Baal [Paperback]

Robert R. McCammon (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Pocket Books (1978)
• ASIN: B000S880LA
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,677,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert McCammon is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels, including the award-winning Boy's Life and Speaks the Nightbird. There are more than four million copies of his books in print. His latest novel, MISTER SLAUGHTER, is the third book in the Matthew Corbett series. It is available now from Subterranean Press. Look for THE FIVE in Spring 2011!

Visit his websites: www.robertmccammon.com and www.matthewcorbettsworld.com

Customer Reviews

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Go Read Boy's Life!, October 8, 2006

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P. Robinson "Relic113" (Calgary) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BAAL (Paperback)

Even Mccammon admits that Baal wasn't his best work. I have to agree, which hurts me because Mccammon wrote the incredible Boys Life (best book ever), and Swan Song (Go read these now!), but I didn't care for Baal much. Baal is the progeny of Satan via the rape of a poor woman, whose tale for the first 40 pages is engrossing and very entertaining as she beings to suspect that there is something wrong with her son...Then the tale moves to the next two phases of Baal's life - the orphanage, and as an adult as he amasses his fanatic zealots to aid his cause of chaos. And it is in these last 2 parts that the tale turns south.
If you are a die-hard fan of Mccammon(as I am), you have to read it, but just don't expect it to come close to anything else he has written - but to be fair this was his first book, and the first 40 pages are certainly foreshadow of the writer he would become.

Relic113

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Immature ramblings of an Angry Young Man, October 16, 2002

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"neznama" (Atlanta, Ga United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BAAL (Paperback)

This book was awful. The story boring and predictable, not to mention a bit confusing historically (Baal was banished by the Hebrews), the characters totally unbelievable. If you are looking for an intro to Bob McCammon, do yourself a favor and read Swan Song or Mine, two extraordinary novels of horrific proportions, edgy and energetic, frighteningly vivid.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For anyone who believes in the unbelievable..., July 8, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: BAAL (Paperback)

...this is the perfect novel. This novel will thrill you and keep you in suspense days after you've finished reading it.