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The Tower of Geburah

1978John White

4.9/5

The Archives of Anthropos are essentially a poor imitation of The Chronicles of Narnia, originally written at the request of theologian John White's children for a story that was "just like Narnia."Unfortunately, while C.S. Lewis was a mythologist first and a theologian second, White is a theologian first and a mythologist somewhere down the line, and it shows. The books are decent allegory-fantasy, drawing on classical and biblical mythology - quest-based action adventure stories with good character arcs. But the allegory is rather too obvious, some of the names are a bit corny, and the setting doesn't quite convince.Don't misunderstand me - I enjoyed this series as a kid and read it through multiple times. But I re-read Narnia as an adult and I love it just as much - though perhaps for different reasons - as I did as when it was first read to me as a five-year-old.Goodreads lists the Tower of Geburah as #3 but, like the Narnia books, the Archives of Anthropos are best read in real-world publication order, rather than internal world-order. In this case that's 3, 4, 1, 2, all equally decent stories. 5 is fine, but I'd not suggest bothering with 6.
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