Book Description
A stunning, heart-pounding, journey into the lost world of the Pharaohs.
Wilbur Smith has earned international acclaim for his bestselling River God, The Seventh Scroll, and Warlock. Now, the unrivalled master of adventure returns with the eagerly awaited sequel to his thrilling Egyptian series with his most fantastic story yet. The Quest continues the story of the Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the gods and a master of magic and the supernatural.
Egypt has been struck by a series of terrible plagues, killing its crops and crippling its people. Then the ultimate disaster befalls the kingdom. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up.
Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths of Africa, from where the mighty river springs. In desperation the Pharaoh sends Taita, the only man who might be able to find his way through the hazardous territory to the source of the Nile and discover the cause of all their woes. But not even Taita can have any idea of what a terrible enemy waits in ambush in those dark lands at the end of their world.
No other author can conjure up the violence and mystery of Ancient Egypt like Wilbur Smith. The Quest marks his stirring return to the acclaimed series and proves once again why fans such as Stephen King praise him as the world’s “best historical novelist.”
Customer Reviews:
Not typical.......2007-10-11
Wilbur Smith is one of my all time favorite authors yet this particular work is not characteristic of his suspense filled thrillers with their characteristic conquest of the hero over insurmountable circumstances. It deals with the supernatural, unwieldy names, and a hard to follow story line. It is the first of his books that I have found that I can easily put down, and it will probably be his only book that I have not finished.
Severely disappointing........2007-10-02
Smith has taken one of the most fascinating characters in popular literature and turned him into...a bore? I never thought it could happen, but a hundred pages into a Wilber Smith book I've put it down and walked away.
Stunning.......2007-09-24
I never thought of Wilbur Smith as one who wrote "he took her books", you know, that ones with Fabio on the cover. And I really don't car for those, at least on a regular basis. But WOW, he sucked me in with his normal STUNNING imagery that makes me want to got to Africa and see all the places he describes, then he entralled me with the final battle of Eos and Taita.
This new egypt book is great along with his other egyption works.
Big letdown.......2007-09-12
Spoiler alert!
I've read quite a few of Smith's books, and all of his Taita novels. I loved "River God" and "Warlock", and had high expectations for this book. This book disappoints me in so many ways I don't even know where to begin. First off, Smith pulls the whole "magic" thing waaay to far. In "Warlock" it was fantastic, but still believable in some way. Not so here. What really puzzled my, by the way, is that after Taita becomes "the most powerful man in the world" he still has to use a sword to fight off his enemies. And this affair with re-born Lostris. What the hell is that. Gave me some very bad associations indeed. If you read the book I'm sure you know what I mean.
Dont't buy it, pretend it doesn't excist.
Smith - Re-read River God!.......2007-09-11
This novel was awful. I was so excited to see another Taita book! What a let-down. In fact, I re-read River God and Warlock just to prepare. Continuity was a HUGE problem. Taita's original character would never has behaved this way - lusting after a child. Who is this Fenn anyway? Lostris' baby name was Lanata. She had black hair, not blonde. She never had ridden a horse, as in Taita's dream - it would have been completely out of the question. Just stupid.
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- The wonderful Taita has lost his charm
- "Warlock" as a sequel to "River God."
- Intense
- Great fun!
- AN OVERALL SUCCESS BY SMITH
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Warlock: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
Wilbur Smith
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Book Description
One of the world's most acclaimed adventure writers returns to the world of ancient Egypt with the stunning sequel to the New York Times bestselling River God. In the wake of a sixty-year war over the reign of the kingdoms of Egypt, two young pharaohs have risen to claim power, but only one can succeed, deciding the fate of his empire forever...
The mission of Prince Nefer, rightful heir to the throne, is to rebuild a magnificent kingdom in the stark and tumbled ruins of the embattled city of Gallala. The desire of Lord Naja is to destroy his rival and rule the land with unholy supremacy. But Nefer has on his side the warlock Taita, a matchless ally and legendary priest of notorious powers...
To see their dream come true, Nefer and Taita must stay one step ahead of the depraved assassin, survive the tortuous shadow of her ever-pursuing armies, and outwit the shocking betrayals of is own flesh and blood. As Nefer's courage increases, and as Taita's magic grows more beguiling, so grows stronger the power of their tireless enemies....
Now, with the threat of tyranny and blood thundering closer and closer toward the vulnerable gates of Gallala, the ultimate battle for Egypt will begin...
