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Title: Asterix the Gaul by Albert Uderzo, Rene Goscinny ISBN: 0-7528-6605-2 Publisher: Orion Pub. Date: 01 September, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Asterix The Gaul-Start a tradition
Comment: This is the first book in a series about Asterix, his funny friend Obelix, and the wise druid, Getafix. These hilarious adventures take place in the Roman Era. Goscinny and Uderzo do a splendid job of capturing you in the first book of this priceless collection.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent comic
Comment: The Asterix series carries a magic that is hard to describe. The clever antics and grand adventures of this courageous warrior make the series an epic saga loved by all of Europe. It's too bad it never really arrived in the US.
Rating: 4
Summary: The first in a great series
Comment: Asterix The Gaul was first published in French in 1961 and in English only in 1969.
The first of the Asterix books , it is a very clever and witty piece of work on the Roman occupation of Gaul in 50 BC-with a fair amount of Latin quips in too -read Asterix and you'll soon become familiar with 'Quid' , 'Vae victo , vae victus' and 'Morituri te salutant'.
It begins with the familiar scene of well thumped Roman legionnaires reporting their defeat to an incensed Roman centurion (in this case Crismus Bonus) who then hatches a plan to deal with the Gauls which our heroes always in the end foil.
It also includes such recurring themes as Cacofonix and his hated singing , the magic potion (and why Obelix cannot have any ) and a guest appearance by Julius Caesar.It ends as always without he Gauls feasting their heroes 'under a starry sky...victorious over their enemies , thanks to magic the protection of the gods and low cunning'.
Unlike all of its successors in this book , Obelix does not even offer to accompany Asterix on his adventure (which is so unlike the Obelix we know from all of the other Asterix books).
There are some gaps in the dialogue and there is unusually not one woman or girl in the first book . drawbacks which will be made up for in the other Asterix books.
Nevertheless it is a great start to your Asterix collection and an amusing little book.
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Title: Asterix and the Golden Sickle by Albert Uderzo, Rene Goscinny ISBN: 0752866133 Publisher: Orion Pub. Date: 01 September, 2004 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Asterix and Cleopatra (Book 4) by R. Goscinny, M. Uderzo ISBN: 0340042397 Publisher: French & European Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Asterix and the Black Gold by Albert Uderzo ISBN: 0752847740 Publisher: Orion Pub. Date: 28 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Asterix the Gladiator (Adventures of Asterix) by Rene de Goscinny, Goscinny ISBN: 0917201558 Publisher: Dargaud Intl Pub Ltd Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Asterix and the Banquet by R. Goscinny ISBN: 0340231742 Publisher: French & European Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1976 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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