A review by jacalata
The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg

2.0

ok is the wrong word. It was weird. Deliberately so in some ways, in other ways I think it's the 70s writing context coming through, which is fascinating - the book is written in first person narrative by four college boys, one gay and one Jewish, and half the book seems to be dealing with stereotypes thereof. The central weirdness of the possibility of eternal life barely comes into it, and you could have written the exact same book calling it fiction if you just said it was a cult. (Although Silverberg does have an interesting foreword on 'is this science fiction?' which deals with that)