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Title: The Star Rover by Jack London, Hugh Collins, T.C. Campbell ISBN: 0-86241-887-9 Publisher: Canongate Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Star Rover
Comment: An Excellent, yet not very well known book by Jack London. It's inspired by a real story of an innocently sentenced man, Ed Morrell, whom we find to participate in the book.The main character is Darrel Standing, university profesor sentenced for his life to San Quentin jail and is then sentenced to death for hitting a warden in nose. London describes the suffering and solitude of a criminal who finds his freedom in a world of dreams and memories of recent lives his soul went through. London shows the strength of a man's soul, which cannot be broken even by the worst tortures. An extraordinary book, really a must-read.
Rating: 1
Summary: Star Rover Review
Comment: Well I think that this book was not the book I was looking for, it starts out well and very descriptive, but as you go on into the book it gets worse and worse, chapter by chapter. I personaly will probably never read another Jack London book because this one was so borring.
Rating: 5
Summary: It's Indiana Jones meets HBO's Oz....
Comment: Jack London's Star Rover surprised me on every page. It's a riveting, action-packed adventure tale filled with gritty heroes and villains, and fascinating settings, both grim and glorious. The protagonist is a fabulous anti hero, a cross between Indiana Jones and a character straight out of HBO's prison drama Oz.
The characters are so well defined, from the sadistic warden to prisoners Ed and Jack, whom we never really see, and only know through intricate, faceless conversations. The lead character, Darrell Standing, is wily, handsome, intrincsically good, but hardened and made cruel by the warden's treatment. Charming and dangerous, he's just the sort of bad-boy we love to root for. Ed and Jack, his two fellow prisoners, are perfect foils, one believing and encouranging, the other skeptical but reluctanly fascinated nonetheless. The warden makes a formidable, multi-faceted villain, at turns weak and cruel, and inventive in his tortures. What a wonderful read!
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Title: Street Boys by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0345410998 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Safe Place : The True Story of a Father,a Son,a Murder by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0345383486 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: No Mentor but Myself: Jack London on Writers and Writing by Jack London, Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Dale L. Walker ISBN: 0804736367 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Apaches by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0345422511 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Gangster by Lorenzo Carcaterra ISBN: 0345425294 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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