The Feeble in Pemberley House

The Evil in Pemberley House by Philip José Farmer

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


[CAUTION: MILD SPOILERS] You've got to be kidding me. I didn't think I'd be able to finish this homage to the Doc Savage series (is a really cheesy homage called a fromage?) after I'd read the first 30 pages or so, but it did get slightly better when the leering let up and the mystery started. Still, it's a silly tale, full of creepy psychological hangups, preposterous happenstance, and gratuitous couplings. I give it an extra star just for the full-out lunacy of the climactic fight scene, which features air guns, girls punching girls, numerous dead bodies, and our naked protagonist maneuvering through a forest in the rain by swinging (I think) through the treetops, a skill her father taught her. Bottom line: I can't recommend The Evil in Pemberly House, unless you're eleven, it's 1974, and you just found this book under the sofa in your Uncle Leonard's guest room. Careful, though. Some of the pages are stuck together.



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