The Wiz Biz [Mass Market Paperback]

Rick Cook (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Baen Books (October 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671932845
• ISBN-13: 978-0671932848
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,482,332 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars lousy editing of a wonderfull story, June 25, 2001

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Shimon - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Wiz Biz (Mass Market Paperback)

I love these books. During a recent move, I lost my copy of Wizard's Bane, the first book in this wonderfull series. I was very sad when I found out it was out of print. Then I saw this book on Amazon. The first 2 books in the series, reprinted together! I bought it, read it, and almost burned it. The editing is so horible, it almost ruins the story. Paragraphs run together, or are split for no apparent reason. Quotation marks and other punctuation are missing, extra, or in the wrong place. In some places text is repeted. The editor who let this piece of unmitigated junk go to print aught to be exiled to Siberia. This story is a must read, but only buy this book if there is no way you can get your hands on a copy of the original printing.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great story, lousy edition, July 29, 2001

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This review is from: The Wiz Biz (Mass Market Paperback)

I enjoyed the original books. The story is lots of fun to read. But the copy-editing and typesetting in this edition are truly despicable. Words are mis-spelled, parahgraphs are run together, and numerous other mistakes.

Why couldn't they just have published this edition from the same master layouts as the original two books? It looks like the typesetter for this edition copy-and-pasted the two books togehter in his word processor; and then allowed his cat to walk on the keyboard before generating the master files for printing.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Computer Programmers Unite!, December 18, 1999

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M. Clark (Washington state, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wiz Biz (Mass Market Paperback)

The Wiz Zumwalt books by Rick Cook are very entertaining. I judge books by how often I go back to re-read them, and each book in this series has been read by me at least four times each. In the case of 'The Wizardry Compiled' and 'The Wizardry Cursed' a few more times each. Some authors produce series where readers continue to buy mainly out of loyalty to characters and the author's world (like Thomas Covenant: the Unbeliever, which by the time I gave up (after the second book of the first trilogy) I was moaning 'Oh Good Grief, when will it END? '), Rick Cook's Wiz stories are endlessly entertaining.

But then, as a computer programmer myself, I relate really well to computer languages as a form of magic!

He says he won't be writing any more Wiz books for the near future, but he better change his tune, because I have cooked up a really wicked geas, and it will make him start cranking them out unless he relents and does it: ONE MORE TIME!

Well, Rick Cook, whataya