CompleteMartialArts.com - Casca 19 The Samurai (Casca, No 19)
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List Price: $3.99
Our Price: $14.99
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Jove
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780515095166
ISBN: 0515095168
Label: Jove
Manufacturer: Jove
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 171
Publication Date: 1988-04-01
Publisher: Jove
Studio: Jove
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Editorial Reviews:
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Condemned to outlive the ages and wander the globe, Casca finds himself in feudal Japan, where he joins forces with the legendary samurai warrior, Muramassa. Reissue.
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Summary: Back seat Casca
Comment: While more interesting than many of the Cascas between 13-21, this one was a little different in that Casca wasn't the main character. The chief actor in this story was Jinto Muramasa, swordsman and fugitive. Casca hitches up with him early on and throughout this book has the appearance of a passenger.
I think the writer had read too much of the Five Rings prior to writing this story and it was something more of a tourists guide to 12th century Japan rather than a typical Casca action story. It held me - just - but came up a little short of what I hoped for in a story of civil war. You just didn't get sucked into the action except maybe towards the end when both sides came together for the final reckoning.
A little too detatched for my liking and written by someone who wasn't really interested in the rest of the series.
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Summary: Swords and Honor
Comment: I quite enjoyed this story, even though Casca was not clearly the main character here. He was obviously out of place in 11th century feudal Japan and maybe the writer wanted to portray this. Casca and his Japanese buddy travel to a fortress, evading capture on the way, and take part in a civil war that ends with a huge battle by the sea. Casca falls foul of a court intrigue and is banished. Nice ending.
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Summary: Yet another great idea washed away...
Comment: This was another Asian adventure that I was hoping could topple the past ones. Though a tad better than his last one, not as good as The Warlord.
Barry seemed to have good ideas, but after Book #14, the series was seriously running out of steam. It saddened me then, and still saddens me now. Barry Sadler was either running out of time or ideas, or I was hoping other writers could refreshen a series that still holds alot of great adventerous potential.
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Summary: Casca's Japanese adventure
Comment: Casca ends up washed ashore in feudal Japan and is taken under the wing of expert swordsman Jinto Muramasa and together the two embark on a bloody spree through Japan to bring a warlord to victory over his deadly rivals.
The passage relating to the manufacture of a sword is brilliantly done and some aspects of Japanese court ritual are interesting but sometimes the plot wears a little thin and some of it feels like its mere filling. But nonetheless its a good story and worth keeping.
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