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| Books of Magic, The: Reckonings - Book 3 (Books of Magic , Vol 3) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dc Comics, John Ney Rieber
Creators: Neil Gaiman, John Bolton, Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh, Peter Snejbjerg, Peter Gross, John Ridgway, Richard Starkings
Publisher: Vertigo/DC Comics
Category: Book
Buy Used: $40.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 307888
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 190
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 6.6 x 0.4
ISBN: 1563893215
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781563893216
ASIN: 1563893215
Publication Date: March 1, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Looks new and unread. 1000's sold. Personal customer service by phone or E-mail.
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Product Description
The saga of Timothy Hunter, master Mage-in-training, continues in this fourth collection of sorcery, spells and sprites. The demon Barbatosis up to his old tricks, doing his best to frustrate Tim's noble intentions. This time it seems he might succeed.
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 Finding the way in hell May 21, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Books of Magic series follow the life of Tim Hunter, who is destined to be the world's most powerful magician, but for now is just a teenager. He has recently discovered that all the imaginary children that he had as a child are real and live in an empty lot. He takes his girlfriend, Molly, to visit. She goes into the woods to heed the call of nature and is kidnapped and taken to hell by a group of pink dinosaurs. Hell is not a place of fire and brimstone. Rather it is run like a large and very burocratic corporation. Fire and brimstone is just one torture provided.
Meanwhile Tim Hunter from the future, a powerful magician who has traded his memories away in various confrontations with demons, has realized that life is not all that. He is now trying to raise young Tim Hunter not to be like him.
A mysterious character named Nobody figures heavily in Tim and Molly's plights. Each must read a short fairy tale in a book. The fairy tales involve a main character who looks and talks just like the main character. The stories end tragically for the main character. In a final confrontation Tim, Molly and grown up Tim end up inside the story read by the demon who has kidnapped Molly and been controlling grown up Tim. Each must play by the rules enough to trick the story without loosing touch with reality and being pulled into the book.
The art style is realistic and well done. The layouts are a little off. Often I read panels out of sequence and the pacing on each page was just a tad off. The art here is fine but the highlight of the book is the twisting and detailed plot.
I recommend that you read the previous book in the series (Summonings) first, but I seriously do recommend that book. Two reasons for that: You will have background so that this book makes more sense. The two books go together and the major plots that were opened in Summonings are resolved here, so reading them together is so much better.
fun and funtastic February 23, 2000
2 out of 26 found this review helpful
yow,man,this was like,ya know,the COOOOOL stuff,ya know,cooool,ya know
 It's no Gaiman, but good stuff. July 29, 1999
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
What the title says. It cant hope to match what Gaiman did in the original mini....but it's good stuff. Interesting relations...although the future/past relation is somewhat lacking overall. It seems incomplete when read alone. Makes you wish you had other chapters. But overall good stuff.
Interesting, but not great. December 17, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
John Ney Rieber, The Books of Magic: Reckonings (Vertigo, 1997)
Reckonings, the third book in the Sandman spinoff Books of Magic series, is a marked improvement over book two, though it's still not up to the standard set by the Sandman series.
In this one, Tim and Molly, along with a few extraplanar friends, are off gallavanting when Molly gets kidnapped by a bunch of pink dinosaurs. (I kid you not.) In order to rescue her, Tim has to brave the fires of Hell-- except that Hell has no fires. Hell is a vast bureaucracy just waiting to implode upon itself.
It's amusing enough for what it is, but the narrative lacks the Gaiman touch, substituting labyrinthine plot twists for Gaiman's dark characterization and master's touch with detail. Still, it's enjoyable enough to keep me going in the series. ***
fun and funtastic February 23, 2000
0 out of 13 found this review helpful
yow,man,this was like,ya know,the COOOOOL stuff,ya know,cooool,ya know
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