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Title: Helm by Steven Gould ISBN: 0-8125-7135-5 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 February, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: I first met up with Gould's writing in Jumper, and loved it. I then read Wildside, and fell in love with the book. Later, I bought both books, found Helm in the library, read it, loved it, and an hour after I finished the book, I bought it.
What I love about Helm, is that I have to keep telling myself that this is NOT medieval times, but about a millenium in the future. I loved the aikido scenes, and the twisting plot. Out of all of Gould's books, this has to be the most vivid and gigantic in terms of the world that Gould has to explain and forsee. I recommend anyone who even liked Helm, to read Jumper, Wildside, and Blind Waves. I myself now have three out of these books, and am thinking of buying Blind Waves.
Good luck to all, and, Mr.Gould, keep on writing!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book -- difficult to put down!
Comment: After reading 2 of the author's previous books, Jumper and Wildside, and really enjoying them, I had high expectations for Helm -- and fortunately I was not disappointed. Gould drives the plot relentlessly throughout the book. The martial arts parts are highly readable and very entertaining. My only criticisms with the book are 1) as a previous reviewer mentioned, a few of the characters were difficult to delineate from one another early on, but not overly so, and 2) the ending is good, but seems to be lackluster compared to the incredible first 90% of the book. Overall, Helm is a great and fairly quick read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonderfully Different and Imaginative!
Comment: "Helm" is one of the better stories I have read in a long time. It is well written, the story line is fresh, new and well thought out. The characters, other than the principal two or three are not so exhaustively deep as to boar or to slow down the work. The principals are well developed, certainly well enough for this story. This is a single self-contained story, no series, no trilogy, a great rarity these days and a welcome one I might add.
It has everything, a little action, a little romance, a little intrigue. There are parts where martial arts practice are describe in some detail and that can drag just a little, but these parts are fairly short and presented well enough to be interesting to most.
I liked this book. I liked it enough to make it part of my permanent collection and that doesn't happen every often anymore. I have found myself rereading it at least half a dozen times.
Highly recommended.
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Title: Blind Waves by Steven Gould ISBN: 0812571096 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Wildside by Steven Gould ISBN: 0812523989 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Jumper : A Novel by Steven Gould ISBN: 0765342286 Publisher: Starscape Pub. Date: 18 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: 1634 : The Galileo Affair by Andrew Dennis, Eric Flint ISBN: 0743488156 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Trading in Danger by ELIZABETH MOON ISBN: 0345447603 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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