| Drinking Midnight Wine | 
 enlarge | Author: Simon R. Green
Publisher: Roc
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 767511
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0451459350
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780451459350
ASIN: 0451459350
Publication Date: July 1, 2003
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 Super Reader August 26, 2007
As it turns out, I had read this, just didn't remember the author.
A bloke working in an eclectic bookshop follows the wrong woman off the train, and ends up in Mysterie.
Angels, a low-rent version of Thor, Luna, Gaia, Nichols Hob the Serpent's Son and others are there to help and bedevil him.
A few names dropped from the Nightside, too, it seems, along with Hob.
Basically, he becomes an important mortal element in a struggle between Powers and Dominations as Green likes to call them.
Not up to par with the Nightside novels July 11, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to say that I've read lots of the stuff by Simon Green but this one was just not up to snuff. Unfortunately, I found myself getting bored with this one as the pacing is really slow until you're 1/2 way through the book. I thought it was still a fun read but it's just off. It seems like this was the transitional novel to get to the Nightside series. Some of the descriptions of the characters living in the other world become more fleshed out ideas in Nightside.
It's a decent read but I wouldn't be in too much of a rush.
 A lot of fun to read October 20, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
For those looking for heavier urban fantasy, please pick up Gaiman's "Neverwhere", which will sit more like a heavy meat and potatoes meal to the reader.
This is a lighthearted, thought-provoking, creamy and zippy concoction that is more like a light summer entree rather than a heavy winter meal.
I loved "Something from the Nightside" so much, I grabbed up all the Simon R. Green I could find, and so far my small library doesn't carry much, but I did find this book there. It was a blast! My husband zipped through it, then my best friend, and they wouldn't leave me alone until I had read it also, all within 2 days of me checking it out.
I enjoy most of the characters (Luna is particularly memorable), and I did not find it pat or cutesy at all. There are cute parts, and lots of parts that had all of us laughing aloud, which really makes me want to own all this man's books, but there is a lot to roll around your thoughts once you put the book down, as well. Especially as a budding novelist! :D
If you want intellectually heavy, go somewhere else. This may not be for you. I am an English teacher and not by any means an intellectual pygmy; I can read and understand heavy prose and epic poetry and write intelligent essays critiquing them. But when you want something to make you smile, laugh, and think thoughts that take you out of your everyday rut, I'd recommend Simon R. Green for the majority of people, especially for my friends and family.
Not Ripe Yet, Still a Bit Green July 25, 2005
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I like Green's baroque visual imagination-- his description of Angel would probably cause Lovecraft to chew up a copy of his "Collected Works" in envy. Not a squamous or rugous part in sight. But once Green has created these imaginative creatures he is not sure what to do with them other than have them pound someone into the ground or be pounded into the ground by another character.
The frame work of this book is familiar-- think A Fish Dinner in Memizon by E. R. Eddison and all of the other more modern authors mentioned by the other reviewers-- and Green draws on British legend and history in a way that is vaguely reminiscent of a lot of British writers. But the mind does tend to wonder a bit between acts of mayhem. And isn't the conclusion just a bit too pat?
No matter, this one is worth a read and maybe if you are intrigued there is a whole world of British fantasy to explore that is not LotR or Harry Potter.
Average Joe visits extraordinary place February 5, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Simon Green's "Drinking Midnight Wine" is a fun read. It is about a regular guy who takes a trip, via a portal to a parallel Earth, into a land of magic. This fast-moving story covers the basics; love, , wimp-become-hero, good-vs-evil, descendants of Norse gods, etc. Green spins an interesting version of this old, yet popular concept. His use of beings from 'our' mythology enables the reader to readily identify with many of his characters. I enjoyed reading it.
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