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🎧 This is a difficult review. I feel like the Hogwart‘s sorting hat. 🧐

It‘s obviously a bit dated. A few TWs. On some level it felt poorly written. That could be due to the dialog being dated. But the ideas!! This story is going to haunt the cobwebs of my mind for a long time.

Dead humans wake up naked & hairless on a River world. It gets stranger.

Hermann Goering as a prominent character?

A very strange interesting book.

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My fifth book I think was a disappointment, because it is award-winning and considered a classic but I just thought it was tedious. The premise is interesting--after death, all humans wake in a new body on the bank of a giant river. Being humans, they quickly wage war on each other and rape and pillage, more from boredom than anything else. The main character is famous, good at everything, and completely an ass.

Found these pretties today at one of my used book store haunts. Love the Riverworld series. Love the covers.

I read the first... three? Maybe?... books in the Riverworld series in college. The premise is pretty wild.

Every person that ever lived on Earth ever awakens in young healthy bodies on the banks of #theRiver that goes on forever. This opens up a lot of story avenues, because you've got unlimited characters to work with.

The main characters are Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain, and Alice Liddell. Julius Caesar shows up too. #RockinMay

Nearly everything about this was terrible. It may have won a Hugo for best novel, but it really doesn't hold up well at all, imo. Terrible characters and terrible plot ruin a potentially interesting idea.