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Summary: Another Jenning's classic with fabulous characters
Review: As a Jenning's fan, I felt lucky to pick up Road Show at the airport book shop. Jenning's round up of new characters are as colorful as ever. I enjoy Jenning's ability to draw me into the very heart of the story. The settings are well researched and the post civil war imagery springs to life with Jennings detailed discriptive language. I read voraciously about this vagabond circus troop, their joys and their losses; and I was disappointed to finish the book without the next already in hand. I am waiting on the edge of my seat to finish the saga.
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Summary: excellent read!
Review: As an avid fan of Jennings, I was delighted when I ran across the Spangle series. Unfortunately, I found The Road Show so incredibly boring, that I didn't bother finishing the rest of the series. What a contrast to his other fine work such as Aztec, The Journeyor, and Raptor...
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Summary: Sort of like junk food
Review: I agree with others that if you think you're getting another Aztec, you'll be really disappointed. There is nothing compelling enough about it to recommend anyone to buy it, but if you find it at a yard sale for 50 cents, keep in your car for traffic jams.
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Summary: Boring
Review: I was so eager to buy this book after reading Aztec that I went out and bought the whole trilogy. Imagine my disappointment when I couldn't even get through half of the book. Nothing happens except a forced, unrealistic sex scene. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: I've always liked historical novels. Jennings books are always informitive as well as entertaining, and this book is no exception. You'll learn alot about circus/sideshow history. It was disappointing to see a book of so few pages by this author, but now I realize that he has the next two installments being released in a few months. I wait with anticipation. This story is almost as good as Aztec and the Journeyer, and a lot better than Raptor.
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Summary: Spangle, Journeyer, and Aztec.... WOW!
Review: Incredible reads: chunky, lurid, twisted, funny, sad, and simply great page turners throughout. In Spangle, even if you fail to get engrossed by the characters themselves (I don't see how that can happen) you learn so much about circus life itself. Even now, I can't look at a contortionist without thinking about this book.You can't go wrong!!
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Summary: Spangle, Journeyer, and Aztec.... WOW!
Review: Incredible reads: chunky, lurid, twisted, funny, sad, and simply great page turners throughout. In Spangle, even if you fail to get engrossed by the characters themselves (I don't see how that can happen) you learn so much about circus life itself. Even now, I can't look at a contortionist without thinking about this book. You can't go wrong!!
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Summary: A letdown for lovers of Raptor and Journeyer
Review: It seems that I, unlike most it seems, am a bigger fan of Kidder's lesser read works (Raptor & Journeyer) than his most popular (Aztec & Aztec Automn)...although all have been well-worth the reading. Regardless, I've tried to get through this book twice and haven't made it...in comparison with his previous efforts, this one falls far short.
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Summary: A Promising Start to a Leisurely Journey
Review: This is a pleasantly low-key historical novel: Rome doesn't fall, Chicago doesn't burn, and nobody's holding the fate of Western Civilization in their hands. It's a nice change-of-pace from the average historical novel, where even ordinary people are swept up in Great Events (witness Ken Follett's excellent _Pillars of the Earth_). _The Roadshow_ never pretends to be more than what it is: the story of an 1860s travelling circus as seen through the eyes of two ex-Confederate soldiers who join up with it for lack of anything better to do. It's crammed with incident, colorful characters, occasional bursts of action, and a lot of detail about 19th-century circus life, and rolls along at an agreeable (though hardly headlong) pace. You get to know, and care about the characters and (perhaps as Jennings intended) you come to see the troupe *itself* as the real hero of the story. Individuals come and indviduals go, but the troupe (and the show, of course) always go on. Fair Warning: _Roadshow_ is the first of three volumes, and it reads very much like Jennings *wrote* a single unified novel that the publishers then broke into three pieces. _Roadshow_ doesn't actually *have* an ending of its own . . . just a pause before volume 2. If you find yourself enjoying the story, start looking for volume 2 while you're still working on volume 1.
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