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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Well, if you just want to leave some fresh sci-fi that doesnt leave you indifferent this is your book. An incredible approack to reincarnation. Absolutely gripping and after you start reading it you just want to read the next one in the series. Great!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent book by one of the best Science fiction writers, whose absence is much regretted. What a New World he describes!
The book arrived when expected, well packaged. Thank you.
The book arrived when expected, well packaged. Thank you.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
The Pinnacle of Fantasy/Sci-Fi
28 Jun 2010
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Riverworld, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, The Fabulous Riverboat, and all the other Riverworld stories are as good as it gets within the genre of fantasy. Imagine a world that is one long riverbank, along which live the entire population of Earth. All their needs are met leaving them with time on their hands to engage in any and all manner of pursuits, both good and evil. You are there among the crowd as are all your family, neighbors, and friends. Among those who play rolls in these books are Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, Herman Goering, King John Lackland, Motzart, Tom Mix, and many others. The possibilites for intrigue are endless. Reading this series you will be drawn in to their world to experience life anew. Don't miss out on an opportunity to live on Riverworld if only for the amount of time it takes to read all the books; you won't regret it. I have read the eitire series several times and never get tired of the story. I suspect that once you have read it once, you too will go back and re-read the story also. Were it possible to give Riverworld 10 stars, I'd do so without hesitation.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
What is your idea of heaven?
6 Oct 2010
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Heaven, life after death, even Hell, are things that can drive us to endless distraction. Not surprisingly, they are also hot topics for science fiction writers. "Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat" is Philip Jose Farmer's classic, literary, and often brilliant attempt to deal with this question. In Farmer's vision humanity is resurrected on a world with a river that starts at the north pole, winds a long, circuitous route around the planet, and dumps back into the north pole. At the pole is also an island with a grand building that becomes the goal of the book's protagonists. They devise a variety of schemes to arrive there, all without the aid of modern industry or even any kind of economy. Farmer's vision of humanity is somewhat dark. The one theme that bothers me is the unrepentant evil that Farmer portrays as the defining feature of humanity and their newfound world. While it is not a "hell", per se, Farmer's vision of the afterlife is far more dystopian than utopian, unnecessarily so in many cases. Despite this, River World is a fascinating look at one possible afterlife and the consequences it creates.
13 of 17 people found the following review helpful
need the rest of the series now
29 April 2010
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This was the first time I read anything by Farmer and I loved it! Lots of twists and turns. Since Riverworld was one of the very few books my husband read and liked I thought I would try it. I was not disappointed. Only now need the other three books in the series to become available on the Kindle.
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