Search - Eaters of the Dead (also published as The 13th Warrior)

After skimming through the other reviews...I am surprised that so few mention the key thing about this book---Crichton wrote in on a dare....it is an imaginative retelling of the events behind BEOWULF, using an real historical figure (Ibn Fadlan) as a foil for the story. Read with that in mind, this is a great book! If you aren't a fan of historical fiction or literary reworks, skip this.

Not one of Crichton's better books, imo. I picked it up to read on a plane, and read most of it there, but I didn't care enough to pick it up and finish it later.

Much better than it sounds. A very, very different work for Crichton. It is NOT a horror book, it's historical/action/adventure. The ending is a tad of a let-down because of the nature of the work (read it and you'll see what I mean), but it was really interesting.

Fascinating book--much better than the movie!

I found it fascinating, though one must wonder how much is true and how much is 1001 nights or other odd mythology.

I'm a Crichton fan, so I snapped up what looked like a new novel. (The old "Slap a new cover on it- the dummies will eat it up." trick.) This one is an antique- 1976 copyrights. You might like this improbable effort just to see how far Crichton has improved as a storyteller. I gave up on it.