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Summary: BIZ WIZ not WIZ BIZ -- A book by another title
Review: Are you looking for BIZ WIZ instead of WIZ BIZ? If so, search on www.bizcenter.com and you will find it there. It is basic business education for anyone without a business degree.
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Summary: Tecno-geek gets the girl, and we love it!
Review: Cook's captivating effort gets up and running from the git-go. Moira, a hedge witch, the term itself conjures up wonderful imagery, is saddled with a magically and socially inept Cupertino MacJockey, with the appropriate initials of WIZ. Adventure and accident prove that even pencil-necks can develop a personality. Wiz makes a pleasant and believable transformation into a protagonist. This guy's no Errol Flynn, but that's really part of his charm. Those of us without rippling biceps, and killer instincts grudgingly see Wiz as someone to relate to. The first book runs to a predictable but completely satisfactory conclusion. The second book begins with domestic disenchantment, and is a little slow. How, we ask ourselves, does Cook top the last book? It would seem, at the outset, that the author killed the bad guys WAY too early. But Cook has a trump tucked behind his singleton and plays it pretty well. The second half of the book is good, but not as absorbing as the first. The imagery in this book was lush and inviting. The Wild Wood was not quite as nasty a place as it could have been, but it was a fun place to be. I was a little disappointed that Cook put in certains adjectives. I have no kick with a little colorful language, but I think the book would have been the better for the deletion of f&$k. Granted it's part of life and hard to get away from, but it seems like this was gratuitous. Other than that, these books were wonderful! first
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Summary: Yep, it's the first two books in the "Wiz" series combined.
Review: I don't want to mislead anyone here. "The Wiz Biz" is a combined volume containing the first two books in the "Wiz" series (Wizard's Bane and The Wizardry Compiled).Why a combined re-issue? It's not intended as a rip-off, I can assure you. The short answer is the economics of publishing. Because modern paperbacks have a half life somewhat shorter than than a chocolate souffle, this is one of the few ways to keep a book available to the public. In addition, due to the innate madness of the publishing industry (I refuse to call it a 'business') "The Wizardry Compiled" had become extremely hard to find. (Why? I don't know. My publisher, the saintly Jim Baen, doesn't know. All we do is write and publish the books respectively. I mean it's not like we have anything to DO with them.) So combining the first two books as "The Wiz Biz" made sense as a way to keep them available. Just don't buy them as if they were a new book. The next Wiz book? Well, not for a while. I have a horror of running a series into the ground and I have a deal with several friends that if I ever write "Wiz 17: The Wizardry Gurgitated" they'll quietly put me out of my misery. --Rick Cook
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Summary: The WizBiz
Review: I enjoyed the books (It's a two in one deal). The characters were entertaining and the second part was the best. This is a good book for lazy days or long plain rides. I would suggest it for anyone who enjoys the fantasy realm with a twist. It brings the 21st century (Wiz) and mixes it with that realm of magics. I enjoyed it I hope you will too.
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Summary: great story, lousy edition
Review: I enjoyed the original books. The story is lots of fun to read. But the copy-editing and typesetting in this edition are truly despicable. Words are mis-spelled, parahgraphs are run together, and numerous other mistakes. Why couldn't they just have published this edition from the same master layouts as the original two books? It looks like the typesetter for this edition copy-and-pasted the two books togehter in his word processor; and then allowed his cat to walk on the keyboard before generating the master files for printing.
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Summary: extremely funny and geeky
Review: I enjoyed Wiz Biz very much. It made me laugh out loud a few times. Very fun if you are into computer programming especially and can relate somewhat to the main character.
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Summary: The ideal fantasy book for systems programmers
Review: I liked this book. It was entertaining and in parts very much like Tom Clancy (small parts but entertaining).
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Summary: great story, lousy edition
Review: I love these books. During a recent move, I lost my copy of Wizard's Bane, the first book in this wonderfull series. I was very sad when I found out it was out of print. Then I saw this book on Amazon. The first 2 books in the series, reprinted together! I bought it, read it, and almost burned it. The editing is so horible, it almost ruins the story. Paragraphs run together, or are split for no apparent reason. Quotation marks and other punctuation are missing, extra, or in the wrong place. In some places text is repeted. The editor who let this piece of unmitigated junk go to print aught to be exiled to Siberia. This story is a must read, but only buy this book if there is no way you can get your hands on a copy of the original printing.
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Summary: lousy editing of a wonderfull story
Review: I love these books. During a recent move, I lost my copy of Wizard's Bane, the first book in this wonderfull series. I was very sad when I found out it was out of print. Then I saw this book on Amazon. The first 2 books in the series, reprinted together! I bought it, read it, and almost burned it. The editing is so horible, it almost ruins the story. Paragraphs run together, or are split for no apparent reason. Quotation marks and other punctuation are missing, extra, or in the wrong place. In some places text is repeted. The editor who let this piece of unmitigated junk go to print aught to be exiled to Siberia. This story is a must read, but only buy this book if there is no way you can get your hands on a copy of the original printing.
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Summary: BIZ WIZ not WIZ BIZ -- A book by another title
Review: In the first book, the programming is real, the characters are real, the action is great and the book is completely irresistible. Maybe I don't get out of my cubicle enough, but this is the best portrayal of programmers I've found in fiction. Most fiction deifies scientists as unapproachable intellects, where Wiz Zumwalt deifies himself while nicely walking the edge between bumbling techno-nerd and a character who's been given a little too much rope with which to hold a plot consistently together. To paraphrase MIT Computer Science professor Joeseph Weizenbaum, this novel satisfies any old time computer hacker's megalomaniacal fantasies of omnipotence, and then some.
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