Customer Reviews:
The wonderful Taita has lost his charm.......2007-10-03
I've read Wilbur Smith's novels, "River God" and "The Seventh Scroll", and although I thought both went on too long and tried to do too much, I loved them for their originality and the excellent drawing of the principal character, the eunuch Taita.
In Warlock, as in the two "Taita" novels mentioned above, Smith again tries to bite off just a smidge too much scope but where the earlier stories were so strong I found myself able to overlook this flaw, now the novelty of the setting has worn off and this time the characterization is less satisfying - much like Hollywood sequels that fail to measure up to the original films because they slavishly try to mimic the elements that made the original a success.
Additionally (regrettably), Warlock grants POV's (points of view) to a veritable slew of characters, and the resulting stew ends up as a multitude of mid-paragraph POV swaps, pat dialogue, and thin characters. There's Taita, of course, but I much preferred him as the egotistical, lustful-but-incapable, boasting genius in River God and Seventh Scroll. There, his flaws glared but you couldn't help but love him. Here, he is boringly perfect no matter who or what the opposition.
Of the others, Young pharaoh Nefer is perhaps the most rounded. He experiences setbacks and tries harder the next time. Although we never really know him well enough to make the transfer into his skin, his character arc rings true as he grows toward manhood. Less convincing are the shallowly drawn love interests and the two bad guys. Between the antagonists they don't do a single redeeming thing in the entire story. Sorry, but I've come to like characters with a little depth, and here there isn't much to enjoy.
To his credit, what Smith does give is a strongly imagined story painted in broad, colorful strokes. Smith is expert at setting the scene and Warlock holds the reader while trying hard to exploit the presumed familiarity of the reader with Taita. Sorry, it just doesn't convince. The plot is convoluted enough, but each "homestretch" is easily predictable, and I guess the broad strokes are to be expected when the writer is cranking out a 650 page novel every year.
In my experience with his works, Wilbur Smith is best when he uses his rich imagination to tackle an entirely new theme with fresh characters and an exciting original hook. The Courtney's come to mind. The initial novels were by far the best of the lot. Of course, as an author myself, I know starting fresh is also the most difficult way to write, and not the kind of thing that lends itself to the one-a-year pace this author has been keeping of late.
In the end, I'm still a fan. I'll be reading the next one, and the one after that.
If Wilbur Smith lived on the great lakes, he'd have written "The Secret Ever Keeps". He lives in Africa, so I had to do it for him. If you like Wilbur Smith, you'll love "The Secret Ever Keeps". Here's the Amazon page. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601640048/ref=cm_arms_pdp_dp/104-6302050-9055104
"Warlock" as a sequel to "River God." .......2007-06-08
In "Warlock," Wilbur Smith demonstrates his masterful handling of obtuse materials with excitement, clarity and "page-turning" skills.
My only regret -- as a long-time reader of Smith's books -- is his jumping some thirty years from "River God" to "Warlock," leaving the years of the young pharoah's Egyptian leadership untouched. This leaves space for another story of intrigue and mayhem leading up to "Warlock." And, of course, "Warlock" leaves the door open for another follow-on sequel as well. I will be lookling forward to Smith's filling-in both gaps . . . and soon.
Intense.......2007-05-13
This was an awesome book! I want to read more from this author!!!
Great fun!.......2007-02-14
Even though it's not as good as "River God", This book is absolutely impossible to put down.
AN OVERALL SUCCESS BY SMITH.......2005-12-07
I've tried some of Smith's other books and ... I must say his books of more ancient history settings are by far his best... RIVER GOD is one of the best books I have ever read and listened to... this sequel, WORLOCK, seems to be generally historically accurate as to the events of the time .... there are some glaring gaps between the Tita which ended River God and the one who begins worlock ... and the author doesn't really fill in those gaps .... also, the ending main character of the River God.... is given fairly short shriff here.... and the story is moved onto the next generation without much fanfare or discussion .....
Nevertheless,...... this is still a great stand alone book and a welcome sequel to River God ....
HALE TITA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Book Description
Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American fiction.
"Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national Camelot: a never-never land where American virtues are embodied in the Earps, and the opposite evils in the Clanton gang; where the confrontation at the OK Corral takes on some of the dry purity of the Arthurian joust. Oakley Hall, in his very fine novel Warlock has restored to the myth of Tombstone its full, mortal, blooded humanity. Wyatt Earp is transmogrified into a gunfighter named Blaisdell who . . . is summoned to the embattled town of Warlock by a committee of nervous citizens expressly to be a hero, but finds that he cannot, at last, live up to his image; that there is a flaw not only in him, but also, we feel, in the entire set of assumptions that have allowed the image to exist. . . . Before the agonized epic of Warlock is over with—the rebellion of the proto-Wobblies working in the mines, the struggling for political control of the area, the gunfighting, mob violence, the personal crises of those in power—the collective awareness that is Warlock must face its own inescapable Horror: that what is called society, with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh and can be snuffed out and assimilated back into the desert as easily as a corpse can. It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes Warlock one of our best American novels. For we are a nation that can, many of us, toss with all aplomb our candy wrapper into the Grand Canyon itself, snap a color shot and drive away; and we need voices like Oakley Hall's to remind us how far that piece of paper, still fluttering brightly behind us, has to fall." —Thomas Pynchon
Customer Reviews:
4 and 1/2 stars, actually........2007-06-12
back in 1958 it seems that an excellent book like this could actually be a finalist for the pulitzer prize (which this was). nowadays, gender and racial political correctness would put a squash to any such justice. oh, well. anyway, i have not consumed a lot of westerns in my reading days. 9 of them, if i have counted correctly. "warlock," by oakley hall, is my 2nd favorite of the lot (1st place going to "true grit," by charles portis). mr hall's book is a vastly superior reading experience than cormac mccarthy's "blood meridian," which has been touted by many as the best western out there. "warlock" embraces both the cliches of the western and the prototypes of its characters, while at the same time being anti-cliche and turning prototypes on their heads. how can this be? i don't know. it just is. i'm not smart enough to figure out or put into words the whys and the hows. here's my advice: read the thing.
More than it seems, as magical as the title.......2006-09-27
Like Lonesome Dove and Deadwood, Warlock takes the western genre and refuses all the cliches, creating the possibility of actually understanding history in the terms of men, women, their frailties, and the power of the land. It goes beneath the obvious surfaces, reweaves actual history, and adds a level of writing expertise that makes it an American classic along the lines of what Hawthorne does to the Gothic in The Scarlet Letter. I couldn't put it down. In it, you see the roots of McMurtry's work and Deadwood, and even intersections with John Ford. For those who love the Western, you must read it. For those, like Pynchon, who want to groove on characters, sentences and a fictional world made vivid and compelling, check it out. A wonderful, satisfying and heartbreaking read.
maize.......2006-09-16
Page 408 of Warlock contains the following:
"Men are like corn growing. The sun burns them up and the rain washes them out and the winter freezes them, and the cavalry tramps them down, but somehow they keep growing. And none of it matters a damn so long as the whisky holds out."
I don't usually read books that talk about whisky and cavalry, but this one was really good. Although a lot of the writing is like the quote above, the plot is a fairly sophisticated examination of the practical complexities of human morality. At first glance, the two main characters seem to be from the wild west boilerplate, one good guy and one bad guy. But the good and the bad are close friends, and they actually identify with each other qutie a bit. There's also an ugly guy who turns out to be the closest thing the book has to a hero. In contrast to the standard cowboy-movie theme, the characters struggle with the difficulties of figuring out what it would even mean to be good, bad, or ugly in a place that has no real laws and exists permanently on the brink of extinction. Apparently the book was made into a movie, but I would bet that it didn't translate well.
He's Still Alive! Find! And Bestow Money/Awards Upon!.......2006-07-29
NYRB remains one of the few companies I will buy books from directly instead of used online- and that's because they put out titles like this. Anyone looking for the core text of shows like Deadwood, Rome, even the Sopranos, need look no further than Oakley Hall's imaginative way with the character driven plot and then, lo and behold, you realize everyone's cribbing from Hall! Ok, of course not point by point, but this book is a masterpiece of interlaced action and rumination, except the rumination slowly goes off course, becomes too self assured, and ultimately reveals said ruminator's short comings when compared with what's happening on the ground and the actual facts of the mattter. And all of this intentionaly done! And done for no other purpose than to please and entertain the reader! Oakley Hall loves you and he loves America! Stick with this book. If it at first it seems too epistolary, have faith, it hardens, it becomes concrete and third person. And yes it is even stupidly moving, in the best tradition of the Americas, and it will make you want to be a better person, while at the same time revealing what a chump you are for even worrying about yourself, when your fellow man stands apart in need.
