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The High House

The High House

List Price: $6.50
Your Price: $5.85
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Walking hallways waiting for anarchists to pop out.....
Review: This was an excellent first novel, I walked many a mile with the Andersons..... very entertaining and very engrossing, could not put the book down, Characters were great and situations and descriptions all top notch.... Keep 'em coming!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: May be enjoyed by Harry Potter fans
Review: Though it doesn't include the humor that the Potter books have, I see similarites between High House and the Potter books--young man learning magical powers. The plot moves quickly with plenty of action, though sometimes I wondered how Carter could be so naive as to fall for the traps of his evil opponents, e.g., the Child (Order Incarnate). Otherwise, I would have given this book a 5. I greatly appreciated finding an entertaining read sans vulgar language and sex. Kudos to the author for proving it can be done with style! I'm looking forward to the sequel.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Imaginative, brilliant, a modern literary masterpeice
Review: Though this novel was written in 1999, you can't help but beleiving it was written in 1899. The characters are so real it seems you forget that you havent been conversing with them yourself. The story is so rich, the wondrous mansion. A house that never ends. You can smell the old wooden scent rising from the floors. Feel the warm light streaming through the windows. Enjoy (Well sort of) talks with dragons and be frightened by the horrors that await in distant rooms. And flee from your pursuers down endless halls and through secret passages in walls and floors. And overcome your fears as the characters overcome theirs.

Ok what are you waiting for buy it!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: good story, but not traditional fantasy
Review: When I picked up this book I thought I'd find a a story more similar to traditional fantasy. Instead, the it is a melding of two worlds, such as the Narnia books. The characters don't seem to complex at first, but later their details unfold. Its an okay story, the classic 'good vs. evil' plot, but if you're looking for something more traditional, such as Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth, or Robert Jordan's Wheel of time, then this book probably isn't for you. A little too hokey for my taste, but not bad.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A very annoying book
Review: While it's been a long time since I tried (unsucessfully) to read this book, I thought I'd at least stop in to give my support to the "High House haters" camp, which seems to be in the minority here (god knows why). I'm also an anarchist, and while the book didn't exactly enrage me, it did give me a couple of hours of twisted entertainment before I set it down forever, shaking my head. Anarcho-trashing aside, I thought the supposedly "deep" good'n'evil theme was so mind-bogglingly, stupidly obvious (not to mention better done in literary masterpeices such as "Star Wars") that, even in a skimming of the book, I wondered how anyone could call it a "masterpeice". Anyway, that's my opinion. -Another serious-minded, unimaginative anarchist- Ferret


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