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Pages of Pain (Planescape) | 
 enlarge | Author: Troy Denning
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Category: Book
List Price: $5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 980332
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.3 x 1
ISBN: 0786906715
EAN: 9780786906710
ASIN: 0786906715
Publication Date: December 1997
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Condition: Used book in good condition. #EB11001
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Product Description
The Lady of Pain, vigilant defender of Sigil, keeps an ongoing memoir of her existence. Here, in her own words, is her eternal story. Interspersed with these memoir passages is a story that takes plae in the maze where threats to Sigil are incarcerated for all eternity.
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 good for planars and primes alike. December 8, 2007
I was surprised by how well the book was written, especially when written from the Lady of Pain's perspective. My one complaint is that he didn't quite get the mood and the speech of Planescape as well as I'd have liked. I suppose I've played too much Planescape: Torment, which would make anything seem inferior. Other than that, I was thoroughly pleased with this book, and I would recommend it to both those who already know the setting and those who don't.
 Possibly the Greatest Headache Inducing Piece of Tripe Ever December 2, 2005
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
Its all in the title; the real 'pain' was actually reading the dreaded item.
Do not misinterpret me, for I am usually a fan of Denning's work (especially the Twilight Giants Trilogy) but there is no excuse for mentally torturing his readers as if he were some creative sadist wreaking havoc with the literate populace at large.
 Great book! August 6, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This has to be one of the best books I've read in recent memory. Even without a typical plot, the book continually drives the reader onward. I longed for satisfactory chapter endings where I could put the book down for awhile, but they were few and far between. Too often, I found myself unable to stop and forced onto the next chapter.
The reader goes through several levels of revelations, even as the characters themselves do. While some of the characters seem one-dimensional superficially, if that is the case, why does your heart tug so when the full trajedy of this book is visited upon them?
The treatment of the Lady of Pain herself is wonderful. She is the darkest side of the city of Sigil personified, and she forms the entire emotional tone of the novel. As the very embodiment of suffering and pain, we expect to find the evil delight that fills her, but has ever such a loathsome villain raised such empathy? Gollumn was surely deserving of pity, but not the Lady of Pain who revels in her cruelty, who believes it an actual necessity. Yet her longing, as is that of every character in this novel, is palpable and undeniably human.
This is primarily an emotional maze the characters find themselves lost in, and those seeking a hack n slash adventure should look elsewhere, but those who remember that it's role-playing and not roll-playing, should definitely check this out.
 Mind numbing July 26, 2004
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was so excited that a novel in the Planescape setting finally arrived (I read this book years ago), and so incredibly disappointed with the story. This book is boring. About a third of the way through it began to test my willpower. The only reason I finished this novel was for closure. The characters never really seem to develop, there is a very weak attempt at a romantic plot, and the prose is flat out boring. I've never read any Troy Denning books before this one, and now I specifically avoid them.
A worthy successor to the classic Theseus January 31, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I think that if one simply removed the planescape logo and offered this as the Modern Theseus, it would have been more widely read. This is an amazing book. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a classic, but rather a modern myth for modern times. The story's narration was excellent, and the ending wasn't necessarily shocking and instead more akin to a tragedy in which you know what will happen but are enthralled anyway.
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