Special note, I have no idea what Robert Stone's intro really has to do with the book itself or really anything, but it sounds like something a Dog Soldiers character would have come up with so that's kind of neat.
Thanks Thomas Pynchon For Suggesting This Great Book.......2006-01-13
I was googling for info on the interesting and enigmatic Thomas Pynchon recently, when I came to find out that this book I had never heard of: "Warlock" by Oakley Hall was one of his all-time favorites. As luck would have it, I found an e-bay auction about to expire with a first edition hardcover copy of the title and snapped it up as quickly as I could. The surprises which come from a sense of adventure in book choices are one of the great pleasures of my life. I have now read this book and can say in all honesty that it was one of the most powerfully told, beautifully rendered, exquisitely crafted books to land on my lap in my recent reading life. The fact that it's a "Western" put me off before I started, but that feeling flew out the saloon doors instantly upon meeting the book's intriguing cast of characters, people who are forced to face their fondest hopes and most terrifying fears in their struggle for justice and a peaceful future for the town of Warlock. My highest recommendation.
Book Description
John Lundgren, a.k.a. Warlock, is an unemployment foundation executive whose life is about to become unhinged. After surviving a midlife crisis, Warlock finally decides to get a job. He soon discovers, however, that his new boss, Dr. Rabun, is no less evil to Professor Moriarty. Hired to troubleshoot for the doctor, Warlock himself battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan while also spying on his employer's wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West. A comedy with one foot in the abyss, Warlock is the singular literary entertainment from an American master.
Customer Reviews:
Things that make you go hmmmm.......2006-07-29
JH is apparently the bard of Michigan and having grown up there I was of course interested. Facts: Funny, fast paced, very sharply written. Facts the writer would prefer avoiding: Frankly a little aimless, a little "Hey I just thought this up maybe it will work in my book," and, most unfortunately, far too "a very smart man wrote this, much smarter than the protagonist of course, but still prey to his vanities and foibles and shortcoming, though also possessed of his strange charm and way with the ladies, and even if he does not really resemble the author perfectly the protagonist certainly at heart would in the end render the same judgement upon the world and have the same conversation with you about it as the author, only the author would have a lot more game and would not be so needy," which is a sad symptom for a book to exhibit, if a common one, alas.
That said: it's funny, as I mentioned, and the prose is sharp, but ultimately it leaves you thinking, mr. harrison, drop the charade and give me the lecture on the meaning of life that you are obviously dying to provide.
Funny, but with Flaws.......2005-10-06
"Warlock" by Jim Harrison follows Johnny Lundgren, a.k.a Warlock, an unemployed man who lives rather aimlessly with his wife Diana after losing his job. Warlock and Diana have an interesting marriage, not exactly bad, not exactly good. Warlock cheats on Diana, and Diana cheats on Warlock. Despite this, Warlock and Diana have the potential to be a really good couple.
Warlock lives in a fantasy world, he sees the world through rose-colored glasses and it's very entertaining to see his constant sexual experiences written in such interesting terms, from Patty, a unemployment agent who smells like pee, to Aurora a definite player, and who plays Warlock like a ukelele.
Diana suggests that Warlock get a job when she's worried that he's become depressed. She gets him an interview with the eccentric Dr. Rabun, and ends up looking at trees in the Upper Peninsula.
This story is an interesting one, it's very funny, just with Warlock's fantasies, but there seems to be a weakness in character with this book. I would suggest you read it, if you aren't faint of heart.
Entertaining.......2005-08-05
This book is quite different from his later works, but very entertaining. Although I like his later books they sometimes fall into political corectedness. This book cannot be called politically correct by any means.
Thoroughly entertaining!.......1999-01-15
This book is less philosophical than many of Harrison's works. The main character is a hilarious buffoon that had me cracking up throughout, though I thought the beginning was pretty slow. Very high in entertainment value, with the usual J. Harrison sex, but more of it. Keep it in the bathroom when you're finished and leaf through it for laughs now and then!
Customer Reviews:
Not their best work.......2007-08-25
Both Roy Thomas and Gil Kane have done some wonderful work. But this is not either creaters best. I vaguely remembered this title from the 70s, and wanted to have a look a this collection. I was pretty disappointed. The SciFi-ish story is not very original; mostly culled from The Island of Doctor Moreau. The Gil Kane issues here are ok... tho, the last few issues are another lesser artist. For Warlock fans only.
