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Summary: unforgettable
Review: I read this book ages ago. I lent it to a friend. She never gave it back.
The hero, Angelo Osic, is not young, nor is he a stereotype of the action-adventure genre, and yet Wolverton makes Osic's odyssey believable.
The warmth of this existential, humane character, his gradual transformation into a warrior, and his involuntary exile across the galaxy haunts me to this day.
It saddens me to read that this novel is out of print. I thought this was adventure-SF's last gasp before the cyber and alternate universe genre took over.
_On My Way_ is what the Star Wars prequels wish they could have been...
I must find another copy at a used bookstore and read it again. I'll probably like it so much, I'll end up giving it to another friend. This Dave Wolverton classic is too good not to be shared.
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Summary: tour de force
Review: I read this novel after reading review by Orson Scott Card praising it highly. It is my favorite sci-fi novel of all time.
It is powerfully psychological,clearly influenced by Phillip K Dick, but it is also marvelous for its "hard" technical content, as well as very intellectual in the way the hero examines the moral questions of his world. Plot is also handled very well, with lots of violent action, and images which are simply unforgettable. How can this be a first novel? It is moving on every level and I consider it a masterpiece.
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Summary: perhaps the best novel I've read in years, maybe ever
Review: I'm a political consultant - this is my life yet this book gave me quite a bit to think about. To my shock, it also gave me views that have held up well years after having read this. The only negative I can say about this book is that it's not required reading for EVERYBODY.
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Summary: This 1st novel is a stunning, thought provoking masterpiece
Review: If Dave Wolverton had never written another novel for the rest of his life he would have earned a place on my list of my favorite SF authors alongside Stanislav Lem, Gene Wolfe, Ursula Le Guin, James Triptree Jr, James Morrow etc.
Of course like the very best SF books, this book is so good it can easily hold its own even outside the SF genre, because under the brilliant light of the authors's illumination it compels us to look more closely at the human condition. The story works at many levels and succeeds at every one. While reading it, and afterwards especially, I could not stop thinking about it and talked about it to all of my friends. Wolverton is simply incredible --his intellect, like his craftsmanship, is phenomenal. Go take the journey and dream his dream! You will not be sorry.
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Summary: It ought to be republished!
Review: It is a shame that this magnificent book is not easily availiable. By far it is the best book I have ever read, and that includes all kinds of litterature, not only science fiction. My brother in law claims to this day that I ruined his vacation on Bali because I gave him this book just before he left for the vacation.This book has it all. It is increadibly intense, just like Ender's Game, while at the same time being very philosofical about life itself. And the persons in the book has multilayered personalities that makes you really care for them. They really ought to republish this book!
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Summary: Insert positive hyperbole here
Review: It is rare that you come across a book that moves you on such a basic level that you revisit your presumptions about basic social dynamics. Wolverton has set up a magnificent world where the bucolic serenity of the gentle protagonist has been destroyed by the callous intrusion of political conflict and the desperate bravado of other victims of that conflict. Angelo Osic's battle to preserve his humanity in the face of a circumstance that demands he lose it makes for a poignant story. Unlike many other books in the genre, Wolverton manages to use technology to accentuate the very human conflicts his characters face, rather than trivialize them. Osic is about as well developed a character as I have ever seen; Wolverton also succeeds in creating wholly believable and sympathetic characters out of a minimum of verbiage. It is amazing how he can offer a few lines of description and somehow convey the entire sense of an actor in this stark but passionate world. I have bought six copies of On My Way to Paradise and given them out to various friends, and cannot praise this book highly enough.
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Summary: Will Wolverton ever be heard from again????
Review: The other reviews have pretty much covered this book. It is five stars all the way. Its one of those books that you look back longingly on, almost fifteen years old now, I remember a day when I was much younger, and the world still exciting and new. Im sure you all have books that stay with you like that. It evokes great memories from a great time to be in college (early 90's). Anyway, the question is, will Dave Wolverton ever write a sequel? Will he ever write under his real name? Or write true sci-fi, not just star wars young adult trash? I sure hope he does. Dave, if you ever read this, please return to the world you created in "Paradise!"
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Summary: Will Wolverton ever be heard from again????
Review: The other reviews have pretty much covered this book. It is five stars all the way. Its one of those books that you look back longingly on, almost fifteen years old now, I remember a day when I was much younger, and the world still exciting and new. Im sure you all have books that stay with you like that. It evokes great memories from a great time to be in college (early 90's). Anyway, the question is, will Dave Wolverton ever write a sequel? Will he ever write under his real name? Or write true sci-fi, not just star wars young adult trash? I sure hope he does. Dave, if you ever read this, please return to the world you created in "Paradise!"
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Summary: SIMPLY THE BEST
Review: This book is incredible in it's vivd portrayals and I would recomend this book for anyone with 1/2 a brain (or more).
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Summary: This is the best SF book I have read.
Review: This is the best written science fiction book that I have ever come across. I have made many of my friends read it, and they also enjoyed it greatly.
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