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Dickens. Salinger. Absurd. Current.

Revisado: 06-22-22

This novel was worthy of the Pulitzer. Wordy, yes, but erudite, edifying, and insightful. Boris is a transient teen Russian existentialist Tom Sawyer who finds our hero, a manhattan orphan with a heart of love, virtue and promise in a sin city coming of age circumstance. The morass of addiction cycles; the paralysis of guilt and shame and fear; the matter of fact experience of being bullied and moving on; the accumulated trauma of poor decision after poor decision; the notion of gender identity without judgement; and the learned experience from museums, books, and the streets--an ambitious scope contained in a seeming moment of clarity of the human condition. This is a rich novel that captures a time and cast as Owen Meaney's prayer did almost 25 years ago. It reminds me of Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero--apparently a classmate of the author. The movie, well cast, sucks.

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ugh

Revisado: 05-03-22

I like marvel comics. I like thrillers. I like graphic novels. I like stories. I like literature. I like wordplay. This was comic to prose mediocrity. Redundancy, cliche, and predictability. I would see see it comic form, but unless it came up with an original thought I wouldn't read beyond first issue. It tries to maximize the dead man's vault (if?), it fails.

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brilliant

Revisado: 10-09-20

it is a thirty hour introduction to the rest of the series. however, with references to yeats, tolkien, lewis Carrol, mythology, williams creates a digital universe and real world conspiracies prescient 25 years ago, applicable even now. languages and characters weave a rich tapestry of cultures and 20th century colonial greed. george new bern inhabits a wide variety of characters from all seven continents, and his clarity pace and talent are extraordinary. was hoping for resolution, but only found more questions at the end. a star wars of a book.

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a great start

Revisado: 06-29-20

first half of the book was amazing, good characters, awesome development....but then climax choices disrupted flow and stretched the realm of disbelief

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a disciple of crichton

Revisado: 01-30-20

upside: reminds me of Andromeda Strain an Jurassic Park. An homage.

downside: after the fact the author references those two titles in the epilogue....a great book, but obviously influenced by Michael Crichton.

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Zachary Quinto is the highlight

Revisado: 12-29-19

the conceit is a bit far fetched, but once you get past it, the story is interesting, humorous andb clever. Zachary Quinto is a great narrator, slipping between characters and emotions with skill and craftsman commitment.

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