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Loading... The Dark Design (Riverworld Saga, Book 3) (original 1977; edition 1998)by Philip Jose Farmer
Work InformationThe Dark Design by Philip José Farmer (1977)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 3rd boko in the series. I found the first book OK & 2nd book "meh" at best. 6th Pearl Ruled (p66) Rating: 2* of five, all for the Riverworld setting which is tremendously creative and involving By the end of chapter 12, I was slogging through the prose hating each and every page folio and running head. My eye would catch the author's name on the verso and I'd begin to churn my guts into roiling masses of acid fury; the title on the recto made my rectum clench; and then, as page 66 gave me another bash in the balls with Farmer's name, the next chapter was 13 and, well, I lost the will to live on in Riverworld. It didn't help that this was the last page's last few lines: "I see that we are getting close to our homes. I bid you adieu then until tonight. I will set out two torches, which you may see from your window, to announce when our little gathering begins." So. Much. NO. I hate the "but she *meant* yes" defense, and this sounds to me like the classic set-up for date rape. "I know you better than you know yourself" is infuriating when your long-term partner says it (probably because there's some truth in that case); when some joker off the street does, it's enraging. It was 1977 when this marvy came out. It isn't in me to revisit that head-space in this way with that dreadful, stodgy prose as my cicerone. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesRiverworld (3) Belongs to Publisher SeriesGrandes Éxitos de Bolsillo (B-60) Science Fiction Book Club (2679) Distinctions
Much has transpired since Earth's denizens found themselves resurrected along the shores of a river 22 million miles long. With the truth of this strange river's creators, the Ethicals, still shrouded in mystery, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Samuel Clemens, King John, and Cyrano de Bergerac face a fantastical voyage of discovery. No library descriptions found. |
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