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Original Title:	The Tower of Geburah (Archives of Anthropos, #3)
ISBN:	0877845603 (ISBN13: 9780877845607)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Archives of Anthropos #3

The Tower of Geburah (Archives of Anthropos #3) Paperback | Pages: 404 pages

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Title	:	The Tower of Geburah (Archives of Anthropos #3)
Author	:	John White
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 404 pages
Published	:	September 1st 1978 by InterVarsity Press (first published June 1978)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Christian. Young Adult. Childrens. Christian Fiction

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The Archives of Anthropos are essentially a poor imitation of The Chronicles of Narnia, originally written at the request of theologian John White's children for a story that was "just like Narnia."

Unfortunately, while C.S. Lewis was a mythologist first and a theologian second, White is a theologian first and a mythologist somewhere down the line, and it shows. The books are decent allegory-fantasy, drawing on classical and biblical mythology - quest-based action adventure stories with good character arcs. But the allegory is rather too obvious, some of the names are a bit corny, and the setting doesn't quite convince.

Don't misunderstand me - I enjoyed this series as a kid and read it through multiple times. But I re-read Narnia as an adult and I love it just as much - though perhaps for different reasons - as I did as when it was first read to me as a five-year-old.

Goodreads lists the Tower of Geburah as #3 but, like the Narnia books, the Archives of Anthropos are best read in real-world publication order, rather than internal world-order. In this case that's 3, 4, 1, 2, all equally decent stories. 5 is fine, but I'd not suggest bothering with 6.

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It's much better than you'd expect. Wesley, Kurt, and Lisa are sucked through old television sets in their attic to the land of Anthropos, where the king Kardia is imprisoned, and the land suffers under the sorcerer Hociono. Can they trust Gaal and free the kingdom?It's heavily influenced by Narnia, but John White adds enough creativity and imagery to make it rise above a standard book. He has a special talent with names: Kardia, Koach, Gaal, Mashal Stone, Bayith of Yayin, Sunesidis. he also has

One of my very favorites when I was growing up. Despite the obvious Christian overtones, it still holds a place of endearment in my heart.

Wonderful as always. :)Theophilus' name always makes me smile; Theophilus Gorgonzala Roquefort de Limburger V. Actually Theophilus in general makes me smile, crazy, vain, flying horse though he may be. All joking aside, the rest of the characters are great too- Wesley who worries about everything and has to learn to trust Gaal, Lisa and Kurt who did some pretty stupid things but found out that they could be forgiven anyway. And the story is wonderful as well, three kids get sucked (literally)

I read this before I was even aware of CS Lewis. Enchanting book riddled with magic, adventure and hope. Hard to believe now that it is listed as a "religious" book.

This was kids' Christian fiction. Kids are sucked into another dimension and tempted, but probably triumph through the power of Jesus, except he's been cleverly disguised by giving him a new name. Except I don't know that, because the writing was so poor that I didn't get more than halfway through. My recommendation: read the Chronicles of Narnia again instead.

I remember reading this as a teen, so I wanted to see if it was still good as an adult. While this is the third book in the series chronologically, it is the first that he actually wrote. As such it isn't as well-written as the ones he wrote later, but it is still good.The similarities to the Chronicles of Narnia are of course striking, considering that he intentionally wrote this book for his children to be "like" them, but White does have his own style and the book quickly breaks out of the

It took me awhile to get into this book, as I kept comparing it in my thinking to the Chronicles of Narnia or the Lord of the Rings trilogy. While not quite of that caliber of writing, and being told by one to whom the three children in the book had told their story, it still was a well written adventure and spiritual tale that took children from the wintry white outs of Winnipeg, Canada to the kingdom of Anthropos to do battles with evil forces and to restore the rightful king to his throne.