Warlock Masterwork is awesome.......2007-08-08
The book came in very good condition and arrived promptly. I'm very pleased with the service. I bought the first issue of "The Power of Warlock" back in 1975. This masterwork is excellent.
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- Prime Norton Stories
- The Empress of Science Fantasy/Fiction Rules Again
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Warlock
Andre Norton
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Prime Norton Stories.......2002-12-10
Warlock is a compilation of three novels -- Storm Over Warlock, Ordeal in Otherwhere, Forerunner Foray -- which have long been out a print in hardbound form, although frequently reprinted as paperbacks.
These novels have the signature characteristics of the early Norton stories: courageous young persons coping with adversity on their own. Her science fiction stories often added aliens and animals, telepathy and other psionic powers, the Thieves' Guild and the Patrol, and refugee survivors from interstellar wars, all of which are found in these novels.
Storm Over Warlock is the story of Shann Lantree, a contract laborer from the Dumps of Tyr, who is working on Warlock for the Terran Survey Corps. When Throgs attack the camp, he escapes with a pair of mutant wolverines. Later, he finds Ragnar Thorvald, the expedition leader, who had been away, but returned to Warlock only to be shot down by the Throgs. Lantree and Thorvald raid the Throg-occupied Survey camp for equipment and supplies and then head off to find the natives. The natives, however, do not want to be found and have a way of getting into people's head and making them do things against their will.
Ordeal in Otherwhere is about Charis Nordholm, a virtual slave of an illegal trader, Jagan. She has been acquired to act as liaison with the natives on Warlock, for the planet is a matriarchy. The female Wyverns are scaly and saurian, but have great psionic powers. They help Charis to escape from Jagan, provide her with a disk of power, and teach her some basic psionic skills, including telepathy and teleportation. On an impulse, she teleports to Jagan's camp site and finds it has been raided by an unknown force. She is discovered there by Shann Lantree, who is now a cadet in the Survey Corps. They pool their knowledge and decide that the male Wyverns, who have no psionic powers, are rising up against the matriarchy. Moreover, offworlder are using a psionic nullifier to block the matriarchs' power.
Forerunner Foray is about Ziantha, a sensitive from the Dipple who has been trained by the Thieves' Guild. She finds a compelling object during a foray into the treasure trove of High Lord Jacundus and develops a psychic tie with it. Her mistress, Yasa, a Salarika, and Ogan, a renegade parapsychologist, discover that the object is of Forerunner origin and is highly charged with psychic energy. They organize an expedition to discover its origins. On Wayfarer, they discover that the object has come from the tomb of Turan. Using her mind seach abilities, Ziantha guides them to the tomb, but is overwhelmed by the memories in the object. She awakes in the body of Vintra, war-captive of Turan, and Turan is occupied by someone else's mind.
Forerunner Foray is not about Warlock, per se, but reminders of Warlock and the Wyverns pop up throughout the novel. These stories were written during one of the most productive periods of Andre Norton's career. During this time, she wrote the first 12 Witch World stories, the first 4 Time Traders stories, the Magic series for younger children and many others. She also co-edited the Gates To Tomorrow anthology for young people. Although still ignored by the critics, she began to attract wider notice among the fans, not only for her juveniles, but also for her adult fantasies.
Warlock is recommended for all Andre Norton fans and anyone who likes stories about young people, and their animal friends, successfully coping with a hostile environment and even more hostile sentients.
The Empress of Science Fantasy/Fiction Rules Again.......2002-02-14
Andre Norton, the Grande Dame of Science Fantasy, the unparalled story teller, the most politically ignored science fiction writer has colleted together three of her most imaginative and thrilling tales. Long before the "Pop" culture and "New Wave" she was relating para-psycholobical and extra-terrestial concepts to the exploits of the most characterologically developed humans, aliens and animals. Her imagination is so expertly prsented thatt the reader will wonder whether the stories might nnot be real. Excitement on every page, from the first to the very last; an ability which few other authors have mastered. (And personally, she is a wonderfully kind and considerate woman.)
What a Pleasure to See Old Friends Back in Print Again.......2002-02-08
The first book is Storm Over Warlock. The lead character, Shann Lantee, is the lowest ranking member of a survey team. When the team is attacked he escapes with two trained wolverines into the wilderness that is Warlock where he discovers the race of Wyvern who excel in illusions.
Ordeal in Otherwhere was Andre Norton's first juvenile where the the lead character was female. I understand her publisher was dubious about the idea. He shouldn't have been-- there was a population of readers who was ready to share the adventures of her heroine.
