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Summary: Witch Haters Delight
Review: 'Treasure Box' is a stunning change of pace for Orson Scott Cord.
The concept is so simple that it astounds! The characters really make this an enchanting tale in more ways than one. I was never enthralled with horror type stories because they were too predictable,
but Card could make me a believer. The book jacket is right, Card
is making an auspicious debut into mainstream writing.
Rating: 
Summary: One star, just for being a book.
Review: Any book should get at least one star as a step up from reading the backs of cereal boxes. But Treasure Box ranks right up there as possibly the worst book I've ever read.For the record, I'm a Card fan who has read at least a dozen of his other books, so I was tickled to find Treasure Box at Borders. It was gross - based on mythical devil and witch stuff. No complex, engaging characters struggling with moral dilemmas like we have come to expect with Card. None of the creative imagination we love about Card. All that was accomplished was to be extremely dark and extremely silly at the same time. Maybe Anne Rice could have pulled this one off, but I doubt it. :-(
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Summary: Card is bored with Sci-Fi
Review: As of late, one can tell that Orson Scott Card is tired of
writing science fiction. This brings great regret to me, as his method of writing, story telling, and general style
are excellent for the science fiction section. This book is
not for those who "treasure" his science fiction works, but none the less, it is a good read.
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Summary: A creepy, cautionary tale about power
Review: Card departs from his better known genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy to provide a supernatural suspense story about the use and abuse of power (He raises some interesting points about extreme wealth providing extreme power). Very little in this story is quite as it first seems, and the twists keep coming until the very end. Card's storytelling skill draw you into the settings and take you along for the ride. His attention to detail is also impressive. I lived near the Northern Virginia locations in this book during to period the story is set, and I found all of his descriptions to be absolutely accurate! If you have enjoyed other works by Card, then you probably will enjoy this one as well.
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Summary: What a disappointment ! ! ! The badest book of OSC .
Review: First of all excuse if my english isn't very good but I'm french. I've red all books of OSC translated in french and I love all of them. "Ender's game", "Red prophet" are wonderful books and then ... I've bought "Treasure box" and what a disappointement !! The characters of this book are uninteresting, the story has no originality, it is a horror book like every each other. Compared to Orson Scott Card's short story "Eumenides in the fourth floor lavaroty" ... I don't have enough english words to say all the bad opinion I have of this book.
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Summary: Dreck
Review: How this man managed to get published once boggles my mind! Much less book after book. All we need to know about what is wrong with publishing is to read a book like this. It is infantile, uninspired, amateurish writing of the worst kind.
Rating:
Summary: A quick pleasurable read with good plot twists.
Review: I am a loyal OSC reader and thoroughly enjoyed this book. In this book Mr. Card opens up the afterburners and doesn't look back. This book doesn't get bogged down like some of his SF novels. I especially enjoyed the eerie quality of the novel. I hope Mr. Card writes more of these types of novels as they are a nice diversion from his normal novels.
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Summary: Excellent Start! (no warrenty for the end)
Review: I am a very avid OSC fan. I read quite a lot of his Sci-Fi, and enjoyed it a great deal. As it happened, I read "Treasure Box" immediately after I finished "Pastwatch", and I was thrilled to see OSC pulling a winner, again. The book 'had' me after the first chapter or two. I could not let the book out of my hands for a few days, and I kept on being charmed by Quentin's character, his story, the way Card built certain anticipation and then ruined it... the works. However, at some point around page 250, I began to wonder where did all my excitement go. The book that was a moment ago a brilliant book of a man who lost his life at 11, suddenly turned into a very, very mild thriller with houses eating men alive and witches placing body parts in all sortsof weird places. I will admit I kept reading the book to the end in record time of less than 4 days (given that English is not my native language, this IS record, broken only by... Hmm.... any other book by card :P). So if you like thriller's, or OSC, or simply have to choose this to John Grishem... well, then get it. If you have to choose T"B with Pastwatch, or re-reading the Ender saga, or some other good fiction... well, in that case, the box will be left closed.
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Summary: A great ghost story from a great writer
Review: I don't want to go over any material already stated here, save to say that I can't imagine how one can go "too far" when dealing with the supernatural as was stated in one of the other reviews. This is a fun read, best absorbed between the witching hour and early morning. . . Well worth a read.
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Summary: SOMEONE TELL MR. CARD TO DO MORE LIKE TREASURE BOX
Review: I GENERALLY DON'T LIKE SCIENCE FICTION. (I DON'T KNOW HOW THOSE SCIENCE FICTION READERS CAN HOLD A HARDBACK WITH ONE HAND AND READ) I SUPPOSE THAT THE PUREST MIGHT SAY TREASURE BOX IS NOT REALLY SCIENCE FICTION - WHO CARES... THIS WAS GREAT! I HAVE TRIED OTHER CARD BOOKS BUT THEY'RE NOT MY UP OF TEA. I KNOW CARD CAN WRITE WELL. I 'LL KEEP LOOKING FOR ANOTHER LIKE THIS ONE. TELL NON-SCI/FI READERS TO GIVE THIS ONE A TRY.
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