Born to Run (Mass Market Paperback)

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Product Description

Seeking to make their fortunes in human society, the elves of the underworld involve themselves in stock car racing, child pornography, and worse, and three runaway kids find themselves in a heap of trouble. Reissue.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Baen (February 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671721100
• ISBN-13: 978-0671721107
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #837,581 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the perfect hero!, May 31, 2000

By	"lorana" (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

The best part of this book is the hero/main character, Tannim; a human mage who has a big heart with a soft spot for kids in tough places. He shares this sentiment with the good elves who race cars to get money becaues you just can't hand over a handful of silver coins to a needy mother these days without something going wrong!(what ever happened to those good old days?) I loved to follow this infectiously lovable and completely human character on his jaunts through the real world and the not so real. His faults are completely believable and make you like the guy all the more (if that is even possible) and makes you hold you breath as he gets into scrapes and hard spots galore! If you don't fall in love with Tannim and wish to hear more and more and more about him, you really need to see a doctor because you head isn't working too well! (No offense!) A great read and worth every penny!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I liked it so much, I gave it away., January 10, 1999

By A Customer

I am part of a scifi/fantasy reading group that gets together once a month to discuss a book that we read the month before, and when this title was selected, I was not very enthusiastic. Very simply, the title, cover art and back cover blurb ("Fast Elves, hot cars and rock'n roll!" or something to that effect)just didnt seem like my particular cup of tea. So, imagine my suprise when I found it to be quite enjoyable. Great characters, brilliant concept (once I got used to the idea) and very well written. I finished it on a plane from Chicago to Los Angeles and the guy sitting next to me was in the Navy, and through our smalltalk discovered that he liked fantasy fiction. When I showed him this book, he stated that he didnt think he would like it, for pretty much the same reasons I assumed I wouldn't. I suggested he give it a try and gave him my copy. I guess I will never know whether he enjoyed it as much as I did, but its kind of interesting to think that my copy of this book is now in the library of a USNavy ship off the coast of Japan.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but could have been better., April 8, 2003

By	Emma "mollymatheson" (Sebastopol, CA United States) - See all my reviews

So far, this is my least favorite of the SERRAted Edge novels. The things that really carried the book were Sam, Tannim, and Keighvin: old cranky Irishman, modern mage, elf. Cranky Irishman, modern mages, and elves just about ALWAYS make a book good--and the ywork for this one. Definitely worth the read, if just to stare at elves, even if it's just in the imagination.