Brought to Warlock as a slave to communicate with the Wyvern who will not deal with men, Charis Nordholme finds herself stranded. However, there is more than surviving in a low tech world to worry about. The Wyverns, the warlock natives, are undergoing social unrest and a questioning of their matriarchal values as the Wyvern males attempt to throw off the control of the Wyvern matriachs.
One of Norton's enduring themes-- the ills of polarization of a society and the strength to be found in pulling together rather than pulling against one another, is worked out in these two books. The Wyverns, because of inequities in their society. have opened the door to greedy offworld interests, who definitely do not have the good of the Wvyerns at heart.
Forerunner Foray only has a tangential connection to the first two novels. It was published about ten years later, but it is still an entertaining book about Ziantho, an employee of the Thieve's Guild, who during a covert raid stumbles onto a Forerunner gem which she is mysteriously drawn to, as she is drawn to the esper, Ris Lantree, who "hears" her first attempt to discover the secret of the gem by mental power.
The gem is a focus of power belonging to a long dead race and they find themselves fleeing across space and time as they follow the history of the gem back to it's beginning. Altogether a darker book, but well worth reading.
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- Much better than the movie...
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- Not what I was expecting
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The Covenant
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It's summertime. Kids go off to camp to learn, grow, and play. However, when 13-year-olds Caleb, Pogue, Reid, and Miller's parents send them to Camp Iwahanee for the summer, it isn't for bonfires and canoeing. The boys discover they're next in line to become the Covenant, the most powerful Warlocks in the world. Unfortunately, 13-year-old boys with unlimited powers are bound to experiment. Four years later, when an evil haunts their old campground, the Covenant fears their childhood mistakes have come back... to haunt them.
Customer Reviews:
Much better than the movie..........2007-08-14
I picked up this comic hoping that it would clear up some of the hanging plot threads from the movie, or at least be better than the movie. I was not dissapointed. The movie pretty much only resembled the comic in name & characters. Chase & Sarah were characters exclusive to the movie. Even the storyline was started from scratch. Sony has said that while this comic was put out as a promotional piece, it has nothing to do with the movie & is an individual story of it's own.
The comic's storyline starts with four young children (Pogue, Miller, Reid, & Caleb) heading off for a summer at camp. While they are there they are terrorized by one of the councelors, Jambo & discover that they are descendants of a legendary group of warlocks. They had no previous knowledge of this, despite their teacher (Twoberry) claiming that their fathers went through the same things when they were kids. The children use their powers to punish Jambo by giving him the image of the camp's resident monster, the Woods Hole Warlock. Flash forward to their teen years & the four have to return to the summer camp in order to stop a menace that is mysteriously sucking the souls out of a few of the town's occupants. Once there they run into an old camp buddy & find that nothing is as it seems.
Now the only thing that kept me from taking this book seriously at times was how it threw the image of the pentagram around. It is randomly inserted into the comic & the artist can't decide whether he wants it to be inverted (evil) or right side up (good). It's actually ironically done, since the first lines of the comic are about how overused & overmarketed the pentagram has become. There is often no explanation of why the pentagram was being used (or by whom). I assume that the inverted pentagram was to represent it being used by the "bad" character of the book, but since there is no explanation I'm not sure whether to blame it on a storyline oversight or the artist's mis-education. This kept me from seeing the comic as anything other than a good piece of marketing fluff.
compleatly awsome.......2007-05-13
This was the best graphic novel i have read so far. If you have ssen the movie the book fills in a lot of the blanks of the movie.
Not what I was expecting.......2007-01-05
When I purchased the book, I was expecting a paperback not a graphic novel. It was a good graphic novel but not what I thought I ordered.
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- 3 stars, plus one for nostalgia.
- One of Stasheff's best
- A long time favorite
- Excellent blend of fantasy and sci-fi
- Weak plot, poor attempt at been homorous
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The Warlock in Spite of Himself (The Warlock Series)
Cristopher Stasheff
Manufacturer: Ace Trade
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Book Description
Back in Print: the novel that launched the epic Warlock series.
In an interstellar romp that proves science and sorcery can mix, only hard-headed realist Rod Gallowglass can save the people of Gramarye from their doom by becoming--The Warlock in Spite of Himself--if only he believed in magic.
