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    The Legend of Broken

    Written by Caleb Carr

    Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds

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    The eagerly anticipated next novel from the bestselling author of The Alienist is available from Simon & Schuster Audio unabridged

    With the historical storytelling brilliance of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, the hugely bestselling author of The Alienist writes a bounding epic: The Legend of Broken is an action-packed, multi-charactered tale of a medieval clash of cultures.

    In Caleb Carr's fascinating tale of the kingdom of Broken, legend meets history, science defies all expectation, and one noble soldier struggles to save a fortress city besieged by enemies within and without.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateNov 27, 2012
    ISBN9781442359390
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    The Legend of Broken
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    Caleb Carr

    Caleb Carr is the critically acclaimed author of The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness, The Lessons of Terror, Killing Time, The Devil Soldier, The Italian Secretary, The Legend of Broken, and Surrender, New York. He has taught military history at Bard College, and worked extensively in film, television, and the theater. His military and political writings have appeared in numerous magazines and periodicals, among them The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in upstate New York.

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    • 3/5
      Interesting, but not great. I imagine the "story within the story" of the "discoverer" was intended to add some sense of mystery or drama, but it didn't do much for me. I felt kind of annoyed because I felt Carr was trying to trick me into believing it isn't fiction. I did like some of the military history footnotes, and I guess he was using the device as a way to make it ok to include those footnotes.
    • 3/5


      I wish I could have given this 2 1/2 stars. It's a really interesting and well-done exercise, complete with footnotes and all, of something like Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The actual story took a while to grow on me. By the time it was getting interesting, the book was almost over.

      I'm not sure if it was the subject matter or not, but it didn't grab me quite as much as The Alienist.
    • 3/5
      Quite a departure from Caleb Carr's usual, The Legend of Broken is a sprawling historical epic set in the mysterious Kingdom of Broken (located atop the mountain known as the Brocken, in central Germany) and its surrounding areas during the eighth century of the common era. The text is, ostensibly, an 18th-century translation of a much older manuscript, found by Carr among the papers of Edward Gibbon, along with correspondence between Gibbon and Edmund Burke (the latter urging Gibbon not to publish the manuscript). Gibbon's own extensive annotations, with additions by Carr, are included, and take up more than seventy pages at the end of the 650-page narrative.The tale itself takes a complex but somewhat boilerplate form, with two hostile neighboring kingdoms (Broken and the land of the Bane, a society made up largely of exiles from Broken and their descendants) about to face off in dramatic conflict as both blame the other for the appearance of a deadly plague. We come to get bits and pieces of the story from both sides, as the narrative alternates between the perspective of the commander of Broken's armed forces and a Bane foraging party. But of course, all is not what it seems in Broken, and a nefarious plot is afoot. To save the kingdom, and to prevent the slaughter of countless innocents, drastic measures will have to be taken ...Carr's characters are, by and large, one dimensional and undeveloped (you're either perfect or evil), but those he does devote a bit of attention to end up being written quite well. The story itself is so complex and difficult to follow, while also being rather a slow go, that it's quite easy to get bogged down in the details, and to miss some of the interesting commentary on linguistic development, the spread of scholarly ideas, technology, &c. that the book (and its footnotes) provide.It's a bit hard to know just what to make of this book. The framing device and scholarly apparatus appeal to me (though the notes get rather repetitive and sometimes don't really make a great deal of sense), and who doesn't love a good meaty epic tale complete with supernatural elements, weaselly political maneuvering, and a goodly helping of Greek fire? But I'm just not sure Carr pulled it off this time.