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title = "The Book of Skulls - Robert Silverberg"
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date = 2018-09-03
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category = "review"
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tags = ["books", "en-au", "robert silverberg"]
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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 Skulls" -- which tells about the secret for eternal life, but it requires four people, one which must be "removed" by the group and another that must be "removed" by 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 they all think exactly the same way.
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The horror is the the idea of one removed by the group and another by themselves 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 being paid by the word.
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The horror is the amount of inane stories of some of the friends' past, which add absolutely nothing to the story or for building the character 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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