Biography - Clavell, James (duMaresq) (1924-1994): An ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 16 Publication Date: 2003-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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King Rat
Trading Conscience for Survival in a Japanese POW Camp: The setting is a Japanese POW camp near Singapore in early 1945. After years of Japanese neglect, near starvation diets, tropical diseases, and increasing hopelessness of liberation, British, [... more]
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Gai-Jin
In spite of an great start more than half of "Gai-Jin" gets bogged down in tedium, making it not James Clavell's best book: I don't think it's a stretch to say that if you love historical epics at some point you're going to make the [... more]
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Escape: The Love Story from Whirlwind
Watered down Whirlwind...: Unfortunately, James Clavell and his publisher fought during the last few years of his life. The result was that his final Asian saga novel, Whirlwind, is out of print. Escape is a watered down version of that novel, developed [... more]
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Shogun
A Classic Epic of Breathtaking Scope: Every two or three years, I have brought out Shogun and reread it which now amounts to about twelve times. Every time, the book takes on new dimensions and tones. The story of John Blackthorne, a Dutch seafarer who [... more]
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Tai-Pan
Fantastical good in spite of the fact I didn't really enjoy reading it: Shogun was kind of an odd book for me because even though I loved it, really loved, I didn't really enjoy reading it. The same thing happened with "Tai-Pan." This is a [... more]
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King Rat
Harrowing, Unforgettable...King Rat rules.: I cannot believe the previous reviewer and I had the same book. King Rat stands up there with the classic Ivan Denisovich any way you read it...for the great story, or for its cynical look into men's souls. [... more]
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Shogun Part 1 Of 3
Book is great...audio-version is a disaster!: I'm very sorry. The past year has seen a shift in my reading habits from paper-versions of books to the audio-versions. Audio I find preferable as you can read it in bed AND in the dark, without your hands [... more]
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Tai-Pan
Fantastical good in spite of the fact I didn't really enjoy reading it: Shogun was kind of an odd book for me because even though I loved it, really loved, I didn't really enjoy reading it. The same thing happened with "Tai-Pan." This is a [... more]
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The Children's Story
Chilling and plausible: I first saw a "real time" teleplay of this back in the early 80's before I ever started having children, and made it a point to get a copy of the book when I was only 17. It was obviously written during the Cold War, but [... more]
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Thrump-O-Moto
A richly illustrated, magnificent fantasy for all ages..: Clavell's Thrump-O-Moto is nothing short of a literary masterpiece. This fantasy begins with a lazy rural afternoon and leaps across continents and through time warps with a most informal and [... more]
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Tai-Pan
Author: James Clavell Binding: Kindle Edition Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 Format: Kindle Book Number Of Pages: 736 Publication Date: 2008-11-14 Release Date: 2008-11-12 [... more]
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