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Original Title:	Carter Beats the Devil
ISBN:	0786886323 (ISBN13: 9780786886326)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Charles Carter, President Warren G. Harding
Literary Awards:	Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2001)

Carter Beats the Devil

Glen David Gold

Paperback | Pages: 483 pages

Rating: 4.09 | 12451 Users | 1008 Reviews

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Title	:	Carter Beats the Devil
Author	:	Glen David Gold
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 483 pages
Published	:	September 18th 2002 by Hyperion (first published September 5th 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Fantasy. Magic. Literature

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Charles Carter—a.k.a. Carter the Great—is a young master performer whose skill as an illusionist exceeds even that of the great Houdini. But nothing in his career has prepared Carter for the greatest stunt of all, which stars none other than President Warren G. Harding and which could end up costing Carter the reputation he has worked so hard to create. Filled with historical references that evoke the excesses and exuberance of Roaring Twenties, pre-Depression America, Carter Beats the Devil is a complex and illuminating story of one man's journey through a magical—and sometimes dangerous—world, where illusion is everything.

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A friend gave it to me years ago. I figured eventually I had to read it, like you do. On page 67 I threw it at the wall. It's about magic, which is not very interesting to read about. Or to see for that matter. Magic is very annoying - it's not real you know, it's just a lot of tricks. I like it when they chop a person up and have parts of them in boxes spread around the stage - head there, feet way over there - but that's about it. Likewise with Harry Potter, every one of which I've seen on the

Carter Beats the Devil was set up superbly. I loved the way in which Glen David Gold really brought the early years of Carter alive and how these early childhood experiences influenced the magician he was to become. There was a pretty hefty amount of research undertaken in this project, and Gold really captures the atmosphere of the 1920's, with magicians vying to outdo each-other at every step. Unfortunately, for me, what followed this impressive start, quickly descended into a confusing tangle

What an awesome, perfect book! I can't believe it was the writer's first, either, it's 560 pages and never gets boring. I don't know how accurate it is, but according the blurbs, very. This books will totally take you back to about 100 years ago, before television takes over the entertainment world, and gives the reader a good feeling for what America was like back then, especially California. There are lots of historical figures that pop up, alternate history, Malacca Straights pirates, the

A Conversation I had earlier,Friend: "So what are you reading."Me: "Carter Beats The Devil, it's about a master magician battling a shadowy conglomerate of the government, corporations, and secret societies to find the truth about president Harding's death with the help of his pet lion."Friend: "... There's no part of that sentence that doesn't appeal to me."There is a word for this book and it is awesome. A big thank you to Natalie for bringing this to my attention.

Magic, thriller, period - three specific strands and together they make for a great book. Set in the fictional world of 1920s magic, this references real people, such as Houdini, but the set-up is pure imagination.Funny, entertaining, nail-biting and genuinely heart-warming, this is one of those books that not that many people have read, but should be recommended to everyone! I love it!As a footnote, the author is Alice "Lovely Bones" Sebold's husband

Golds book is loosely based on the life of Charles Carter, a real magician. After reading his Wikipedia page, I appreciate that Gold was more than willing to stretch the historical facts for the amusement of the reader.The book starts off with the death (murder?) of one of the greatest presidents ever, Warren G. Harding, who could give any president a run for their money in the floozie and corruption departments. Carter is somehow implicated.Boyhood trauma propels Carter into magic and onto the

A disappointing read, Carter Beats the Devil is both overlong and underwritten. The historical detail just about succeeds in evoking the pre-WWI and interwar years in which the majority of book is set, but the characters, especially Carter himself, are strangely one-dimensional, and the plot is ludicrous, and, ironically, boring. You want books like this to be rip-roaring page-turners, but honestly, for all the supposed "magic" in the book it really wasn't very magical or exciting. I feel like