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Wilbur Smith
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Pages: 784 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0330376314
Pub: Pan Books
Pub date: 2004-05-07
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 19915
Reader Reviews:
One of the worst books ever written... (0/0 people found this helpful)
...unless its how you like to sort cecil. There was no plot, stupidly long and complicated speeches and above all lots of uneccessary sex that in no real way tied in with the book at all. My elder sibling recieved another one of his books for christmas and it seems that along with glory holes and nests of curls, he just copies the same sexual explanations across with no effort of changing it. Buy something else...doesnt matter what
Blue Horizon (0/0 people found this helpful)
My first Wilbur Smith novel was Birds of Prey, quickly followed by Monsoon. Having been drawn into and captivated by the spell binding and enthralling adventures of the Courtney family I needed more, but was concerned at some of the poor reviews given to the sequel Blue Horizon. However I was not at all disappointed. It was equally such a fabulous book to the other two, full of twists and turns that again it was difficult to put the book down. My biggest regret was that the book had to end and I deliberately stretched the last quarter so that it would not finish too quickly. Please Wilbur write a sequel to Blue Horizon so that we can progress the exploits of Dorian, Mansur and Jim.
OK if you enjoy daft speeches and dead animals (5/12 people found this helpful)
Blue Horizon is a typical Wilbur Smith book. An engaging storyline set against the sweeping panorama of colonial Africa is ruined by ridiculous cliché-ridden dialogue straight out of a Mills and Boon novel. Even worse are the repulsive, gloating descriptions of the needless slaughter of wild animals for fun. Like most Wilbur Smith heroes, Jim Courtney can't look at a "magnificent beast" without wanting to kill it.
Escapist entertainment that will sicken any civilised reader.
first disappointment (3/8 people found this helpful)
I have always enjoyed Wilbur Smith novels but this one is such a disappointment. It is so similar to others he has written and I feel there is nothing new in this one. It is therefore so predictable and in the end, I even got a little bored with it! Come on Wilbur, you can do better!
nothing new (0/1 people found this helpful)
I have to agree with some other reviews here - I have read it all before and its just more of Smiths usual recipe - the goodies are very good and are accomplished sailors, horsemen, hunters, traders and linguists, are physically perfect and fall in love at first sight of their equally perfect counterparts (groan) and the baddies are very bad and cruel. Its all just a bit too naive and fantastical compared to his other books.
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