River God
An ancient kingdom, an incredible destiny
Wilbur Smith
Having read it
★★☆☆☆
Well, it didn’t half go on a bit and to be honest wasn’t a great plot to engage you in the happenings of a story about a certain part of Egyptian history, albeit with, no doubt, plenty of bits of fiction that may have been loosely based on some recorded, ancient history.
Anyway, where was I? Something happened, someone reacted, something else happened and then the story sort of moved on and on it went, slowly ebbing forward to some kind of conclusion, but still there were things to pontificate about and try and describe in some kind of evocative and intriguing way. But, the characters were still searching for a point to the story, even at its end, despite spending their lives looking for it.
A good passage
Even at this remove in time, such folly is still incomprehensible to me. Though I am myself a slave, I believe that slavery and serfdom are the institutions on which the greatness of nations is founded. The rabble cannot govern itself. Government should be entrusted only to those born and trained to it. Freedom is a privilege, not a right. The masses need a strong master, for without control and direction anarchy would reign. The absolute monarch and slavery and serfdom are the pillars of a system that has allowed us to develop into civilised men.