Navigator [Paperback]

Eoin Mcnamee (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: NY (1980)
• ASIN: B000N6P0CE
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love Irish Storytellers!, May 9, 2007

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Camille "at the BookMoot!" (Texas) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: The Navigator (Hardcover)

This is a book I HAD to finish reading before I could go to bed last night.

Owen is different. He doesn't fit in at school and his mother is suffering from a mysterious mental disorder. Owen's father commited suicide and he hears people in town say, "Like father, like son," "He'll go the same way." Owen does suffer a crippling phobia of water. The sight of the harbor or a river makes him tremble.

He finds refuge in his "den," a small clearing in the woods where he has built a fort with odds and ends of furniture and items he scavenged from the town junk yard. He is in his den one afternoon when the light in the sky changes and in a flash, Owen's world disappears.

He encounters a person calling himself Sub-Commandant who is part of the Resisters and who has called the Sleepers to wake up because The Harsh have caused Time to start moving backward and are getting ready to attack. Wha-huh?

Well, think how Owen feels!

This was a terrific adventure story. There is a missing artifact, an epic journey and the hope that "The Navigator" will appear to restore the flow of Time and get the world back on track. Three young ones and a world to save--great stuff.

The fantastical apparatus of this world such as the power source "Magno," the brass observation tower "Skyward," the "Q-Car," and goggled bad guys operating dragonfly-styled flying machines put me in mind of Flash Gordon serials. Illustrator, Jon Goodell has done a lovely service illustrating some of these technological wonders.

There was still an unresolved mystery in my mind about a minor character in the beginning of the book. I think this means more stories are coming.

I love Irish storytellers.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I navigated my way through this book in one day!, January 31, 2007

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Navigator (The Navigator Trilogy) (Audio CD)

The Navigator is a very good book. I really enjoyed listening to it; I listened to it in one day. The descriptions are very good and I feel like I'm living it.

The Navigator is about a boy named Owen who meets these people called the resistors who are resisting against the Harsh who are trying to take the world back to before their where people at all.

Overall it was a very good book and I can't wait for the next one in the series!

5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down, August 24, 2011

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Mary (Vancouver) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Navigator (Navigator Trilogy) (Paperback)

I am writing this review for my 8 yr old ds. He loved the book and couldn't put it down. He found that the adventure was great. Other reviewers have given more details about the book its self. I just wanted to voice ds's opinion that he thought that it was a good book.