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A review by wyntrchylde
Escape from Hell by Larry Niven
5.0
Escape from Hell
By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Publisher: Tor
Published In: New York, New York, USA
Date: 2009
Pgs: 332
Summary:
Allen has escaped hell once already, but he is haunted. He needs to liberate those souls he feels are being unfairly tortured and confined. He is on a mission to harrow hell and free the deserving damned. The question is, “Now that he has returned to Hell, can he leave again.”
Genre:
Dogma, religion, redemption, good vs. evil
Main Character:
Allen Carpenter…re: Carpentier
Favorite Character:
It has to be Allen. A science fiction writer who died and found himself in hell. And now seeks meaning and redemption while exploring hell and freeing those he feels deserve it.
Least Favorite Character:
Rosemary. She seems intent on repeating her mistakes from her previous life.
Favorite Scene:
It has to be the Oppenheimer scene in the climax. Helluva climax.
Plot Holes/Out of Character:
It seemed like there were too many characters disappearing from the troupe in too short a number of pages through the third quarter of the book. It didn’t feel rushed. It just seemed like someone was missing. Not something I can put my finger on exactly.
Last Page Sound:
This leaves me with a very similar feeling to what I had at the end of the first book, Inferno. It’s an ending with a wide open future stretching before it. But not in the sense that the story isn’t complete. The story is, in its way, complete. But there is a doorway to more.
Author Assessment:
I love them. I will read anything that they write together.
Disposition of Book:
Keep it
By Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Publisher: Tor
Published In: New York, New York, USA
Date: 2009
Pgs: 332
Summary:
Allen has escaped hell once already, but he is haunted. He needs to liberate those souls he feels are being unfairly tortured and confined. He is on a mission to harrow hell and free the deserving damned. The question is, “Now that he has returned to Hell, can he leave again.”
Genre:
Dogma, religion, redemption, good vs. evil
Main Character:
Allen Carpenter…re: Carpentier
Favorite Character:
It has to be Allen. A science fiction writer who died and found himself in hell. And now seeks meaning and redemption while exploring hell and freeing those he feels deserve it.
Least Favorite Character:
Rosemary. She seems intent on repeating her mistakes from her previous life.
Favorite Scene:
It has to be the Oppenheimer scene in the climax. Helluva climax.
Plot Holes/Out of Character:
It seemed like there were too many characters disappearing from the troupe in too short a number of pages through the third quarter of the book. It didn’t feel rushed. It just seemed like someone was missing. Not something I can put my finger on exactly.
Last Page Sound:
This leaves me with a very similar feeling to what I had at the end of the first book, Inferno. It’s an ending with a wide open future stretching before it. But not in the sense that the story isn’t complete. The story is, in its way, complete. But there is a doorway to more.
Author Assessment:
I love them. I will read anything that they write together.
Disposition of Book:
Keep it