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8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Wilson continues to amaze me! Apr 02, 2009
By Bebon
F. Paul Wilson continues to amaze me! This is a GREAT story taken from the impossible to find anthology "Freak Show" which Wilson edited. It's another interesting tale involving the "Otherness", which fans of Wilson's "Repairman Jack" series will know about. It revolves around some circus characters and freak show oddities and is quite an entertaining read. Hats off to Wilson for publishing this HIMSELF so that more people could get a chance to read it.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Another piece of the puzzle Dec 05, 2009
By Roby E. Gamboa
My wife and I have become totally absorbed in F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack series. The character is great, and the world that Wilson has built up around him has some really unexpected twists and turns to it. While "Traveling Circus..." is part of that world (although Jack does not put in an appearance in this novel), and helps fill in some gaps in a couple of key areas, I didn't get into it nearly as much as the other RJ novels. The writing and imagery were good, but one of the things that makes RJ likeable is his sense of humor, and this novel was quite a bit darker. Overall, I think the book's important to have as part of a complete Adeversary Cycle/RJ collection, but I didn't like it nearly as much as some of the other novels in the collection, and not just because of Jack's absence. As an example, I found "Black Wind" to be much more engaging, both from its historical perspective and back-story (it explains a lot of the characters and elements of the RJ novel "By The Sword"), but also because the characters in it were a lot more lifelike, and you could relate to them much more readily.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
TPOTCOE Jun 09, 2009
By P. Quinn
For Repairman Jack fans, this is a very good complement to All The Rage. The novel expounds on the origination of the emporium, the "freaks" and their relation to the Otherness. You never knew what Ozymandius' "freak-side" was and without giving it away, you will be agog. Wilson ends the novel in his typical whirlwind fashion, which is his forte. However, it is this reader's opinion that it was over too fast and basically no epilogue...it's just over and there you sit. TPOTCOE is still a very good short read and worth the expenditure.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Abridgment scars notwithstanding, a fun, nasty little piece of work Feb 14, 2011
By Joshua Mauthe
Peabody-Ozymandias started life as a cooperative novel called Freak Show, with Wilson providing the framework, characters, and large pieces of the story, while other authors contributed their own chapters and tales within the larger arc. For this publication, Wilson pulled out his own pieces of the text and published them by themselves as a standalone short work, and the results, while generally good, still feel like the partial work they are. The tale of a traveling freak show with their own agenda that will change the world, Peabody-Ozymandias plays with Wilson's Otherness mythology in some fun ways, and it provides a nice little side tale to the cosmology, complete with some surprisingly dark and violent scenes along the way. The problem, though, is that the book shows a lot of scars from where it was extracted, and it feels like it's filled with allusions and references to characters that are oddly absent. The main storyline isn't even excepted from this; while the relationship between one of the newer freaks and an acrobat flows along for the story, it still feels a little perfunctory and abridged. All of that being said, this is still a fun little tale, and Wilson tends to be a lot of fun when he can play without a net - that is, when he's not as concerned about keeping franchise characters alive, or when his heroes are a little on the darker side. This is definitely a secondary piece of the Adversary Cycle, but it's a fun little piece, and worth checking out if you're a Wilson fan. (A note on the Kindle edition: is there anything more annoying than forgetting to close off your Italic tag and having the rest of your story - almost 75% of the tale - end up in italics due to formatting problems?)
Fantastic addition to the Wilson Universe May 19, 2011
By D'arcy Glavine
"Just an avid reader"
As my title implies, this book is tied in to (what seems like) ever other book F. Paul Wilson has ever written. A must have for anyone who loves his Adversary Cycle books and his Repairman Jack books.
I originally read Freak Show (which was basically the same book, just broken differently, and i thoroughly enjoyed it. But with F. Paul Wilson unifying his universe and getting all his ducks in a row I re-read it as The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium. and was very happy with all the subtle changes and if anything, i enjoyed it more.
F. Paul Wilson never ceases to amaze me, and although this is a review for this book, i would be remiss if i didnt say you should just read everything he has every written, because he is phenomenal.
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