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title = "The Book of Skulls - Robert Silverberg"
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date = 2018-09-03
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updated = 2021-02-12
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "robert silverberg", "review", "horror", "stars:1",
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"published:1971"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219107.The_Book_of_Skulls):
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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.
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{{ stars(stars=1) }}
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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.
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But that's not the horror of it.
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The horror is a full paragraph of 5 pages.
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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.
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The horror is the idea of one removed by the group and another by themselves
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is never actually explored.
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The horror is that the resolution is predicable for miles.
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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.
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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.
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The horror is the talks about sex like a horny teenage.
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The whole book is the horror, not the story it contains.
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