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Summary: Extreme What-If
Review: This book really surprised me. When my wife suggested it to me I wasn't that excited about it, but I trust her literary opinions so I dug in.Farmer's Riverworld is a world populated by all of the people who have ever existed on Earth. The main character wakes up and finds himself amongst people from other times and places, which makes for the reader's fascinating discovery that a story doesn't really need aliens or elves to have fantastic inhabitants. Although the book seems to lose focus as you get closer to the end, Farmer does a good job of establishing the rules that the inhabitants of Riverworld must live by and then exploring how people react to these rules, and live within their limits. I'd recommend this book to fans of older science-fiction (I love Ray Bradbury); genre-lovers probably will not enjoy it.
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Summary: One of the all time sci-fi greats!
Review: In your review you state "Sir Francis Bacon would be the first to glimpse the incredible way-station", later you correct this mistake saying it was Sir Richard Burton. Burton is the correct character and makes a considerable difference. You should change this. I read this series years ago & judge all others by it. A fantastic concept copied by many authors and rarely matched.
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Summary: Not as good as it's cracked up to be..
Review: This book certainly was not the thrill I had once expected it to be. It ended up being tedious after the first 30 pages or so. The beginning was superb. It seems, however, that Farmer gave up after a while, and just slacked off. However, he made 5 other books after the fact...? Personally, I just didn't think it was that great.
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Summary: Awsome
Review: I read the Riverworld series over 15 years ago and it is still number 1 with me!
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Summary: Wow!
Review: What a sensational novel! Everyone on the planet must read this book in preparation for our own after-life experience, which, I think, won't be as far from the novel as cynics may think. And won't that be interesting? Just a long as I get my rations the same as they do!!!! Seriously though this one hell of a thought provoking series, and an amazing world to lose yourself in. One word of warning, make sure you've got nothing planned for a couple of weeks before you start to read it, YOU WILL BE HOOKED! - B out.
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Summary: Historical Future Fiction - Brilliant
Review: First of all, the blurb for the book here at Amazon notes that "Sir Francis Bacon" is the first to discover the linkages in Riverworld. Not so, it's Sir Richard Francis Burton, the British explorer who's the key character throughout the five books. I got so interested in this character I read several biographies of him after I finished the first three Riverword books! Highly recommended, though the series gets a bit tedious by books four and five.
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Summary: OLDIE BUT GOODIE!!!!
Review: IF YOU CALL YOURSELF A SCIENCE FICTION OR FANTASY FAN THEN YOU ARE REQUIRED TO READ THIS BOOK. CONSIDERING ITS AGE - IT IS AMAZING HOW UP TO DATE IT SEEMS. IF YOU THOUGHT THE MOVIE "THE MATRIX" HAD A GOOD PLOT, YOU WILL LOVE THIS. A GREAT IMAGINATION AT WORK HERE. YOU WILL PROBABLY BE FORCED TO READ THE WHOLE SERIES IF YOU READ THE FIRST, SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST BUY THEM ALL NOW! THEY ARE ALL GOOD.
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Summary: What a journey for the mind...
Review: This first book in the series does a fantastic job of getting the reader's attention. This new journey for a famous "real" explorer is a must for sci-fi buffs. Farmer brings the personality and perserverance of Richard Burton to this new "world". It was fun to watch Burton react to his new surroundings.
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Summary: Crafty little novel
Review: This is a crafty novel that asks the question: what if all of humanity was resurrected on an unknown planet? The first book in the Riverworld Saga follows this question as asked by the book's protagonist, 19th century explorer Richard Burton. Burton finds himself alive and well just after he thought he had been killed on Earth. The story follows him and his occasional group as they try to survive in this new world. Being an explorer and of insatiable thirst for knowledge and the truth, Burton tries far and wide to understand the reason for this mass resurrection. The book does provide some answers, or better, Burton is given glimpses of the truth, although it is uncertain whether this new heaven (hell?) was promulgated by benevolent beings for benevolent reasons. I find it a bit unfortunate that this book, which is the only one I have read so far, has an unsatisfying conclusion with Burton richer in knowledge that is of dubious veracity. From the postscript it appears that the second novel deals with Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain?) and his attempts to grasp his role in this "resurrection".
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Summary: The 1st book to start you on your Science Fiction journey.
Review: This book contains you, me and everyone else on earth. PJF not only captivates you in the first chapter, he takes hold and never lets go. He manages to take historic figures and create new realistic personalities from the old. There's no doubt in my mind that they would have developed exactly as the author envisioned. The landscapes and the infinite river will invite you to read the rest of the Riverworld series and become one of the multitudes to visit PJF's ressurected world. A world like no other.
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