The Adventures of the Librarian: The Return of the Spear of Destiny

By Christopher Tracy

Hidden beneath the monolithic Metropolitan Public Library is a repository for mankind's greatest secrets. From the Golden Fleece to Pandora's Box every enigma and artifact from every known and unknown... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416504869
• ISBN13: 9781416504863
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: iBooks
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.1" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A *fun* adventure

The idea is an intriguing one. Down through the ages, mystical artifacts have been watched over by The Librarian. Forced to find a job- his very first- Flynn Carson, the perpetual student, and geek extrordinaire, is the unlikely choice for the newest Librarian. On his first day at work, Flynn finds that one of the artifacts, one segment of the legendary Spear of Destiny, has been stolen. His mission is to retrieve the other two parts before they can be reunited by the evil serpent brotherhood, and used for, of course, world domination. This book, and the television movie it was based on, did not try to deliver the most amazing adventure story ever told. No, what it promised to deliver was simply a good time. And it did. The story has humor, such as Flynn's comment, "The fate of the world is in my hands... that's just so sad." Through the course of the book, Flynn travels to remote locations, survives against perilous opposition, and uses trivia to solve many of his problems in a deductive way that Sherlock Holmes would be proud of. In short, this is a fun story, not meant to be the ultimate adventure or a serious 'get the bad guys' tale, but just to take the reader, for a moment, on a fun ride. The Librarian shows that even the unlikeliest person can be a hero, and that the world needs to be felt and experienced, not just understood.

The movie was better

I thought that the story was wonderful, but I probably wouldn't have liked it as much had I not seen the film first. The writing is a little too simplistic and banal, but it was good overall.