Talk:Wilbur Smith

message: I added a description of the plot of River God. The writing is pretty bad and it probably misses some major plot points but it's very hard to compress such a huge book into a decent summary. Feel free to rewrite and expand, but at any rate my bad description is better than nothing. :) 82.71.7.193 17:02, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's a great start. I just beefed it up a little. I did the audiobooks about a year ago, so my memory isn't the best - you mentioned leaving Egypt and returning to Egypt - I thought that was Lower Kingdom vs. Upper Kingdom? Or am I confusing book 1 with book 3 (if you haven't read them yet, feel free to skip book 2). — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib Reverts 18:43, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: River God

message: I wrote a very basic plot synopsis for The Quest. Great book, but very different from anything Smith's written before. If someone could patch up what I wrote, that would be great thanks.
Razoroo 12:25, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The Quest

message: I'll try to do a summary for this soon - I've read it several times, but not for a year or two, I'm too rusty to do a decent one now, but when I've finished reading Blue Horizon I'll get onto the Seventh Scroll.Helmetlad 17:22, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The Seventh Scroll

message: In my opinion many of the books here deserve a far longer explanation due to the complexity of the plots, and becuase of just how excellent the books are. I have thought of doing some sort of character summary for the different sets of books - there are characters that stand forward predominantly and remain through each of the series'. In addition there was no mention of the newest Courtney novel, Triumph of the Sun, a milestone in that it combined both the Courtney and Ballantyne lines. I'll continue to update slowly. --Liquid121 21:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's biographical material the page really needs, that's what the article is mainly about. The books can be detailed on their own pages, for example River God is large enough to have its own article already. I've assessed it as a start class article - there's plenty on the books but only a paragraph or so on the subject, so it will need a great deal of expansion. Richard001 08:49, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion

message: Could a logged-in user create a redirect Blue Horizon (novel) → Wilbur Smith (for now) and add this as another disambiguation to the Blue Horizon page? thanks 84.129.160.221 (talk) 14:09, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  disambiguation 

message: i removed the following paragraph as it sounded more like an advertisement than information. i believeit conforms to wikipedia's weasel words clause and if anybody has a problem kindly post here.
paragraph deleted The original Courtney trilogy has a power and historical content that few books can claim. Covering a period of South African history from before the Zulu Wars to the establishment of the Union of South Africa makes the books a very interesting mirror of the period. Wilbur Smith drives his characters through this period of history with a multitude of side plots, effective characters both minor and major, brutal violence and the inclusion of the most human situations that every reader can relate to.
Tca achintya (talk) 23:42, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I would have said that it falls foul not so much of "Weasel words" but of "Original Research", in that it appears to be the contributor's own (not necessarily incorrect) opinion, although as you suggest it might also derive from a non-disinterested source such as a publisher's advertisement. If a similar analysis could be sourced from a published and authoritative independent source such as a literary scholar or professional critic, it would, I think, be admissible. 87.81.230.195 (talk) 00:12, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  weasel words removal 

message: I am going to create 3 new articles: The Courtney Series (books), The Ballantyne Series (books), The Egyptian Series (books), and move corresponding parts of this article there.
If anyone has any concerns or ideas, please express them here.
Yurivict (talk) 12:31, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea! This seemed to have gone quiet, so I've taken the liberty of moving the stuff on the Ballantyne novels to their own page.Swanny18 (talk) 19:41, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Series into separate articles

message: Smith's books have been called racist and sexist by critics. This article by Richard Peck gives a good overview of the stereotypes Smith uses in his books: http://legacy.lclark.edu/~peck/pubs/Beware/JCAS-updated.pdf
So far, this article on Wikipedia lacks criticism of Smith's work. Therefore I think, some of the aspects mentioned in the article by Peck should be included to draw a complete picture of the reception of Smith's novels. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.1.41.23 (talk) 19:26, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: Under the Courtney Series the article reads: The Courtney series can be split into three parts, each part following a particular era of the Courtney family.
In chronological order it goes the Third Sequence, First Sequence, then the Second Sequence. However this is a slight generalization, so in fact the book sequence is:
This makes no sense at all; on what grounds can it be "split into three parts"? What are the "eras"? (the dates given are pretty much continuous with the exception of Blue Horizon in the 1730s). What is meant by "Third Sequence" and so on? Even if it was coherent it's unsourced WP:OR Tonywalton Talk 23:47, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification needed 

message: Does anyone know why "The Delta Decision" and "Flight of the Falcons" by wilbur Smith, do not appear on his book history.  I have both in paperback???  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.148.112.104 (talk) 17:05, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing books