BOOK Niven and Pournelle's Inferno

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Many, many times.

Quite good–but the ending–not theologically correct.

Jerry is a believer, dont know about Larry.
 
Lion_of_Narnia said:
Many, many times.

Quite good–but the ending–not theologically correct.

Jerry is a believer, dont know about Larry.
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Even worse than the theological problem, the narrator who is obvious very well-read and recognizes everybody from Henry VIII to Billy the Kid fails to recognize his tour guide, Benito Mussolini!?

Puh-leeze!
 
MoBeck said:
Even worse than the theological problem, the narrator who is obvious very well-read and recognizes everybody from Henry VIII to Billy the Kid fails to recognize his tour guide, Benito Mussolini!?

Puh-leeze!
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the authors give enough clues so they’re playing fair with the readers. while mussolini might be expected to be found in hell, his stand-in for virgil is a surprise, one of the last persons anyone would expect in that role.

the theology doesn’t bother me.
 
MoBeck said:
Even worse than the theological problem, the narrator who is obvious very well-read and recognizes everybody from Henry VIII to Billy the Kid fails to recognize his tour guide, Benito Mussolini!?

Puh-leeze!
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Actually, Carpentier dosn’t recognize William Boney–and yeah, we the reader get it right away, I think its the one “suspension of disbelief” Larry & Jerry ask us to swallow if we’re reading a book about Hell in the first place…😃
 
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