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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">The Book of Skulls - Robert Silverberg</h1>
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2018-09-03
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/robert-silverberg/">#robert silverberg</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/review/">#review</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/horror/">#horror</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-1/">#stars:1</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-1971/">#published:1971</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219107.The_Book_of_Skulls">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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Seeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls,
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four friends, college roommates, go on a spring break trip to Arizona: Eli,
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the scholar, who found and translated the book; Timothy, scion of an American
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dynasty, born and bred to lead; Ned, poet and cynic; and Oliver, the brilliant
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farm boy obsessed with death. </p>
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★☆☆☆☆
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<p>The story of four friends that go after some mysterious book -- said "Book of
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Skulls" -- which tells about the secret for eternal life, but it requires four
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people, one which must be "removed" by the group and another that must "remove"
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themselves.</p>
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<p>But that's not the horror of it.</p>
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<p>The horror is a full paragraph of 5 pages.</p>
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<p>The horror is each chapter being in the view of each of the four friends, but
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they all think exactly the same way.</p>
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<p>The horror is the idea of one removed by the group and another by themselves
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is never actually explored.</p>
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<p>The horror is that the resolution is predicable for miles.</p>
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<p>The horror is a bunch of text copy'n'pasted over and over, like the author was
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being paid by the word.</p>
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<p>The horror is the amount of inane stories of some of the friends' past, which
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add absolutely nothing to the story or for building the character
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personalities.</p>
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<p>The horror is the talks about sex like a horny teenage.</p>
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<p>The whole book is the horror, not the story it contains.</p>
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