Pillar of Fire

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Summary: I couldn't stand this book!!
Review: This book was terrible. Even if she did use Dr. Redford's book as one of her references, she obviously just picked what she wanted out of it and ignored the rest. Akhenaten was Moses????!!!! Yeah, right!!!!! Akhenaten detested the secrecy of the cult of Amen, and picked Aten as his diety because you could see it, and did not have to rely on faith. This doesn't sound very Judaistic to me! Like so many people who have written about Akhenaten, Tarr made the mistake of portraying him as being detached from his family, when all evidence indicates that Akhenaten was devoted to his family. I couldn't finish it.

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Summary: An enjoyable read. Great storyline.
Review: This is the first of Tarr's novels I have read. I found the storyline to be wonderfully transporting. Her characters are believable, and her descriptions allow you to experience life in ancient Egypt. My only problem with this work is the language, or perhaps I should say grammar: Some sentences simply don't make sense. I am inclined, however, to believe these to be typographical errors, and they don't detract from the story. Altogether this is a very believable tale about the "heretic" Pharoh Akenaten and his family and household. Definitely worth the paperback price tag!

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Summary: She has to be kidding!!!!
Review: Well, unless you ignore the fact that the two men in this book lived centuries apart, this could be a good science fiction book.
This book is stupid, insulting, and the worst she has ever written.

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Summary: SO ridicules that I couldn't ever finish it!
Review: What can I say? This was the worst, most un-researched book that I have ever read! Tarr just doesn't know what she is babbling about! judging from this stupid book, one has to wonder what sort of educated woman this Ms. Tarr is! I pushed myself to keep reading this idiotic book, but when she started saying that Akhenaten was Moses, I couldn't stomache the rest, I had to quit reading. There is NO way that Moses and akhenaten were the same person! They were in totally different centuries, for crying out loud! I think that she must have taken the theory of Moses excepting monotheism MAYBE as a result of learning about the Heretic, WAY too far. To say that Moses answered God's call because a few hundred years before, a brave, loving family-man stepped away from the old gods and started a new faith, is one thing, but to say that they are the same person, is totally unresearched and unfounded. I don't recommend this book to anyone, and after other people read it, I feel sure that everyone in their right mind will agree with me about the absurdity of this peice of crap that has no right to be called a novel!