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1212. The forces of Christendom are on the march again. There is much to avenge. Twenty-five years ago, the Christian army lay slaughtered on the desolate plain of the Horns of Hattin. Mighty Saladin, ruler of the Moslem world, went on to capture Jerusalem, crush the Crusaders, and push back the remnants of the Latin empire to a thin line of threatened coastal forts. The Holy Land seemed lost. But now the Pope has called for crusade. Many take the cross for pilgrimage and battle. Among them is Otto, a young noble heading for the Holy Land in search of his vanished Hospitaller Knight father, and Brother Luke, a mysterious Franciscan on a mission of his own. And then there are the children, tens of thousands of them, pledged to recapture Jerusalem and find the True Cross, the holiest of relics lost to the forces of Islam. But what begins as a religious quest will turn into a harrowing nightmare of hardship and danger. For dangers press in and the way ahead is perilous. Some will not survive. What they seek is Truth. What they find is Hell.
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Scott Mcmurrain
reviewed Pilgrim on October 03, 2012
Pilgrim
I had big expectations about this book. The plot seemed interesting, the language exquisite, my favourite time-line, yadda yadda, puuuurrfect.
But seriously. Jackson has apparently never met a person under twenty years in his life, because his children talk like somebody with a Ph.D. in linguistics. All of them, all the time. I have a high respect for the author's vocabulary, it's magnificent, but it's magnificent for an epic poem or a discussion on Freud - not for a book in which the majority of characters are under ten. Even when the book is written for adult readers.
The other thing was his portrayal of good versus evil. There are no gray shades in Pilgrim; people are either absolutely good or messengers of hell. The outcome is clear from the beginning, the good will prevail, the baddies will suffer, etc etc. But people are never like that, and they weren't like that a thousand years ago either, I'm sure. The thirst for chaos is a bad excuse for the main antagonist, and revenge often has no believable cause in the others.
I stopped reading after a third of the book and just skipped to the end to see what happened - there was an unexpected twist which I liked and that's what the second star is for, but everything else was predictable. If this book was rewritten with characters with more depth and children who did not make lengthy speeches at all times instead of talking like human beings talk, then it could be a remarkable book, but alas, it is not. I admire the way Jackson spins his words and plays with the English language, but Pilgrim is not the right place for that kind of language - let children talk like children, or at least like average adults, and let adults talk like average adults, too.
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