Declare Books Conducive To Beauty

Original Title:	Beauty
ISBN:	0553295276 (ISBN13: 9780553295276)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1992)

Beauty Paperback | Pages: 463 pages

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With the publication of The Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper came to be recognized as a major science fiction writer. Now the author of Raising the Stones and Grass -- a New York Times Notable Book and Hugo Award finalist -- turns to Beauty, a fantasy with a story that is more, much more than fable. Drawing on the wellspring of much-loved, well-remembered fairy tales, Tepper delivers a thought-provoking and finely crafted novel that thoroughly involves the reader in the life of one of the most captivating heroines in modern fantasy -- Beauty. On her sixteenth birthday Beauty is seemingly able to sidestep her aunt's curse. Instead she is transported to the future. Here begin her adventures as she travels magically back and forth in time to visit places both imaginary and real. Finally she comes to understand what has been her special gift to humanity all along. For in Beauty, there is beauty. And in beauty, magic. Without our enchanted places, humanity is no more than an upstart ape. And this, we realize, is why Beauty must be saved, both in the fantastical world of Tepper's novel and in the actual world in which we live

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Title	:	Beauty
Author	:	Sheri S. Tepper
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 463 pages
Published	:	December 23rd 2009 by Bantam Spectra (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Fairy Tales. Science Fiction Fantasy

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Ratings: 3.83 From 5357 Users | 382 Reviews

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This book is a big hot mess! I kept reading because it was such a train wreck, a sick sense of fasciation held my interest. The plot is ridiculous: Tepper throws countless fairy tales, Bible stories, and unrelated fiction into a single storyline. But instead of cleverly weaving together disparate elements, it feels disjointed, haphazard, and nonsensical. Her writing frequently throws us such delicious awfulness as "his eyes glittered with hectic abandon." On top of that, here are my two major

Part speculative fiction, part philosophy, part patchwork cosmology, Beauty is - intense. It chronicles the life of someone who starts out as a mistrusted halfbreed in an age that values genealogy, and who progresses through multiple worlds, back and forth in time, being entirely too curious about what makes her situation unique. Tepper manages to write realistic Sidhe and believable Bogles, despite the unlikelihood of her audience having any basis for comparison.The protagonist, named Beauty

Actual Rating: 3.5/3.75I have no idea what to rate this. I started off really liking it, then it lost me, then I liked it again. It's a mix of different genres/elements - history, fairy tales, time travel, faeries and magic - which I both liked and didn't like. Some good messages and themes, and it's well-written and definitely interesting enough to make me want to check out the author's other books. At the same time though I wasn't wholly invested in the protagonist's story and little things

I wasn't sure I was going to like this book based on what my husband had said about it (he already read it). It is definitely pro-environmental and has strong feminist tones! I really liked the way the story went by making Beauty 1/2 fairy. It also ties in other fairy tales besides Sleeping Beauty as well as time travelling. I really liked it more than I thought I would. Well worth the read!

About 100 pages into Beauty I wasn't sure whether I was really going to like the book, as it kept moving from subject to subject without staying long enough with each one to make it work. About 200 pages in, I was convinced the author had far too many ideas for her own good, and no idea of how to weave them together into a cohesive story. Despite my misgivings, though, I stuck with the book, and I'm glad I did, because the second half more than made up for the flaws of the first. I ended up

This has to be one of Ms. Tepper's better works. In too many of her books, we usually see some kind of weird deus ex machina or whatever thrown in (Family Tree, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, the Visitor) so I am pleased to say that this story is more coherent than these.Anyone familiar with Ms. Tepper should not be surprised at her inclusion of commentaries against this or that - Ms. Tepper is quite the feminist, and snarks against religion, violence, patriarchy, the abuse of the

I love fairy tales and especially those aimed at adults. Beauty definitely delivers this in spades. Not only does Beauty weave in elements of the classic Sleeping Beauty tale, it also touches on many others as well, Cinderella and Snow White to name two. Beauty is a fantasy, fairy-tale, science fiction mix with an unmistakable message about the future consequence of society turning its collective back on magic. Toward the end of the book, Tepper's Beauty character ponders on how people have