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Summary: Casca Returns (but not as good as before)
Review: I was very happy to see a new Casca book in the bookstore. I had greatly enjoyed the previous series and hoped that someone would pick up where Barry Sadler had left off. The setting was OK, but not very well developed and the history of the tribes was lacking. Way too many pages were spent on the sexual goings on of Casca and his three nurses. Some attention was paid to the tactics and strategy used by the tribes but overall it was dismissed as a madman's creation. I hope that the next author who makes a creative stab at writing more on this series can do a more credible job.
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Summary: I look forward to the sequel!
Review: I was very pleasantly surprised by this author's first effort. It is natural to be resistant, however I was happy to have given it a chance. I found the story quite remarkable and daring. It equally weaves the horrors of man's greatest crimes together with, heroic adventure, romance and mystery. I applaud the author for the courage to explore without being exploitative the relationship between Casca and his female companions. It would have been quite easy to go for the most common denoiminator in tackling such and issue, however Paul Dengelegi has chosen different. Although our society frowns on much of such a character's actions, I believe he has pulled it off quite well. There is enough for any fan to enjoy here, from history, mystery and adventure. I dare anyone to have felt ambivalent at the conclusion of this book. I look forward to the sequel!
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Summary: Oh, well.
Review: I've read (and re-read many times) the entire Cascaseries. Mr. Dengali made a valiant effort to continue the series, butfailed to grasp the character. The book was verbose to the extreme, filled with grammatical errors and errors of usage. The editor is at fault for this failing. "Taught" instead of "taut?" Please.Perhaps had the editor been familiar with the storyline of the series, Casca would have drowned after the pirate episode. Which not only would have let us bypass several pages, but would have been true to the character. A hard read, a story drawn beyond a viable length, and an indistinct setting, combined to make this book less than I had hoped for. But Paul, don't give up! Re-read the originals, cut down on the flowery prose and take another crack at it! I'd love to see another one. I seem to rememeber a mention of Machiavelli...
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Summary: Forget this one
Review: If you liked Saddler's work, forget this guy.
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Summary: Pleasantly surprised
Review: Not the type of book I would usually read, seemed more like a "guy" book, yet I had decided to give it a chance. I had never read any of the previous books which made some of it confusing and difficult to follow. Soon I came to realize the author was creating a whole world for me to enjoy, the world Casca found himself in and the tortured and anguished world of his mind. The detail some of the previous reviewers found too much, was the same detail that created the whole world around Casca. I could feel his thoughts, wants and desires while at the same time I emersed myself in the adventure he was living. It would have been dissapointing to follow the Eternal Mercenary on a road littered by corpses, something I feel some of the other reviewers found lacking. A terminator Casca is not. He is a complex character who found himself in a critical point in history. There is much more to this book than meets the eye. I look forward to reading it again. The author did great.
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Summary: Better than Sadler
Review: Sadler created a compelling mythic character in Casca, perhaps the best of the Sword and Sorcery genre. But Dengelegi has created a new more compelling Casca. The book is essentially violence and vengence and highly entertainingly so. Dengelegi has added a wry use of innuendo and metaphor that one didn't see in Sadler's original series. All in all the best new book in S & S.
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Summary: Will the real Casca please stand-Up!
Review: Synopsis: Casca gets aboard ship, drowns, visits Sub-Saharan Africa and saves city from a madman and the evil European Slavers (did I mention Africa?). Way too long of a book. Not a thing like Sadler's Casca. Lack of action, lack of feeling. Way to much description of dull, uninspiring trivia. The one good thing, it makes some of Sadler's worst prose feel inspired. In short, skip the book unless you have to have everything that has Casca's name on it.
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Summary: Casca The Liberator
Review: The author failed to catch the soul of Casca as developed by Barry Sadler. Get a Sadler series Casca, they're exellent, this one is not worth the money. It's hard to figure where in time and place the book occurs, I had to force myself to read it, and I couldn't remain focused.
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Summary: The Return of the Eternal Mercenary
Review: The Eternal Mercenary has returned. Casca doomed by Jesus to an endless life as Soldier travels through time and places which we mortals will never see nor experience. In this new episode Casca returns from the deep of the atlantic ocean and again is content to do what he knows best, fight against man's evil doing. Barry Sadler who created this book series died in 1989. His experience as a Vietnam Soldier (Special Forces, Green Beret) and his mercenary work in South America gave Barry Sadler the edge and knowledge. His masterful story telling woven of History, Adventure and Military Traditions makes this book series worth to collect. There are 22 novels by Barry Sadler. Now Casca has returned saving an african tribe of total extinction. Paul Dengelegi did good, he interlinks History with Adventure and Military Tradition with the Pain and Sorrow of War. If you have read the 22 novels you will enjoy this one. If not than it is time to get them and find out who CASCA is.
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Summary: Unexpectedly well written and entertaining
Review: The original Casca was exciting, but a bit boiler-plate, a Conan without steroids. This new author has one-upped Sadler with two new facets -- a strong sexual undertone, and a keen attention to historical detail. Overall a very good read.
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