Customer Reviews:
3 stars, plus one for nostalgia........2006-08-27
Like many current readers of The Warlock In Spite of Himself, I had my first encounter with the series a long time ago. Stasheff and Rod Gallowglass were old early teenage favorites, discovered by me when the book was reprinted in 1982.
It makes for an interesting re-read. Fess is nearly as entertaining as a character as he was all those years ago. As a female reader, the female characters make me shudder-- worth remembering that the book was written in 1969. True to the time, a liberated woman was sexually liberated-- not any good at leading things. Stasheff's bone-headed Catharine is simply cringeworthy.
An urbane galactic traveller discovers a planet of lost colonists apparently stuck at a medieval period. His situation as explorer gets very interesting indeed when he discovers that this planet's witches can actually do magic...
I am no longer sure that I would recommend this book for a younger reader. Its biggest appeal is probably to folks like myself-- people looking for nostalgia of books that we read as teenagers. Still good for that purpose, and worth re-reading.
One of Stasheff's best.......2006-03-03
Put it on the same shelf as "Her Majesty's Wizard". The series probably ran too long, but the first couple in this series were great!
A long time favorite.......2005-06-06
I picked up this book in the early 80's and since then, has always held a special place in my heart. I really enjoyed Rod's self-depracating humor and the book's ability to blend fantasy and sci-fi into a cohesive whole.
In later novels in this series, I felt Rod was far too angry at times, since it was his rage that helped fuel his magic, but in the first novel, we don't really see that. What we do see is a warm tale, an author's deft touch, and a book that deserves to be in print for over 35 years.
Excellent blend of fantasy and sci-fi.......2004-08-13
What a treat this book was. I picked it up in a used bookstore and can't wait to delve into the rest of Stasheff's books.
The hero Rod Gallowglass is one of the most enjoyable heroes I have read in a long time. His adventures on a world where elves and magic exist are one of a kind. When the book started I thought I misread the back of the book and was reading a science fiction story but the fantasy element soon came into play and they both combined to make a truly wonderful story.
I recommend this book highly.
Weak plot, poor attempt at been homorous.......2004-07-31
Before buying a book I often check the reviews here in Amazon. Since this book had good reviews I went ahead and bought it; big mistake, this book is terrible. For the following reasons I recommend that you don't waste your time reading it:
- Very dated technology. He keeps on talking about a bad capacitor in his robot.
- Half of every page are wise cracks by the hero, which gets very tiresome after a couple of pages.
- All the dialogue is in old english using words such as: hast, thou, nay, etc. This is really painful
- This is supposed to be an action book with lots of sword fighting, but no one gets killed until the very end. When finally the good guys kill a bad guy, they all become very sad.
- The main characters are such wimps that they make the characters by Mercedes Lackey look manly. Rod wouldn't do the queen because he was in love with her
- There are a lot of absurds things in this book. Why did the witch all of the sudden fell in love with the main character and followed him every where? Why didn't anyone noticed that all the councilors looked the same? The most absurd thing of all was the reason why that planet was so important: "Because in the future psichic witches could replace communication electronics". Watch out Motorola and Cisco, Miss Cleo is going to replace you.
Don't waste your time with this lousy dated book. If you want to read good S.F. that mixes technology and magic try the Amber saga by Zelasny.
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This book critiques historians’ assumptions about witch-hunting as well as their explanations for this complex and perplexing phenomenon. It shows that large numbers of men were accused of witchcraft in their own right, in some regions, more men were accused than women. The authors insist on the centrality of gender, tradition, and ideas about witches in the construction of the witch as a dangerous figure. They challenge the marginalization of male witches by feminist and other historians.
Customer Reviews:
Rush Limbaugh Ventures into Witchcraft Scholarship.......2006-11-03
I've been doing a lot of reading about the history of European witchcraft lately. I've been impressed with the seriousness with which the topic is now being treated. I did not perceive any dearth of attention to male witches in the recent scholarship, but I thought it would be interesting to read more in depth on it and so bought this book.
However, rather than being a history, this book is a rant about contemporary scholarship of the history of witchcraft. The gist of the criticism is that there are way too many people bringing a feminist perspective to the field. Pages and pages are given over to all sorts of "proofs" of this feminazi neglect and yes, PREJUDICE against white men, I mean, the subject of male witches in the scholarship of the history of witchcraft. The actual history of male witches in early modern Europe is an excuse for the real topic of complaint about the state of the field.
Thus, this book breaks faith with the reader. It presents itself as a history book. It is in fact a rant against feminists in academia.
