Dull World War

U. S. S. Paradise, by Hawes C. Harris. 237 pp. New York: Comet Press Books. $3.00

Few story subjects appeal so directly and powerfully to the human imagination as the plight of the man who, alone or with a few companions, has been cast ashore on an uninhabited island in uncharted seas. A hundred romances, as various as Robinson Crusoe, Verne’s Mysterious Island, and Neville’s Isle of Pines, have been devoted to this perennially fascinating theme, but this latest addition to the series will not be long remembered. The author’s mediocre and often faulty prose makes even a verdant isle in the far Pacific seem drab. The three men and three women who are cast ashore on it are chiefly remarkable for an unfailing ability to remain commonplace in the most extraordinary situations. Their isolation is terminated by the Third World War in 195-, but in these pages even war is dull. R. p. o.

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U. S. S. Paradise, by Hawes C. Harris. 237 pp. New York: Comet Press Books. $3.00

Few story subjects appeal so directly and powerfully to the human imagination as the plight of the man who, alone or with a few companions, has been cast ashore on an uninhabited island in uncharted seas. A hundred romances, as various as Robinson Crusoe, Verne’s Mysterious Island, and Neville’s Isle of Pines, have been devoted to this perennially fascinating theme, but this latest addition to the series will not be long remembered. The author’s mediocre and often faulty prose makes even a verdant isle in the far Pacific seem drab. The three men and three women who are cast ashore on it are chiefly remarkable for an unfailing ability to remain commonplace in the most extraordinary situations. Their isolation is terminated by the Third World War in 195-, but in these pages even war is dull. R. p. o.