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Summary: Great adventure book. Kept me up to all hours. Loved it
Review: It was a great read. This was my second wilbur smith book. Right after River God you MUST read The Seventh Scroll. The story takes up on the path 4000 years later.
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Summary: ethereal
Review: only book I have read by Wilbur Smith. One of the best books I have ever read. Who cares about what really happened. I wouldn't have it any other way. Rivergod is your best chance to live in ancient Egypt. A perfect book.
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Summary: Breathtaking
Review: As always W.S. is an excellent writer, I've read all his books, but River God is the one that stole my heart. Even in history books I didn't find such an easy writing about ancient ways and Egypt. I don't know what the "word fro the author" in the end really meant, it's not easy to believe something like that, but Mr. Smith can take anyone to a trip in Ancient Egypt and doesn't let him get tired. The events, the language, the romance, the love of not just a lifetime, finds its way in this book.. I think that says it all, I hope he continues to capture our minds and hearts...
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Summary: I was transported mentally and emotionally to ancient egypt.
Review: The River God is story tellers dream, full of life and imagery that can only be the result of eye witness accounts. The characters are alive in every sense of emotion. As I read the book I could taste the dust, feel the burning sun, smell the water of the nile and experienced the passions of love and hate. While reading this book my nights were filled with dreams of Egyptian battles, religious experiences and passionate love.
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Summary: WAY COOL!!!
Review: Now to all those that dislike this book for it's lack of acurate historical fact, I say.. "the fact that you could tell right off the it has a lack of historiacl fact should tell you that you are not reading a history book here" WooHoo Man what a piece of history it is now because it is just simply a Way Cool book. Never boring. I was actually sad that it ended. Imagine that!!!!
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Summary: A must for those whose passion is ancient Egypt
Review: Mr. Smith transports the reader back to ancient Egypt by combing history, intrigue, and love with a fast paced writing style.While navigating through the twists and turns of this novel I was transported back in time to Pharohs' Egypt. Definitely a 'twice' read book.
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Summary: Alt hist brought to life with living, breathing characters.
Review: Readers of alternate history who are lovers of ancient Egypt will fall for Wilbur Smith's story and characters. Though a slow start, due to Tata the Slave's love of detail, this story of ancient life among the pharaohs is vivid in its detail. I was soon immersed in the lives of all the main characters. Smith's sequel, "Seventh Scroll," brought this ancient story into the present while keeping the ancient characters alive within me. The quicker pace of the sequel (since Tata is no longer the storyteller) doesn't fail to make us care about its modern-day characters, while providing an exciting quest with many unexpected turns--truly worthy of Tata's praise. Together, "River God" and "Seventh Scroll" make for a fascinating adventure occuring in two diffenent epochs.
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Summary: True history can only try to match the reading here
Review: I loved this book and it's sequel.I found that Mr. Smith parelled history in the book while changing some to fit his story. I loved it. He used the Pharoah Seqenenre Tao's true life for his Pharoah Mamose except adding the pickle barrel for the mummification was a stroke of literary genius. The battle and the injurys Mamose suffered defending "his very Egypt"are consistant with the real ones, except that Tao's mummy was found in the Valley of the Kings cache with the injurys intact and Mamose was supposed to be buried in the Ethopian mountains. The history behind Ahmose I's conquring of the Hyksos is also true and the use of the horse of the Hyksos (Sesem, Probably a Turkoman Akhal Teke type of horse from the hieroglyph), the improvement of the wheel while in the South and the finding of the Bedouin horse and adopting it for their use, the horse that is our present day purebred Arabian, called Nefer (also the word for beautiful) in ancient Egyptian and the hieroglph shows the Arabian horse complete with high neck and tail and dished face we see even today. I have an Egyptian descendant of these Nefer in my own field. I had to laugh at the "yellow disease". Whether that happened or not in history Mr.Smith certainly hit upon the bane of all horse breeders. Called Rhinopneumonitis today I like his description better. Tanis would probably not have had as much power as stated, but a man could reasonably rise in the ranks to Vizier with deeds and receive the "Gold of Honor" or the "Gold of Valor". Whatever, he was sure conceited. The real name of Lostris would have most likely been Ahhotep I, so no wonder he named her Lostris. It was as good a book as I have read and the sequel "The Seventh Scroll " is also one you will not put down. While the parellel to true history is fictionlized it is unbeatable for good reading. Actually I wore the covers off carrying it everywhere.
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Summary: As good on tape as it is in print
Review: I read the River God a couple of years ago and wanted something to listen to while stuck in the everyday traffic. I picked up the River God, popped it into the tape player, and within minutes was grinning like an idiot. Dick Hill does a great job reading Taita's story. I had forgotten what a self-impressed person Taita was and all of this was portrayed perfectly with Hill's reading. I took pleasure from it all over again!
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Summary: Magnificent!!
Review: This was the first novel by Smith that I had read and probably one of the most unforgettable books I've ever read. I will remember Taita for years to come. This is a sweeping saga that was impossible to put down. Read this book for the sheer pleasure of experiencing a great story.
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