Rating: Summary: A Very Good Book, one of the best I've read in months!!! Review: IF you like SF or fantasy, you'll probably really like this book. Very exciting and very different. Well worth reading, but overpriced in this cheezy looking edition.
Rating: Summary: ONE OF MY ALL TIME SF FAVORITES. Review: As thrilling a read as you're ever likely to encounter. I'm not sure if this book is fantasy or science fiction or a combination of the two. But it's a wonderful quest story with great characters and a dynamite finish.
Rating: Summary: Mmmm... Review: I haven't read this book, so ignore the number of stars, but looking at the reviews there seems to be ONE person writing most of the reviews for this book. Watch out...
Rating: Summary: IF THIS IS A CULT CLASSIC, HOW COME I LIKED IT. Review: Normally, I'm not a big fan of cult classics. People who would hate them if they were best sellers tend to fall in love with them because they're obscure. Well,this is about as obscure as any book you're likely to find. If you doubt that, take a look at the cover. But guess what? It's a darn good book. In spite of the fact that the culties are starting to read it. Of course, if it becomes popular they'll probably forget they ever liked it and find some reason to hate the thing. But guess what again? Van Gogh is still a great painter, even though everybody likes him. And this will be just as good a book then as it is now. Not to worry though, culties. Maybe you can't judge a book by its cover but I can't see a book with a cover like this breaking any sales records.
Rating: Summary: MY STRONGEST RECOMMENDATION Review: I stumbled on this book in the public library. A friend had told me about it, but to be frank I was turned off by the cover. It's got one of the worst covers I've ever seen on a book. I have no idea what these people were thinking of, but it couldn't been of selling books. But open the cover and read the book. You'll be glad you did. The hero is a reluctant savior, real reluctant. He's been drafted to become a messiah and like a sensible person, he doesn't want any part of that. But he doesn't have a choice and it's a great trip watching him turn from being a victim to becoming the hero he has to be. I'm already on my second reading. I like it even more the second time. There's a lot in here that flies by the first time you read it.
Rating: Summary: Maher should write more Review: What people need to do is hound the author into getting off his duff and writing more novels. It not that there just isn't a sequel, there aren't any other novels at all. What's up with that?
Rating: Summary: Imaginative and worth a read Review: Okay, I agree that this is quite a good book. I am a bit surprised at the overwhelmingly 5-star reviews, though. There ARE better books out there, in my opinion. The post-fall-of-civilization world that Maher envisions is inventive and yet pretty believable. Society has become stratified and stagnant, with many of its residents on the bare edge of survival. The remnants of civilization are in tatters and barely functioning, victims of entropy with no one to maintain them. Against this backdrop, Maher's story follows two heroes-to-be, Martin and Gena. I thought that these characters, along with most others in the novel, were pretty well written. Finding themselves swept up by events not of their own making, the protagonists react just as you or I might - to a point. It is their very believability that made it difficult for me to buy into their heroic behavior as the story progressed. Martin passes certain tests that no one else can, but how? Somehow he simply manages to do so where any other person would fail. Where does this strength come from? It's written as if he virtually walked through his ordeals, and we get no explanation other than that. As for Gena, a girl who grew up alone in the most vicious and cutthroat environment possible, she somehow decides in the end to do the right thing by Martin when she has shown nothing but contempt for all the other characters in the story. Where does this noble impulse come from? These unanswered questions left me with a hint of disappointment precisely because Legend is such a well-written story. I would definitely recommend it, but can't quite give it five stars.
Rating: Summary: An Undiscovered Classic, becoming a cult favorite. Review: After several of my friends hyping this book, I figured it would probably be just another flash in the pan mini-craze: a book for those who loved to love books and movies that nobody else had heard about. Only it turns out that Legend is actually a great book, every bit as good as the culties claim it is.
Rating: Summary: A Wondrous Tale! Review: Exciting adventure, non-stop action, thought provoking situations and characters, all the elements of a truly wonderful novel.
Rating: Summary: ONE OF MY TOP TEN FAVORITE SF CLASSICS! Review: If you haven't read LEGEND yet, you are in for a treat. This is my favorite underground science fiction/fantasy classic and one of my 10 favorites of all science/fiction fantays, maybe one of my 10 favorite books.
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