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A review by otterno11
Easy Go by John Lange
2.0
Retro Review
This was a musty mass paperback I picked up in the free pile at my local library book sale maybe 18 years ago (yikes) on a whim, and quickly read through as a distraction my first semester in college.
It was dumb, but fun, I guess, and even while memory of the details of the story have faded over time, the broadly stereotypical characters and pulpy Egyptian setting has stuck with me. Two stars for that, anyway, though I don’t think I’ll ever be revisiting it as I’m sure it’s retrograde gender and cultural ideas will have only gotten more noticeable since then. It wasn’t too surprising when I looked up the book years later out of curiosity, long after having gotten rid of it, and found that it was an early Michael Crichton product written under a pseudonym.
This was a musty mass paperback I picked up in the free pile at my local library book sale maybe 18 years ago (yikes) on a whim, and quickly read through as a distraction my first semester in college.
It was dumb, but fun, I guess, and even while memory of the details of the story have faded over time, the broadly stereotypical characters and pulpy Egyptian setting has stuck with me. Two stars for that, anyway, though I don’t think I’ll ever be revisiting it as I’m sure it’s retrograde gender and cultural ideas will have only gotten more noticeable since then. It wasn’t too surprising when I looked up the book years later out of curiosity, long after having gotten rid of it, and found that it was an early Michael Crichton product written under a pseudonym.