Robert Silverberg - The Book Of Skulls - 5

[mrdude]

<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1857989147.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left">The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg starts off with four college students who have found an ancient manuscript, the book of skulls, that describes of an ancient cult that can teach one how to become immortal. The Boys have discovered that this cult resides in a monastery somewhere in the Arizona desert and that although two of the four can become immortal two must die for this to occur.

There are some definite warnings about this book. Silverberg uses some pretty strong language in this book and there are some relatively explicit sex scenes, some which our Christian friends might want to refrain from reading. Homosexuality is dealt with a lot in this book although I don't personally agree with Silverberg’s opinions on the matter. Overall not a book for your kids to read.

Dialogue in this book is quite long winded but interesting. Silverberg uses a style of writing in which the entire book is in a first person narrative (along with dialogue) but the narrative switches off each chapter with which one of the four kids is telling the story. He does do a good job of having the story told by four very different characters (a Jew, a rich kid, an orphan and a homosexual).

Overall a good read although I would not put it on the top of my list.

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Review also posted at the IBLIST