A review by crowfood
The Face by Jack Vance

4.0

Another fun volume chronicling the quest of Kirth Gerson.

Favorite quotes:


"If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grimtholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another’s mind."

"An ancient proverb stipulates that ‘he who sups with the devil should use a long spoon.’
You would seem to have attempted such a meal with a small dessert fork.”