Teckla

Vlad Taltos, Book 3

De: Steven Brust

Narrado por: Bernard Setaro Clark

The third Vlad Taltos book represents a darker, more serious turn in the series. Vladimir Taltos is a short-lived, short-statured Easterner (what we would call a human) in a world mostly populated by the long-lived, extremely tall Dragaerans. He is also an assassin and petty crimelord. His lifestyle and career require some difficult moral choices. When his wife Cawti joins an uprising of Easterners and peasant Dragaerans (the Teckla of the title), it causes a severe strain in their marriage, and Vlad begins to question those choices.

©1987 Steven K. Z. Brust (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Intense Read

The subject matter of this book, an oppressed class of people fighting for their civil rights, makes this a very intense read. Be forewarned.

not the best book

for me . to much Marxism. relationship dynamics are wrong. way to much self pity. however. this is such a interesting world I can forgive quite a bit.

amazing

I enjoy this whole series. I read it when I was a kid and still love it as an adult

This used to be one of my least favorite Taltos books...

After Athyra, which still is my least favorite, I never really enjoyed Teckla. But I just have this a listen again -- maybe it's the third time in 20 years I've read (listened to) it -- and with the political climate, and perhaps a little of my own maturity, I have to say this is a much better story than I remember it being. The ideas being evaluated are complex and while occasionally the characters are a little archetypal, there's a lot of interesting discussion of politics and making the word in ones own righteous image. Definitely worth a re-read.

Every Draegara novel is a winner.

I like all the Taltos books. This is my 2nd time through. Most of how Steven wrote Vlad made sense, but I don't like how immature Vlad is portrayed with his wife. They both should've listened to Noishpa.