River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Wilbur Smith
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Book Reviews of River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
Book Review: Thank Heaven I can return it to the library!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
<Shudders> It was horribe! Not a single character was believable. There were times when I felt sympathetic to Taita, the all-knowing, toot-his-own-horn slave, but those times were short-lived. The flowery/snobbish language made me want to puke. I don't think you could go more than two or three pages without the author saying "this very Egypt" or "our very Egypt". It got old quick. It may have been a good book if it was no more than 350 pages, but I couldn't finish. I'm so glad I didn't buy it.Book Review: The bottom of the cesspool
Summary: 1 Stars
This book is a bloody slab of ugliness, and one of the rare books I simply refuse to finish. It's about mutilation and torture (particularly sexual forms of each), in a setting of treachery and megalomania. And, even after searching for three hours, there's not a thing in it to make it worth wading through all the sludge. The story is astonishingly awful.
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The reader is a flaming over-actor, and presents the story as if to a group of pre-teens, despite the quintuple-X rating.
Book Review: Complete drivil - no redeeming value.
Summary: 1 Stars
This is perhaps the 2nd worst book I have read in the last 5 years (the first being The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease). Between the horrible anachronisms, unending similes and the totally unbelievability of the protagonist I just could not take it anymore. Even da Vinci, Einstein, Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Salk and Bobby Flay rolled into one, would not be as perfect as the main character in this story. If you don't want to waste your time, don't read it. Almost anything else would be better.Book Review: A Hot Mess
Summary: 1 Stars
I have thoroughly enjoyed several of Smith's books. But not this one. Historical fiction can be fun. Fantasy can be fun. But why the author chose to take an era that had real history, real people and real rulers and then make up some crazy non-historical jibberish to fill it is beyond me. I was terribly disappointed and am sorry I bothered to read it. I prefer to recall the author whose work I enjoyed prior to running across this random mishmash.