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Summary: Avon's Legacy
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. I was a new fan of Blakes 7
When I bid on a copy of Avon A Terrible Aspect at a Fan convention charity event. Author and Actor Paul Darrow very
graciously autographed my copy...
I wanted to see the character Avon through the eyes of the
actor who portrayed him. I was not disappointed. It was an interesting read.My favorite TV show Blakes 7 and my all time
favorite character Anti-hero Kerr Avon were explained in a way
which brought me full circle as a fan and arm chair adventurer.
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Summary: If the category existed, I would rate this book Minus 3.
Review: Mr Darrow has captured the essence that creates Avon. Power, adventure, and love all twist together to produce the background of the man we grew to admire. This book maps out the road that Avon follows and brings full circle many questions left unanswered in the series. Thank you for your achievement.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Mr Darrow has captured the essence that creates Avon. Power, adventure, and love all twist together to produce the background of the man we grew to admire. This book maps out the road that Avon follows and brings full circle many questions left unanswered in the series. Thank you for your achievement.
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Summary: An Essential read, although faily short.
Review: Paul has managed to develop a complex character in Avon, one of the reasons why Blakes 7 was such a huge hit, despite its cheap budget. The book shows how the author created Avon, from a small boy to the moment he appears in episode 2. As Science fiction goes, and I've read a great deal, this book is an essential read.
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Summary: If the category existed, I would rate this book Minus 3.
Review: Poorly written, stomach-churning potboiler, masquerading as science fiction. The writers of the B7 series would have been appalled, as were many of the faithful fans at this effort. The science is laughably inaccurate, the plot is pure 30's pulp and the characters are disgusting and bear little resemblence to how they appeared in the actual BLAKES 7 TV series. I've read far better fan fiction in this series universe.
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Summary: Avon: A Terrible Aspic, a mold of some gelatinous leftovers
Review: This novel (based on the brilliant British SF series Blake's 7) was written by Paul Darrow, the actor who played the role of "Avon" on Blake's 7. Mr Darrow is a complex, subtle actor. He brought to the character many, many levels. Avon clearly possessed kinder and gentler motives than he dared reveal, instead assuming the role of rivingly cynical logical savant, forced by apparent circumstances to be part of Blake's less-than-merry band of criminals-turned-freedom-fighters.
So too Mr Darrow aspires toward better intentions with his novel, but falls utterly into aspic...a melange of suspect lineage, more vegetable matter than meat. It's not "terrible", in the popular sense, but more in the Elizabethan tradition whence the title derives.
The plot is unwieldy, the prose oft times deadly, the character judgments highly suspect, and the astronomical and astrophysical suggestions frequently downright criminal.
Still and all, he's a brilliant actor. I heartly recommend he spend his sparetime in other pursuits.
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