To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Philip José Farmer
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Imaginative World That Falls a Little Flat

Allie
4/16/2012
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To All Your Scattered Bodies Go is an adventure story set in a world that stretches along a massive river, where all of humanity is mysteriously resurrected.  The novel’s strong points were the world itself and the characters’ attempts to determine its nature and purpose.  The weaker points were poor characterization, lack of a strong sense of the multicultural tangle of the Riverworld, awkward writing, and the heavy dose of overt sexism brought in by narrator Richard Burton.  There were plenty of ideas to like in Farmer’s Riverworld, but, for me, they were not enough to overcome the novel’s weaknesses. I am glad to have read To All Your Scattered Bodies Go, but I doubt I will continue on with the rest of the series.

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