The Wicker Man

A novel of religious sexuality and pagan murder

by ,

Hardcover

English language

Published Dec. 21, 2000 by Pan Books.

ISBN:
9780330390187

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4 stars (1 review)

This book describes and expands upon the content of a film of the same name, with special reference to the religious conflict between two characters: Sergeant Howie and Lord Summerisle. The Christian viewpoint is treated more favourably than it was in the film. Howie's experiences and background are also enlarged upon and the subject of a sort of cross between the grove of Nemi and the grove dedicated to Odin at Uppsala has been added to the pagan plot.

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4 stars

I’m a bit too squeamish for some of the things, but I liked that the pagans won over the christians for once. (This was incidentally the point with which this movie was recommended to me.)

The sudden turn before the end surely caught me by surprise.

Some of the filming… was probably done cheaply.

The English of these Scotsmen was very comprehensible even to foreigners (though I still used subtitles, I could have done without for the most part).