![]() The story was marginally entertaining and it was at least a quick read, but even at that the plot seemed to drag on. When Chance discovers Paama has his power, he sets about trying to get it back. The Chaos Stick is stolen from Chance and given to a woman named Paama who has proven herself to be kind, patient, and impervious to the suggestions of the minor Trickster deities who sometimes inhabit the bodies of insects and stir up mischief whenever possible. For this reason, the other gods no longer trust him with the Chaos Stick, the instrument of chance to nudge events toward a certain probability. Over the years, he has watched as men have squandered second chances and made a mockery/waste of the gift that is life. The basic premise of the story is that the deity known as Chance has become hardened toward mankind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because I start to develop a Community's Jeff Winger like aversion to the feeling that someone's trying to teach me something-and I never learn anything! This didn't turn out to be as didactic as The Alchemist because it's more focused on the storytelling than on the lesson, but just waiting for that other moral-of-the-story shoe to fall was mentally exhausting. Ever since Paulo Coelho's New Agey-craptastic The Alchemist, me + fables = nervous twitch. What a lukewarm cup of "meh." After all of the stellar reviews, I just knew this was going to be ah-may-zing, but, alas, it's basically a fable. ![]()
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