tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post5788924847303238612..comments2024-03-26T17:54:54.592+01:00Comments on Speculiction...: Review of "The Second Trip" by Robert SilverbergUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post-77785788267690197802013-03-04T16:32:39.547+01:002013-03-04T16:32:39.547+01:00I loved The Second Trip -- it's as good as The...I loved The Second Trip -- it's as good as The Man in the Maze.... It's better than Dying Inside (which I enjoyed but thought is rather overrated in comparison to the rest of his corpus). I just wrote a review.... <br /><br />Hmm, yeah, I loved Hawksbill Station and The World Inside.... And of course his most famous, The Tower of Glass but I haven't read that one yet. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post-13026878870568113112013-02-27T13:47:08.079+01:002013-02-27T13:47:08.079+01:00100% agreed. The opener to The Second Trip is ver...100% agreed. The opener to The Second Trip is very promising. But... Downward to the Earth may have that "one horrid scene", The Second Trip has several more...<br /><br />As a whole, Silverberg is on my list of writers who I trust enough to read anything they've written despite his idiosyncrasies. I know that I will always get smooth prose, realistically portrayed characters, and stories that are always more than stories, most having a social, personal, or spiritually transcendent agenda. I see on your site that you are fan of The Man in the Maze and Hawksbill Station. I own the former but have yet to read it. Any other Silverberg titles that are "must reads"? I hear good things about The Book of Skulls...Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07796098208589965362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7670543499274741427.post-82607351169886353162013-02-27T05:10:10.043+01:002013-02-27T05:10:10.043+01:00Reading this now.... I've been really impress...Reading this now.... I've been really impressed with the first 30 or so pages. Silverberg is never that great at depicting female characters --- Downward to Earth was one of my top sci-fi novels until I got to that horrid scene -- a la "she had breasts, and did I mention, she had these HUGE breasts, and they bobbled, and she cried, and she had breasts." Oh Silverberg -- still on of my favorite authors. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com