![]() Yet there is no satisfying conclusion as Napier and friends are jerked back and forth to new crises and adventures.īurrough's formula became limiting, as the reader knows that Napier will eventually end up with Duare, despite encountering Nalte and finding her a more interesting and dynamic match. The whole business with Skor, from the castle/stronghold of Morov to the city of the dead, Kormor, is the heart of the book, with some truly inventive imagery of the walking dead, the emptiness, and despair. Burroughs has finally taken the mad scientist, removed the science from him, and replaced it with more mental illness. He's _off_ in some unexplainable way, hosting parties of will-less zombies, keeping a slovenly abode, decorating in magpie fashion, yet still interested in obtaining Duare as his lady. ![]() ![]() Skor is an interesting guy, not just because he imbues the dead with unnatural life and seeks to create wholly synthetic organisms. So the story didn't really get going until we meet Skor, the mad scientist and "jong" of Morov and Kormor. I'm not as much for the ADHD aspects of the story rocketing around whenever ERB has gotten bored (especially anything of the theme "monster fight in jungle".) I'm for big, weird set piece ideas and outright nuttiness. ![]()
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