Customer Reviews

Cluster (Cluster, Book 1)

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Cluster is the first book in a 5-book sci fi series from Piers Anthony. It is highly recommended for entertainment. Follow the adventures of Flint, a cave-man in a futuristic universe. The alien species created by Mr. Anthony are very interesting both culturally and anatomically. The commentary on inter-species prejudice is a valuable reflection upon modern society. This is a short book, about 300 pages.

I had this series when I was a teen. I decided to purchase it for the Kindle so I could relive the magic of this series, Anthony has a real talent for creating believable but truly alien aliens. The story itself is fantastic, but I have to take away points for the total lack of proofreading in the text. It is very distracting to run across spelling and syntax errors in EVERY page. Hopefully this will end up being re-submitted to Kindle store in the future with the errors fixed. Sadly until then, I am not purchasing the rest of the series. of course Your Milage May Vary.

ok first off I love piers anthony but this book was ok at best kinda dragged on it was a time waster which is why i got it but there are better books out there

I read the Cluster series over 10 years ago in original paperback form, and I still enjoy this first book the most.

Beware though, there are enough bugs in this edition's kindle version to leave me scratching my head in disbelief.

This is a fantastic first book in a series from what I consider the golden age of Piers Anthony. As one of the other reviewers said, there are some typos, but not nearly enough to make it unreadable. On average I noticed maybe one typo every 1 to 2 pages (6" Kindle pages). I have read many of Piers Anthony's early works in paperback and I don't recall any that didn't have a few typos. Actually I was quite pleased to see Piers' use of overstriking lines over letters and symbols in the aliens names and language to come across perfectly in the Kindle version of this book. You can get a good idea if you'll like it if you read the free sample which is two chapters. The real twists and turns take place much later though.

I wish they would have put as much effort in proofing the text as they did in designing new covers for the series. This e-book was evidently a very quickly put-together scan job that wasn't even proofed or spell-checked very well before being submitted to the Kindle book store. The spelling errors due to the poor OCR are numerous and distracting. I wouldn't have purchased this book if there would have been some way to tell how bad the scan of the text was in advance.

Cluster is a very in depth book that alows you to imagen about aura's and host bodies. An all around good book.

The characters in this book are great. I would recomend it to anyone.