Descent From Xanadu [Hardcover]

Harold Robbins (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1969)
• ASIN: B002RH2WDW
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Descent from Xanadu, September 5, 2006

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NoWireHangers (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Descent from Xanadu (Hardcover)

Judd Crane is the world's richest man. He's got everything money can buy so he only has one dream left to achieve: immortality. He employs a Yugoslavian doctor to help him. That's the main plot of "Descent from Xanadu", and it's not enough to fill a 400 page novel. Hence, most of the novel consists of various subplots, none of which are the least interesting. It's endless descriptions of plane flights and business meetings, and of course, sex. All of the sex scenes are very short, but always very imaginative ("Her buttocks began to roll in orgiastic frenzy. "Master! Master!" she screamed. "Make me a baby! Please, make me a baby!").

I really don't mind trash, but it has to be entertaining. "Descent from Xanadu" is just boring. It has no redeeming values at all and isn't likely to appeal to anyone, not even fans of trashy books.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars descent to mediocrity, December 1, 1999

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Chinmay Hota (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Descent from Xanadu (Mass Market Paperback)

From a great writer this book is a dampsquib. He has lost direction midway trying desperately to package in a lot of disperate subjects. Judd is a flat character who is running after a fantastic idea of living for ever. His search opens up all funny situations like Ex communist bloc plots and some Oriental mysticism mixed in. The result is a incongruous mixture which leaves a poor after-taste.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I'm sorry I ever read it, August 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Descent from Xanadu (Mass Market Paperback)

Its the suckiest book I have ever read and I truly regret reading it. I read it a couple of years ago but whenever I think about it, I get a bad feeling. I guess Harold Robbins does have a way making people remember his work ;)