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Uther (The Camulod Chronicles) (Mass Market Paperback)

by Jack Whyte (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 928 pages
  • Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.; New edition edition (27 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0812571029
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812571028
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 4.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 170,886 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Fans of Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, an authentic retelling of the Arthurian legend as it actually may have happened, have enjoyed watching the story of Camelot evolve through the eyes of Merlyn - witnessing firsthand Merlyn's role in shaping the boy who would be king. But there has been a part of the story that readers have been denied. With UTHER, Jack Whyte provides a portrait of Merlyn's shadow - his boyhood companion and closest friend, the man who would sire the King of the Britons. From the trials of boyhood to the new cloak of adult responsibility, we see Uther with fresh eyes. He will travel the length of the land, have adventures and through fate or tragedy, fall in love with the one woman he must not have. UTHER is a compelling love story and, like the other books in the Camulod Chronicles, a version of the legend that is more realistic than anything readers have seen before.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Seventh Book in this Innovative Series, 12 April 2008
By J. Chippindale (England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Uther (The Camulod Chronicles) (Hardcover)

Jack Whyte was born and raised in Scotland, but has lived in Canada for the last forty odd years. He is the author of the Camulod series of books and has just had published the first in a trilogy about probably the most famous Order of knights, ever to come through the pages of history, the Knights Templar.

This is the seventh volume in the continuation of the Camulod Chronicles a series of novels about the Arthurian legends. But anyone expecting the conventional, or Hollywood slant on the legend of Arthur, i.e. knights riding around on destriers in full body armour, something invented several hundred years after Arthur had gone to his grave, if he ever existed at all, will be in for a sharp shock.

The books are set in the 5th century AD a much more likely time for Arthur to have existed, a time when Britain, although free of the Romans, who had gone back across the channel to Rome, was still very much influenced by their occupation.

Granted Jack Whyte's version of the Arthurian legends does not sit well with everybody, but if you forget what you have read before about Arthur and after all that is only information published earlier by Sir Thomas Mallory and has very little credibility in historical terms, and treat the books on their own merits then many will find them not only readable, but also enjoyable.

This book is about Uther the boyhood companion of Merlyn and the man who will eventually father, Arthur, a boy who grows to become the High king of Britain. Uther and Merlyn have been together since childhood. Caius Merlyn Britannicus, a man who has grown to be leader of the colony and Uther, a tireless warrior. So different in many ways but bound together with ties as strong as iron.
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3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars The legend of Camelot continues, 7 Jul 2002
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This is just another version of how Arthur came about. The story itself, is interesting and appealing but it tends to divert into areas that it needn't touch. I was interested in the fact the Uther and Merlyn were cousins and came from a great dynastic family but some of that family were less than convincing. Each section of the book starts with correspondence between Uthers mother Veronica and her mother but this is practically the only contact with these characters in the story. It seems that the author wastes time banging on about the pasts of all the people the reader meets even the unecessary ones. It is good to get an insight into the lives of the characters but when it gets too long winded, it's wasting time with the story. The author has also got an irritating habit of putting in spoilers at the beginning of certain chapters, such as telling us that Uther will only have four nights with Ygraine etc.
Overall I enjoyed reading it and could not put it down until it was finished. Maybe I should have read the authors previous novels to get a better perspective but it was great to read another point of view of that period in history.
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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the rest, 24 Jun 2005
Having read all of the previous Camulod Chronicles I was looking forward to reading this 'stand alone' book about Uther. As the previous books are all written in the first person you only ever get the perspective of the narrator and I had been vaguely disappointed that we never really got to know Uther. Unfortunately I still feel like I did not get to know him. This book is no where near as good as the rest and there are several discrepancies in characters and timelines. The book alternates between trying to give too much detail about events that have happened in previous books to not enough detail. The details of the incident with Cassandra are barely mentioned in this book and yet they are incredibly important to the whole Uther/Merlyn story.
All in all this has been an entertaining enough read but seemed a bit hurried and superficial.
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