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65th Madness: The River of Eternity, Volume 1: The 64th World River

River of Eternity, Volume 1: The World River
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
of
Philip Jose Farmer

All the dead are resurrected from the earth!

They wake up today at the edge of a river known - not least on a planet unknown. Died in childhood or very old, obscure or famous, they all now twenty-five years. The golden age ... and after all the good life since, along the river, "stations" offer them food, tobacco, alcohol, etc..

A happiness that does not prevent some from asking questions.


Bouh how poor summary ... Said like that, it is not too keen, and more things are not quite true, there are still children by example, and it is not really the age that the resurrected ... While young, but without precise age ...
I read this book there are over ten years, and I really enjoyed, and for some time, I really want to read it again.
First, it is almost as I remembered. The story is really original, it starts with the awakening of everyone along the river, and the first reaction of each variety.
Immediately, we look to that to be the protagonist of the story: Richard Francis Burton. The famous military officer, fencer explorer, writer and poet, translator, linguist, orientalist, Sufi master, ethnologist, diplomat. For those not familiar with Burton (which as you can imagine the numerous jobs he held, had a rich life): Wiki.
We will follow Burton, who will meet many people, more or less famous, such as Alice who served as the inspiration for "Alice in Wonderland", or one of the first Roman emperors, and others. ..
Burton is the epitome of adventurous as one might imagine, strong, intelligent, charismatic with an aura ... It does not take long to unite a small group around him and they decide to go up the river, going to its source, to try to find something that would help them understand what they're doing ...
But Burton is also a macho, that even if he likes women, still tend to regard them as inferior, and at times it's a bit annoying it must be acknowledged.
I especially hope that this is the character who wants it and not the author's style, but I seem to recall that in the second volume, the main character changes, so we'll see if that machismo is preserved or not.
Anyway, it's a really good book, which after all was not so old, and we always take great pleasure to read, and we did not really want to let go when it started ...

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