The Red King

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Summary: Still Burning Since 1993
Review: I first read this book when I was in the sixth grade in Westmead Primary School, Sydney, Australia. My teacher Ms. Carr would read it to us in class, as we followed along, staring down at our own copies. I, ofcourse, would go home later that day and read ahead, much to Ms. Carr's chagrin. Now, after ten years, three cross-continent moves, and adolescence I still remember the afternoons when Ms. Carr would read The Red King to us. Sure, I remember the various Paul Jennings books we read, but Victor Kelleher's book with the acrobatic slaves, their collars, a tyrant king, an unworthy master... lingers more than is warranted. Read this book- especially if you are in the sixth grade. I guarantee, you will not forget it.

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Summary: I LOOOOVED IT!!!!
Review: I loved the "Red King" by Victor Kelleher so much I have framed a copy of his book and pray to it every night! I have started a new cult religion that honours the "Red King" and the "Creator" (most holy) Victor Kelleher. The religion is based on the moral teachings of the "Red King" and we pray to our framed copies every night!!
Victor I LUUUVE You!

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Summary: I LOOOOVED IT!!!!
Review: I loved the "Red King" by Victor Kelleher so much I have framed a copy of his book and pray to it every night! I have started a new cult religion that honours the "Red King" and the "Creator" (most holy) Victor Kelleher. The religion is based on the moral teachings of the "Red King" and we pray to our framed copies every night!!
Victor I LUUUVE You!

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Summary: The Red King, a brilliant book from kelleher
Review: The Red King controlls his forest with the threat of disease and death, and there are three unlikley heros that stand in his way. A small monkey, one wily trickster, a gigantic bear and an acrobat slave girl travell through the Red Kings forest to his fortress on a quest to destroy the Red King and steal his gold while there at it. This excellent book is a fantasy/adventure and is written in third person limited, with language that gives the book life with an appropriate amount of description. The characters are three dimensional and have interesting and different trates from eachother, and the greedy and evil trates from the Red King are just some of the things that contribute to make this an excellent which makes the reader wish the book would never end. The ending is maybe just a little bit disappionting and a bit predictable, but the rest of the book is just great. This book can be enjoyed by all ages and is a novel worth reading.

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Summary: The Red King, an entertaining fantasy adventure novel.
Review: The Red King is a great novel, which keeps the reader on the edge of the seat right through out. Although with a dull ending this fantasy adventure novel, with its mixture of antagonist and protagonist characters, gives the reader a real sense of a fictional world with factors much like our own. A communist leader (The Red King)bent on his immortality is ruling the Forest lands with his lethal biological weapon. His unwilling subjects are to fearful to revolt, or are they? This book tells of the quest of a group of performers (a magician, an acrobat immune to the Lethal Red fever, a trained bear and a trained monkey). Victor Kelleher has strived to make this group of performers as believable as possible as they travel to and defeat the Red King.

Victor Kelleher has really succeeded to captivate me in this thrilling novel about a fantasy/adventure quest with striking links to the real world. With great, true characterisation this book is really worth a read.

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Summary: the red king. a review.
Review: The red king. A review.

The red king revolves around a young girl who has been given the red fever. Red fever is a fatal disease unless a certain fruit is used to cure it. The red king creates the red fever and sends his soldiers who are immune to it to spread it amongst those who defy his authority by not paying the heavy tribute he demands. Timkin the acrobat meets with Petie a magician/thief who has 2 companions Bruno a large 10 year old bear and Crystal a tiny agile monkey with an independent mind frame. These 4 unlikely friends set out to stop the red kings tyranny. I liked the fantasy adventure style of this book.

thanks for reading.

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Summary: The Red King; A Joke
Review: This book is a Joke within its own right. The unreliable information and facts in the book are all incorrect, this scares a reader and I myself spent a week hiding in th closet out of fear of the Red Fever before I realised it does not exist. This book is extremely useful for lighting fires, propping up tables and using as a small grenade. Victor Kelleher must have a damn nerve in writing this book and in my opinion, and the rest of the "WE HATE VICTOR KELLEHER SOCIETY" he should be strung up and poked with kebab sticks. If you were not given this book as a present, and did not steal or find this book, then I will have to assume that you paid real money for this book, in that case you are a damn fool. The content in this book is highly violent, has extreme profanity, horror themes and strong sexual content. Not suitable for persons under 15 years. This is Anne Sanders, signing off.

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Summary: The Red King, good........Nahhh
Review: This book was... how would you say it...boring! Although the strange and arogant Petie, his monkey, his bought slave Timkin, and... his bear? covered alot of ground and ran into a mere couple of things it seemed they were waffling on, not getting anywhere in the story. I had trouble getting to the end at around page 120. It seemed those last 45 last pages would never come, and yes i did look at how many pages there were to the end, just wishing it would come sooner.The ending was terrible, simply insignificant, they killed the (so called) king in one page! Not much of a lead up, no suspense, plain boring. In future i will not be reading this again and i don't think many will!