Rage (The Courtney Series: The Burning Shore Sequence Book 3) by Wilbur Smith

Rage (The Courtney Series: The Burning Shore Sequence Book 3) Reviews

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  denize cerqueira

  This book is another one of Wilbur Smith`s masterpieces that covers history, thriller, adventure, romance. Simply one of the best books I've ever read in my life.
  I live in Africa and even though the plot is placed within the 50/60, some parts of the book are so real and still alive on our day to day lives.
  It helped me to understand the history, motives and reasons of so many things that are still happening in Africa today.
  Helped me to understand a bit about the past so that I can understand a bit about the present.
  This book is excellent. Well written. The characters are so alive that I can see some of them in people I
  know. My very own South African husband for example. In my friends and even the ones that work for me.
  I fully recommend.
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  Las Vegas

  This book wraps up the series. The author has done what few can, entertain while giving a pretty accurate historical story. He doesn’t do the level of detail that Michener did but is every bit as entertaining. I tried to read the series in order but wasn’t totally successful, largely due to the series name intertwining. No less entertaining anyway and I’m sure to read the rest of his books.
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  VioletV

  This is the 5th time I read this booka staple over the years. I haven't read this in over 5 years and forgot just what a fantastic book this is. Lots of history and details. Highly recommend.
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  Larry Stanton

  From the Burning Shore , to Power of the Sword, and then Rage, the fascinating 3 generation history of So.Africa's sometime violent, sometime beautiful history is laid out in a magical way, making the reader want to literally burn through the pages. On second reading, but much slowly this time, the history, altho fictionalized, is a heart pounding non stop 3 book read. Anybody who has read Wilbur Smith knows his intriguing writing style is second to none in this massive historical fiction, going back another 3 centuries, all woven around the ficitious Courtney family.
  
  For those who have never had the delight of reading Wilbur Smith, or know very little about So. Africa and are interested in African game animals, politics, war, family intrigueyou are in for a thrill when you finally sit down and start with the Burning Shore and then finish Rage. This is writing anyone can enjoy.
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  Dedubv

  Mr Smith you have set aside your praise of Africa beauty and in its place we see the beauty of its women and girls black and white. And right off the big game hunt of the father and 3 sons and the youngest with bad eyes and specticals saves them all by killing a charging lion. Then the sex education of all the kids with the oldest learning from his art teacher and meanwhile the parents are learning from others including a black man who gives mommy another kid. While this going on the story of apartheid and its blood and gore kept me riveted throughout.Needless to say this is another masterpiece
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  jsf

  As usual I enjoyed this novel. Wilbur always succeeds in holding my interest to the very end.
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  N. Harrison

  Interesting history of modern South Africa. The tale wove an intreging path between people to tell the history and describe the country.
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  J. Jacks

  Was sending to an inmate. The prison sent it back due to stains and condition.
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  Continuing on from The Power of The Sword, Rage follows the Courtney family into the next generation of grandchildren and is set in the turbulent years of South Africas' freedom struggle, apartheid and sanctions. A very violent time when whites held the country in their grip whilst the masses (mostly blacks) held no vote at all.
  
  I was there in the late 60's and saw first hand what the effects of the apartheid regime had on the country. I was amazed that you could have a black person (woman/man) wash your car, drive your car as a driver, maintain your garden, cook and clean for you, look after your children, wash and iron your clothes but you couldn't live next door to them!!
  
  On the other hand I also watched the brutality of the black people as the murdered many of their own by necklaceing or tire burning their victims with petrol, anyone who opposed their ideals.
  
  In this conclusion all of the Courtney secrets come to the fore and at last we learn what Centaine has held hidden for all these years and the repercussions that these revelations have on the whole family.
  
  Outstanding reading at a hefty 897 pages but well worth the effort. Thank you Wilbur for this fabulous book which gave me many hours of reading pleasure.
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  goodreads Customer

  I could not put this book down and read it in two days. As I lived in S Africa and am familiar with a lot of the history around which the story enfolds, the narrative fascinated me even .
  What a wonderful book, the way the author is able to link all the characters English and Afrikaner from humble beginnings to positions of power, and to describe the terrible plight and courage of the black S Africans is amazing.
  I don’t think I will ever be able to forget this book.
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  Geoff Gosling

  I really enjoyed reading this great adventure. The characters are vivid, as is the description of this beautiful part of a great continent. The history of the "haves & have nots", the extremely wealthy and the very poor. The immense struggle of the black people fighting apartheid. The political decisions that lead to tragic events.
  This book, part of The Courtney Series, has inspired me to read the whole series, starting at the beginning.
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  Broga

  This is the first Wilbur Smith book I have read. It will not be the last. Set in the apartheid era in South Africa Smith enters, with what seems sympathetic and penetrating clarity, into the mindsets of both the Blacks and the Afrikaners. The context is of South Africa at the time and the violence, politics, intrigues, romance and sex are drawn vividly and with thrilling pace. What I so much liked was the subtlety with which the characters are drawn. There are no 100 per cent heroes or villains. They are all a mixture with virtues and flaws. I ended the book with a sympathetic understanding for the Afrikaners that I had never had before.
  
  This is a driving, tumultuous read with characters I cared about. The best do terrible things. The worst do good things. And most, like the rest of us are the mixture that makes us human. Brilliant. I was enthralled from the start.
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  C Wales

  This is one of his better books. I read it myself some time ago, and bought this for my Mum who is trying to understand the background of all the troubles in South Africa in years gone by. I think this book explains things quite well, in an easy to understand story woven around the history around that time.