If the authors believe that the alleged neglect of the subject of male witches in the scholarship of the history of witchcraft is a fit topic, then perhaps they should raise it at conferences on the subject. Don't waste our time and money with it, and especially don't try to market your rant by calling it scholarship or history. It isn't.
I was once a professor, and this sort of crying and whining with footnotes is one of the reasons I got out of it. The only thing readers will learn from this book is that there are some people who are willing to waste great gobs of their time - and yours - being affronted.
Book Description
THE FINAL ADVENTURE IN THE PHENOMENAL SERIES After an incredible 35-year run, the story of Ron Gallowglass--The Warlock in Spite of Himself--comes to its fantastic finale in the weird and wonderful world of GramaryeWhen Gwendolyn--the witch-wife of Rod Gallowglass, the Lord High Warlock of Gramarye--suddenly dies, she leaves behind a husband dangerously unhinged by grief and a land without a Protector.
When Gwendolyn--the witch-wife of Rod Gallowglass, the Lord High Warlock of Gramarye--suddenly dies, she leaves behind a husband dangerously unhinged by grief and a land without a Protector.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent book.......2006-08-14
The Warlock's Last Ride was a fitting finale to the series. I am very disappointed that there will be no more...Christopher Stasheff was as fabulous with his last book in the series as every other book.
Don't be scared off by the other reviews.......2005-01-09
After reading the other reviews I bought the book and put it on the shelf without reading it because I expected the book to be sad and depressing.
When I finally read the book I found that it was refreshing and reminded me of his first books such as The Warlock in Spite of Himself rather than his later books which were more and more predicable. I don't want to spoil the story so all I will say is that while there are parts that made me sad the way they were written also made me very happy at the same time. I found the book very enjoyable - the plot was not predicable - there was a lot of variety, and the book had a pleasant and satisfying ending. If you have read the series then you will want to read this book.
A sad goodbye.......2004-08-21
Since I graduated from reading Nancy Drew mysteries in grade four I've been reading the Warlock books. I started with the first book and never looked back. Rod, Gwen, their children, as well as Fess have been freinds and now I can't expect to hear (well, read) of their new adventures.
So its a fond and sad farewell for me.
Mr. Stasheff brings together all the threads of his many tales over the years with skill. After so long you'd expect there to be more inconsistencies in this last book from the first. Unlike many other authors, he managed to avoid the mistakes that readers always catch. Especially after such a long lived series.
A wonderful final adventure as Rod and Fess go off in to the sunset and find Gwen again.
Great Closure.......2004-06-07
It was a very long time ago when I first started reading this series with "The Warlock in Spite of Himself", "Escape Velocity", and "King Kobold", and if you haven't some if not most of the early stories in the series you definitely don't want to start with this one. If you have been fortunate to have already discovered the Gallowglass family, you really do not want to miss this book.
I can't say that the plot itself is really great or gripping - I mean that from the standpoint of the villains that the Gallowglass family are faced with in the story. SPITE and VETO - the agents from the future are back as the antagonists, and they've got back the lead agents from the earliest books - the Mocker and Durer. However the big "fights" seem to be a side note to the story. What really drives this book is the story of Rod, Gwen and his children. This book is basically about saying farewell to a really beloved friend as we lose some of the main characters who have been in the story from the beginning.
As other reviewers have noted there have been a ton of books in this series, but all good things must end. Rod and Gwen have four capable and now grown up children and it was time to pass the mantle.
It's kind of a bittersweet story, and long time fans will be saddened as you read this book, but at the same time you'll feel a sense of completion.
I kind of fell away from the series about 4 or 5 novels into the Magnus (Gar Pike) off-shoot series as they felt very repetitive, but this one was definitely worth coming back for.
Sad to see the end.......2004-06-07
Other reviewers have commented favorably on the book, and I must agree. If for nothing else other than nostalgia, anyone who has read Mr. Stasheff's previous novels would have to read this one.
"The Warlock's Last Ride" is a bittersweet one, as we see beloved characters die and others operate through their grief. Writing is, as someone else pointed out, fresh, and seeing a number of plot strings introduced at various parts of the series brings a strong sense of closure. Moreover, since this is a Stasheff novel, the closure is logically presented, and consistent within the science of the series.
Kudos to Mr. Stasheff, and should you read this review, I would like to say that from book 1 to this one, it has been a very long, but very companionable, ride.
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