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Subject: The Princess of Birds
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 00:02:00 EDT
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Brief review: Hughart's _Princess_of_Birds_ is a real winner.  It is a 
tongue in cheek fantasy, set in China.  It's humour is broad in places
and fine in others.  The broad humor is tempered with a basic respect
for the characters: these are distinct people, although not all exactly
the sort you meet on the street every day.
    If you've tired of fantasies with badly concocted psuedo-Welsh names,
musclebound superknightly heroes, and a cast of ersatz Nazghul and 
counterfeit Luke Skywalkers, here is an highly original work.

					matt

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