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A review by traveller1
A Feast Unknown by Philip José Farmer
2.0
Having re-read this novel I do not have as good an opinion of it as do many of my fellow gr reviewers. The story is one long battle, a detailed description of how the protagonist, Tarzan (more or less), defeats, with his superhuman strength and endurance, his many enemies. The background is a group of near immortals known as the "Nine", who manipulate Tarzan, his opponents, and the world for their nefarious ends.
What is supposed to make this a killer of a story is the sex. Here our hero can only get erect when he is killing someone (or thinking about killing someone), he also eats testicles and the occasional clitoris. Umm, I cannot find any real need for this in the story, apart from a clumsy desire to shock, redolent of the times in which the novel was written.
I found myself flicking through the second half of the novel. It was no more than pages of predictable battle. Boring.
Pass.
What is supposed to make this a killer of a story is the sex. Here our hero can only get erect when he is killing someone (or thinking about killing someone), he also eats testicles and the occasional clitoris. Umm, I cannot find any real need for this in the story, apart from a clumsy desire to shock, redolent of the times in which the novel was written.
I found myself flicking through the second half of the novel. It was no more than pages of predictable battle. Boring.
Pass.