Damnation Road Show (Deathlands) [Mass Market Paperback]

James Axler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2003

Survive or perish in the dark heart of tomorrow.

HELL ROAD

In the ruins of a nuke-shattered America, every man, woman and child of the apocalyptic frontier makes a perilous journey to the future. But there is a fork that divides the path toward humanity reborn . . . and the road deep into the hell that is Deathlands. Ryan Cawdor made his choice long ago, in this barbaric new world that conspires against hope . . .

MONSTERS, MUTIES AND FREAKS

Eerie remnants of pre-Dark times linger a century after the nuclear blowout. But a traveling road show gives new meaning to the word chilling. Ryan and his warrior group have witnessed this carny's handiwork in the ruins and victims of unsuspecting villes. Even facing tremendous odds does nothing to deter the companions from challenging this wandering death merchant and an army of circus freaks. And no one is aware that a steel-eyed monster from the past is preparing a private act that would give Ryan star billing . . .

In the Deathlands, all you get is a one-way ticket.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Gold Eagle; First Edition edition (June 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373625723
• ISBN-13: 978-0373625727
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,375,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What the ****?, January 11, 2004

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Anthony Norris (PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Damnation Road Show (Deathlands) (Mass Market Paperback)

This story makes absolutly no sense. The author is trying for science fiction instead of just action but ends up with a horrible mess. The total insanity includes
1. A giant mutant mountain lion who can communicate telopathicely with a member of the party, tortures his victims so that he can prove he is alive, and has either lived through everthing that is happening or a precog.
2. A prenuclear war experiment that involves hallucinagenic snow, mind controlling fish(or a lake it is never really explained) and a symbiotic fungi.
3. Very limited action, one running gun battle and a fight between Doc Tanner(the most infirm of the group) and the secondary bad guy.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Deathlands: Damnation Road Show, July 24, 2003

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"asugi" (Brentwood, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Damnation Road Show (Deathlands) (Mass Market Paperback)

While reading Damnation Road Show, I found myself seriously considering the possibility that the Deathlands series is either being written by someone other than Axler, or he has undergone a serious change in the style of his writing. Damnation Road Show, while the story itself was very entertaining, the characters seemed a bit off. J.B. didn't seem stoic enough, Ryan not terse enough, Mildred lost her sarcastic edge, Jak's dialogue wasn't his usual one-to-two word responses, and Doc's usual eloquence was no where in evidence. Dean, a rapidly maturing young man in previous novels, regressed into a rather normal 12 year old, his steely edge gone. In Amazon's Gate (the previous novel), I first suspected that the series was being taken over by others, and Damnation Road Show confirms my suspicions. Since the whole Deathlands series is centered around the relationships between the core characters, the adventure itself coming in second, this change has seriously affected the entertainment value of this book, giving it a rather cartoonish quality.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Axler writes a nail biter, May 16, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Damnation Road Show (Deathlands) (Mass Market Paperback)

I don't know what kind of spores the other reviewers have been breathing but I had a lot of fun with this one. I loved the the traveling road show idea and I loved the mountian lion. I would like to see more of him. The magus was way cool. If I had a bitch it would be that it was too short. This was another good one in a great series.

I like the way that Axler builds up to confrontations. It seems to take a long time and every page is a nail biter. The more wacked out the Deathlands get the better the read.