Adventures of Willy the Wizard: Livid Land No. 1 [Import] [Paperback]

ADRIAN JACOBS (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 36 pages
• Publisher: BACHMAN AND TURNER (1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0859741443
• ISBN-13: 978-0859741446
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,446,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unreadable Tripe, July 29, 2010

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Jim (Jacksonville, Fl United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adventures of Willy the Wizard: Livid Land No. 1 (Paperback)

Haven't read the whole book, and at $95 am unlikely to, but I have read all the online excerpts and the full text of the Harry Potter lawsuit. I see no resemblance other than a character solves a puzzle in the bathtub. Archimedes, anyone?

I'm betting all the alleged plagiarisms turn out to be common story elements. There certainly isn't any comparison in the plots or characters.

Just for fun I did a web search on underwater rescues and found a 1960 Tom Swift book in which Tom invents artificial gills and competes against the Bungarians. Harry, of course, gets artificial gills and competes against a Bulgarian.

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written just based on the "extracts", July 20, 2010

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Angela - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adventures of Willy the Wizard: Livid Land No. 1 (Paperback)

I'll tell you up front I've not read this book. I wanted to, but then found that only seven libraries worldwide own this book. SEVEN! That's insane. A quality children's book will be owned by far more libraries than that.

So I searched and found the website by this author's estate. Please look for it. They have "extracts" of the book for you to read. Please read them and form your own opinion.

To me, they read like a bad English translation of a foreign work. The writing on the website itself is pretty bad too. This is simply not a well written work.

25 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth buying, borrow if you can, June 16, 2009

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A. Tsai (Berkely, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adventures of Willy the Wizard: Livid Land No. 1 (Paperback)

This tiny book is under 40 pgs long. The story can be read while waiting for a pot of water to boil. It is definitely a young children's book about young wizard with your typical plots and themes.

It will probably best be remembered as the story JK Rowling allegedly plagiarized for her Harry Potter novels (specifically Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire).