6/30/2023 0 Comments The owl service book![]() ![]() Preferably get it from a library not a bookshop, as you probably won't read it again. ![]() Not one of the best reads ever, but take a look anyway. It is supposed to make a picture of an owl if the pattern is drawn correctly, but however much I tried I could not make one (if you are going to illustrate a book like this do it right). I also have a problem with the illustration on page three which depicts one of the plates from the dinner service. ![]() I do not think this book deserves to be ranked up there with the Phantom Tollbooth, Thomasina and Charmed Life (other books in the "modern classics" range). The book was like a line of gunpowder: exciting and bright throughout but often sizzles out at the end. The publishers have named this book a "modern classic" and the snippets of reviews themselves claim the book "builds up tension and comes to wild release in the last few pages". My favourite of these events was during the storm when the plaster on the walls of the house starts to crack and reveals the portrait of a beautiful woman surrounded by flowers made of birds claws one of the most creepy parts of the book. A 50th Anniversary Edition featuring a new introduction by Philip Pullman, THE OWL SERVICE is an all-time classic, combining mystery, adventure, history and a complex set of human. ![]()
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