Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: The Sunbird by Wilbur Smith ISBN: 0-312-98339-5 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 December, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (32 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Eerie and entertaining
Comment: I've recently re-read "The Sunbird" after many years, and found it just as terrific a read as ever. Without giving away any plot points, what got me the first time still gets me, the well-executed parallel stories, modern and ancient. The charge of racism voiced by several reviewers is perhaps understandable, but one has to keep in mind that the book was written at a time (the late 1960s) when the kinds of events described in the "modern" section of the story (tribal Africans taking up arms against descendants of white colonists) were common. I didn't find Timothy Mageba a one-dimensional caricature, but a complex and conflicted man who finds it necessary to sacrifice personal loyalties for what he believes is a larger good. Anyway, I don't want to make the book sound like a Poli Sci text, it's a fast, entertaining read, full of intrigue and romance, and eerie enough to make your hair stand up a little at times. Worth a read.
Rating: 2
Summary: Great story, awfully written
Comment: This book contains an excellent story based on a very clever idea (the parallel lives). However, this book reads like a cheap romance novel at times, one of the lead characters is extremely handsome and brave and strong and .... Another is an extremely beautiful woman, the other a phyisically deformed genius. Some of the dialogue made me wince - the constant references to the Lo's handsome features, the constant references to doctor Kazin's intelligence.
I will definitely not read any other of Wilbur Smith's books!
Rating: 1
Summary: Only Wilbur Smith book I could not finish
Comment: I've read several WS books but by the time I got to the second half of the book, I gave up. The story went nowhere.
Suggest the Seventh Scroll or Birds of Prey, much better.
 |
Title: Blue Horizon by Wilbur Smith ISBN: 0312278241 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
 |
Title: Warlock : A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Wilbur Smith ISBN: 0312980388 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
 |
Title: The Eye of the Tiger by Wilbur Smith ISBN: 0312979398 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
 |
Title: The Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith ISBN: 0312957572 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
 |
Title: Sound of Thunder by WILBUR SMITH ISBN: 044914819X Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 24 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
