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Summary: Splendid Storyteller's Masterpiece
Review: This is just a great Book from the master Storyteller of America, specially when he puts into the splendid and mistique history of 11th century Middle-east and INDIA. Really, a book worth possessing for every avid reader...
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Summary: A plesant surprise
Review: Up untill the time I read Louis L'Amore's "The Walking Drum," I thought he had written only westerns. This historical adventure is my favorite book by him. I felt as if I was there with Kerbouchard and experianced each adventure along with him. I was able to see the Byzantine Empire and Constantinople with L'Amour's discriptive detail. The plot is woven into a romantic adventure I wish could have continued. I had hoped that there would be second book about Kerbouchard's journey to India, but I was never able to find it. This book is a keeper, and I plan to read it again.
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Summary: I'm trapped in an adventure novel and I can't get out!
Review: I'm actually a fan of Louis L'Amour and his westerns, so I was pretty excited about the idea of him writing a medieval adventure novel. However, I was very disappointed with "The Walking Drum". The book is basically a series of repetitive adventures involving Kerbouchard (another of L'Amour's supermen)getting into trouble and getting back out again. Repeat, ad finitum. The only thing that seems to change is the backdrop. That L'Amour knew the places and histories he was writing about firsthand is obvious. He was always good at making the settings of his books very vivid and living parts of his books. But the actual structure of the novel's plot -- well, here it's just a hodgepodge. By the time Kerbouchard rescued his father I just wanted to get the darn book finished already. Definitely not one of his best.
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Summary: His finest work!
Review: The Walking Drum is filled with all of the bravery, courage, raw emotions, and romance that you might expect from L'AMOUR, but in a period he did not otherwise explore. Clashing steel replaces the smell of gunsmoke as Kerbouchard flies across Europe in the pursuit of his father. From slave to hero, Kerbouchard has the ability to ignite grand visions of power and nobility in any man Ladies look out, this flamboyant swordsman has stolen many hearts along the way.Although L'AMOUR is known for his "Westerns", he outdid himself on this work. It is truly a shame that the master of storytelling did not live to continue with a series based on this historical period. Read it once or read it a hundred times, The Walking Drum is alive with flair and excitment.
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Summary: The walking drum
Review: This was a very gripping book i couldn't put it down its my favorite book i recommened it to anyone get this book now!
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Summary: family and the wandering spirit
Review: LL's books often have this theme of people who are not content, who have a need to wander the world and see what is over the hill and beyond the horizon. Most of his books focus on the american west and how mountain men, pioneers, indians and adventure seekers pushed out into the unknown to see what was there and experience new things. This book takes a different approach, about a man who wanders east into europe and eventualy asia, but has the same themes. Bound to his family above all else, but with a desire to see new things and experience the world take the main character on an journey across the known world. A wonderful book full of insights into a relatively unknown time, LL as usual shows his appreciation of other cultures while admiring his own the most. One of his best books, on the top of my LL list with the Jubal Sackett and Last of the Breed.
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Summary: The Greatest L'Amour Hero!
Review: I own about 100 L'Amour books, and rank THE WALKING DRUM next to JUBAL SACKETT and LAST OF THE BREED (set in the Soviet Union!)and SITKA (set in Alaska, Russia, the Far East, and the halls of the U.S. Capital!) as my favorite. Clearly, Kerbouchard is L'Amour's greatest hero ever, and the setting is absolutely stunning. I have long tried to convince friends that L'Amour is a "frontier" writer, not a "Western" writer, with little avail. That is, most people are aware of his books about the American West, about cowboys, ranchers, settlers and the like. Yet, his work encompasses much more than that. From fen-men to pirates, from early continental settlers to sailors, from the East Coast to the West Coast, from trips to Singapore to trips to Alaska, from crossing Imperial Russia to crossing the whole of Eurasia, L'Amour's characters are always on a frontier somewhere.
And in THE WALKING DRUM, the entire world is frontier. To Kerbouchard, each place he goes, he learns something new, sees things that are exotic to his eyes, considers thinking by wise and venerable individuals, and reconsiders his entire view of the world. One particularly interesting note is that we see the source of the term "Robber Baron." Far from being a term coined to describe American industrialist, we see Kerbouchard actually battle local nobles and feudal lords who use their power to loot and steal from travelers and traders -- that is, he battles barons who are robbers, or "robber barons." In learning more about the past, we can better understand the present, and seek the future. As Kerbouchard says, "Yol Bolson!" May there be a road....
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Summary: One of the best books i've ever read!
Review: This book was fantastic, one i couldn't put down until the end. i read it in three days, then read it again! i am working on a paper for my humanities class, and this is the book i read. it was a real page turner, with romance, surprise around every corner, and great detail that added to the suspence and adventure. i give it two thumbs up!
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Summary: The Walking Drum
Review: I absolutely loved this book. I would really like to know if Louis L'Amour wrote more after this one to find out if Kerbouchard went to India to find Sundari...Can you tell me this? I read it in less than 1 week it was so great! Thanks.
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Summary: Not accurate history but worth a read.
Review: I love the history in this book, unfortunately it is not all accurate. L'amour has the Moors using scimitars which didn't come into use by the Muslims until the Mongol invasions about 50 years later than the date the book takes place. He calls the land of the Franks Gaul like the Roman empire was still around. Kerbouchard knows quite a bit about the ancient Egyptians, but people then knew next to nothing about them, thinking Genies responsible for the pyramids. He depicts the Moorish women as having more freedom than that of the Franks, the exact opposite was true. The story is repetitive with a damsel and arch villian in each adventure. All that being said it is worth a read.
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