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A review by chrisiant
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
4.0
Yay Kipling. This is actually the first Kipling besides Just So Stories that I've read through. I have more to say about the format in which I read it (DailyLit) than the actually book, which was quirky and interesting. I'm already familiar with many of Kipling's poems that have been set to music, so it was nice to run across them in context. I'm generally in favor of narratives that are broken up by bits of song and verse (a la Tolkien and others).
I grew quite fond of Sir Richard and Sir Hugh, Parnesius and Pertinax. Dan and Una I appreciated primarily as vehicles for the story and not so much in and of themselves. Puck similarly, was a bit trite, but as a means of knitting together the other stories he functioned just fine.
I will definitely be doing more reading of Kipling - I like the feel of his narrative - it seems concise and feels like it moves along at a good clip, but at the same time it feels rich and textured and pleasantly dense.
I grew quite fond of Sir Richard and Sir Hugh, Parnesius and Pertinax. Dan and Una I appreciated primarily as vehicles for the story and not so much in and of themselves. Puck similarly, was a bit trite, but as a means of knitting together the other stories he functioned just fine.
I will definitely be doing more reading of Kipling - I like the feel of his narrative - it seems concise and feels like it moves along at a good clip, but at the same time it feels rich and textured and pleasantly dense.