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CDRBill rated it

8 years ago

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Good novel with a great story idea. Every human being (and one alien) that ever lived on Earth is resurrected on an alien world beside a river millions of miles long. Everyone is naked and hairless. They have a canister strapped to their arm that, when placed in "grails" spaced along the river, is f...

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Bettie's Books rated it

10 years ago

text The Dark Design by Philip José Farmer

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Bettie's Books rated it

10 years ago

text The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip José Farmer

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Bettie's Books rated it

10 years ago

text To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer

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Julian Meynell's Books rated it

10 years ago

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This book is the first in the Riverworld series by Farmer. It reminds me very much of Heinlein at his most cantankerous and misanthropic. The story is that all the human beings that have ever lived wake up at the same time on the banks of a river millions of miles long.The protagonist is a real pers...

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Farnaz rated it

10 years ago

text To Your Scattered Bodies Go

1972 Hugo Winner!

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Book Reviews for the Semi-Literate rated it

11 years ago

text Mother Was a Lovely Beast: A Feral Man Anthology (Fiction and Fact About Humans Raised by Animals)

I have only read Farmer's story in this anthology, Extracts from the Memoirs of "Lord Greystoke", Tarzan of the Apes's firsthand account of his early life. Tarzan dispels errors and inconsistencies contained in Edgar Rice Burroughs' original stories, (not to mention inaccuracies written by Farmer h...

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MartynVHalm rated it

11 years ago

text Blown - An Exorcism: Ritual Two

This book, and its predecessor, [b:Image of the Beast - An Exorcism: Ritual One|2132238|Image of the Beast - An Exorcism Ritual One|Philip José Farmer|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1238932373s/2132238.jpg|1301569], are the first books I read where the author truly mixed totally differ...

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MartynVHalm rated it

11 years ago

text Image of the Beast - An Exorcism: Ritual One

This book, and its follow up, [b:Blown - An Exorcism: Ritual Two|1875531|Blown - An Exorcism Ritual Two|Philip José Farmer|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1332670497s/1875531.jpg|1876484], are the first books I read where the author truly mixed totally different genres in a beautiful me...

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Lisa (Harmony) rated it

11 years ago

text To Your Scattered Bodies Go

This is the opening novel in Farmer's Riverworld and was a fantastic read. I just cracked open the book and hours later I blink having reached the last page--so smooth style and page turner. This was written in 1971 but didn't read as dated, aside from that time's Environmental Doom Fad(tm). The p...

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