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Warlock Rock

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I own every book in the Warlock series except this one. I have read and enjoyed it however. I felt that this book dealt more with a fun aspect of modern culture invading a medieval one instead of an evil aspect. I sincerely hope they reprint this one as well as some of the other earlier books in the series. This author is always one of my recommended reads. Even if you don't agree with all of his views, he always makes you think, even about the affects of rock and roll.

The Warlock rock is the first book I have read in this series, but I like what I've seen. The characters are convincing, and the plot is very inventive. I reccomend this book to both fantasy and science fiction lovers.

The book Warlock Rock came out about the same time the rock band Judas Priest was on trial for allegedly causing a teen to commit suicide.

It seems to me that Stasheff took many elements of hysteria and paranoia that the news media played up and attempted to create a storyline around them. The book tries to tie in these references to the overall world-theme Stasheff spent years creating in the Warlock series and fails utterly. One wonders if the publisher wanted to capitalize on the trial for free publicity.

I have all the other books in the series and enjoy them. The overall theme of Warlock Rock was actually offensive to me, as if Stasheff were preaching that listening to a certain type of music was wrong. This story doesn't seem to fit in, and does not need to be included in your collection. You can skip this one; it's not worth having.

Imagine the preachiness of late Stasheff combined with Piers Anthony's unbearable desire to make a pun out of everything. Add rock music. Stir, taste, and spit out.

This is an unbearable book, in which the Gallowglasses take off across the country hunting rocks that make music (look, the puns are REALLY CREATIVE, too). The storyline, such as it is, is entirely self-contained (if you like other Warlock books, you can skip this one and miss nothing), and is almost completely swamped by music puns and pushing the moral lesson of "Some very little rock music is okay, but most of it is evil and attempting to make you a mindless, evil, oversexed zombie. Also, the more modern it is, the worse it is."

My least favorite warlock book. Things mentioned in rock music come to life in witch moss. It reminded me of Xanth.

Takes one of the dumber planks of the religious right and tries to make a story around it. Some Christians think rock and roll music leads to evil. Apparently Mr. Stasheff is one of these.