Pyramid Scheme isn’t a new release and it never made the best sellers list but it is worth picking up for some light reading by the pool this summer. Eric Flint and David Freer teamed up for the flight of fancy that throws an unorthodox group of everyday people into a world where ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology is true.
This is the book you wished you could have read in high school rather than the Odyssey. Light hearted and fun, entertainment is always around in this story where the wins a ride with Odysseus and his crew by shooting craps, runs into sphinx, both of them actually, the Egyptian and Greek version and makes some interesting new friend as they try to find their way out of the pyramid reality and back to modern earth.
There are several classic scenes in this demolition derby romp through mythology. The creation of a sorceress through the magic of a butane lighter and a Marlboro light, the dietary habits of toothless dragons and the continuing saga of the bottomless purse.
Flint and Freer did well in not overplaying the overused “lost world” premise and found a way to make even the kidnapping of the group and background as to why entertaining. Parents should know there is a few drops of rough language here and there that might or might not earned it a warning label if it was a music CD. Read it through yourselves and if the teenager just came off a six week suffering of the classic Homer story, decide if they might read Pyramid in revenge against the curriculum. English teachers will belly ache laugh or pray no student of theirs reads the work.
Pyramid Scheme is available in paperback from Baen Books.

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