The Quest

click here for more details, find new or used items	Wilbur Smith Our price £4.20 (£7.99) New from £1.05 Used from £0.01 Pages: 512 (Paperback) ISBN: 0330412728 Pub: Pan Pub date: 2008-04-04 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10012

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The worst book I ever read (0/0 people found this helpful)

I read River God many years ago and loved it. Some years ago I read Warlock and enjoyed it - eventhough I wasn't as good as the first one. Now I've read The Quest and it was possibly the worst book I ever read. The beginning of the book was ok - somewhat fantastic and weird, but I like magic and fantasy and based on the previous books I hoped the story would improve. It didn't. Suddenly a 156-year old man and a 12-year old girl falls in love and are sexually attracted to eachother and at the same time it gets clear that the climax of the book will indeed be a sexual climax between our main character and a demigod. Furthermore the story is endless, the more than a hundred pages end to the story is just one long back-track to Egypt where nothing happens at all. I am so supprised that something like this gets published. The 'love' in this story is simple and based on stereotypes and sometimes revolting and the 'science/magic' is weird and stupid. Don't read it. The only reason I finished it was because I felt I had invested much in it (having already read the previous books and the first 300p in this one).

miss poppy (0/1 people found this helpful)

Bought as a gift for my husband. He's delighted with it. Prompt delivery; great, safe packaging. Cannot fault the service or the product. Well done.

Dreadful (1/1 people found this helpful)

Without doubt the worst Wilbur Smith book i have read - what happened was it ghost written? Totally ridiculous story when added to the previous in the Taita books

The Quest (0/0 people found this helpful)

I have now completed my collection of Wilbur Smith books, but The Quest was one of the best for action, in fact everything, although a bit bloody in parts, and away from S.Africa, still a brilliant book. Will Wilbur be able to better this one?? Awaiting another epic with trepidation!!Maybe in 2010? Only wish I could meet this great author in person to say Thankyou.

What a massive disappointment (0/0 people found this helpful)

I've been reading Wilbur Smith's books for about 30 years and he's one of the few authors whose books I will always buy new because he rarely disappoints. So what a let-down this was. I have enjoyed his previous Egyptian novels. Like his Courtney and Ballantyne series they were well-researched, well written and almost believable. With this latest book he seems to have completely lost the plot. There has always been sexual content in his books but this time it seems to be on every other page and often introduced in a totally contrived way just for the sake of it. I'd agree with other reviewers that at times the lust of an elderly man after a pre-pubescent girl is bordering on being offensive. It certainly isn't a good story!

The whole "regeneration" thing had me actually laughing out loud at the sheer stupidity of it. I like Science Fiction and Fantasy books but this was just contrived rubbish.

Please drop the "old man, young girl" sexual fantasy stuff Wilbur and get back to what you do well - writing about Africa in a way that makes it come alive.

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