On My Way to Paradise [Import] [Paperback]

DAVID WOLVERTON (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 529 pages
• Publisher: BANTAM PRESS (1991)
• ISBN-10: 055340203X
• ISBN-13: 978-0553402032
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There Should be A Ten Star Rating For This Book., September 13, 2003

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J. Myers "Musashi Murano" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On My Way to Paradise (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is everything the "positive reviews" above say, and more. From the first page until the last paragraph to the last three words of that last page, this book will awe, inspire, stay with you. It's been sadly overlooked in best of lists and fan appreciation. Your time reading it will be very well spent.

If you read only one Sci Fi book in the next year make it this one. And keep your copy, it gets better with successive readings. Well worth reading more than once. It's simply that damn good.

I wish Dave Wolverton would do this kind of book again, and do it well. Someone tell him he should.

Jack

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tour de force, March 13, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: On My Way to Paradise (Mass Market Paperback)

I read this novel after reading review by Orson Scott Card praising it highly. It is my favorite sci-fi novel of all time.
It is powerfully psychological,clearly influenced by Phillip K Dick, but it is also marvelous for its "hard" technical content, as well as very intellectual in the way the hero examines the moral questions of his world. Plot is also handled very well, with lots of violent action, and images which are simply unforgettable. How can this be a first novel? It is moving on every level and I consider it a masterpiece.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars unforgettable, November 22, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: On My Way to Paradise (Mass Market Paperback)

I read this book ages ago. I lent it to a friend. She never gave it back.
The hero, Angelo Osic, is not young, nor is he a stereotype of the action-adventure genre, and yet Wolverton makes Osic's odyssey believable.
The warmth of this existential, humane character, his gradual transformation into a warrior, and his involuntary exile across the galaxy haunts me to this day.
It saddens me to read that this novel is out of print. I thought this was adventure-SF's last gasp before the cyber and alternate universe genre took over.
_On My Way_ is what the Star Wars prequels wish they could have been...
I must find another copy at a used bookstore and read it again. I'll probably like it so much, I'll end up giving it to another friend. This Dave Wolverton classic is too good not to be shared.