying that the book is over long and that at times the talk about relationships isn't very adult. In many ways, however, this book is really for those who love literature as well as the story of "Tam Lin" that the novel is based on.In the original story that this novel is based on, an ordinary girl wins back her lover from the queen of faerie. This is what this novel is supposed to be about. If the characters
If you can get over the fact that this is some sort of retrospective paean to Carleton College and the author peggy sue's (whatever that phrase is) herself on to the protagonist, you'll enjoy the book. It's somewhat irritating in that everyone in the book is incredibly boring (and the book largely seems to be about how people in college get into really boring sexual relationships but they're having SEX, so apparently it's super adult and interesting) but then after 8000 pages, all the relevant
Sing 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
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