The Walking Drum by Louis L'Amour Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Walking Drum
Book Review: I hope I find a sequel someday
Summary: 5 Stars
I am 15 and I read alot. I love Tolkien and midevil setting books especially fantasy. I saw this book in a bag of books my neighbors were going to throw away. It's amzing how much a random book can touch your life. This was a superb book and I love to learn while I read. I am simply sorry to hear there is no sequel. The ending begs for a sequel and so do all the readers. Who knows, maybe with so many people wishing, a miracle just may come true.Book Review: I was made to read this book for history class
Summary: 1 Stars
this book in my opinion is simply horrid. i usually adore reading, and have probably thousands of books in my home. If action and romance are all you want, then this book can supply short intervals of that. If you are more of a person who treasures symbolism and learning about human nature, then this book will utterly bore you.Book Review: I'm trapped in an adventure novel and I can't get out!
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm actually a fan of Louis L'Amour and his westerns, so I was pretty excited about the idea of him writing a medieval adventure novel. However, I was very disappointed with "The Walking Drum". The book is basically a series of repetitive adventures involving Kerbouchard (another of L'Amour's supermen)getting into trouble and getting back out again. Repeat, ad finitum. The only thing that seems to change is the backdrop. That L'Amour knew the places and histories he was writing about firsthand is obvious. He was always good at making the settings of his books very vivid and living parts of his books. But the actual structure of the novel's plot -- well, here it's just a hodgepodge. By the time Kerbouchard rescued his father I just wanted to get the darn book finished already. Definitely not one of his best.Book Review: I've read it over and over again!
Summary: 5 Stars
This a great, swashbuckling historical epic! For those who know L'Amour as only a Western author, this book comes as a shock. He goes back to his French roots and produces a grand novel of a heroic, larger than life young man overcoming great challenges physically while developing intellectually. He does this in a little known period of history (1200 A.D.), giving great respect to the European Muslim and Middle Eastern worlds. Simply great entertainment from a master storyteller! I've wished many times he would have written at least two sequels.Book Review: IF REPETION IS THE LAW OF ABIDING IMPRESSIONS, THEN....
Summary: 2 Stars
I love Louis L'amour westerns and I had great hopes that this non-western "WALKING DRUM" would equal the excellence of his westerns--and it did for several chapters. After awhile, however, the book became so repetitive that you could anticipate what would happen next. I gave the book 2 stars only because it did keep my interest for a few chapters.