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Dreamer of Dreams

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Bob Rimmer covers a lot of his familiar territory here: non-monogamous love and sex-positive religion. The problem is that he has been there before, more effectively, in his other books.

The religion thing has been done in Love Me Tomorrow. One of the main plot elements, being kidnapped in a boat, appeared many years ago in That Girl From Boston. And non-monogamy has a major role in just about everything Bob Rimmer has ever written.

In addition, Dreamer of Dreams suffers from very careless proofreading. Misspelled words and incorrect punctuation abound. It's not bad enough to make it impossible to follow the story, but it is distracting.

If you're new to Bob Rimmer's writing, this isn't the place to start. Pick up The Harrad Experiment, Proposition 31, or Thursday, My Love (all now in print again) instead.

This is yet another book that deserves no stars at all. Robert Rimmer is a well-known twit and advocate of "free love" and other views and "values" best left in the sixties--now apparently he's decided to found a pseudo-religion. The result is the same as always--worship of the self and rampant promiscuity. Anyone who's read any of Rimmer's other books will know that he loves to "justify" a lack of especial love for anyone as being "love for everyone." While a few saintly people in various religious traditions are indeed capable of loving everyone and everything, well and truly, most people are not capable of this and should concentrate on loving their own as well as possible. Followers of Rimmer's idiotic pseudo-creed love only themselves, and treat others as simply objects for their own gratification.