The final page has been turned, the book closed and rested on my chest. How best can I describe my current state? Disorientation? Lightheadedness? General strangeness? Bernard Beckett just shocked the blazes out of me with his ending to Genesis. Even the hair blowing on the front cover remained myst...
Have to admit, after reading the description and reviews, I was expecting much more of a book than this little novella, really, not much more than a glorified short story. The post-apoc setting was pretty well constructed, but anyone well read in the genre will be able to figure out the twists of th...
Have to admit, after reading the description and reviews, I was expecting much more of a book than this little novella, really, not much more than a glorified short story. The post-apoc setting was pretty well constructed, but anyone well read in the genre will be able to figure out the twists of th...
I went into this book pretty blindly, having only added it after seeing a few well known reviewers highly recommend it. In fact, I was surprised that it took me only a few hours to read, having not noticed that it is a mere 150 pages. At first, I was a little annoyed at the way Beckett tells the bac...
*sigh* Yet another highly recommended book that I just didn't enjoy. I thought that the beginning of this book, the history leading up to the formation of the Republic, was the best part. It was realistic and plausible and real. This is why I'm giving this two stars instead of just one. The rest was...
So there's been a huge run on dystopian (young adult) stuff for the last few years. As a huge fan of dystopian works, I'm both thrilled (at the push for my favorite sub-genre) and disappointed (at how many of them suck). This book is not only awesome, but manages awesome in just 150 pages.It's wri...
Dystopia is the new cool kid on the block of young adult genre literature. Readers of this genre are familiar with the storylines and themes: teenagers struggling to survive in a scary society that sets kids against each other for entertainment; a creepy society sets kids against each other in ord...
My high school U.S. history and economics teacher had this cardboard cutout of a monkey that said something like, “ARE YOU THE HUNDREDTH MONKEY?” The monkey was looking very Uncle Sam in his pose, so it felt imperative that you either be or not be the hundredth monkey. So, there was a kind of unde...
Okay. So I really really like this book. But I can understand why others might not.Genesis definitely made me rethink what it means to be human, and if that definition adequately differentiates man from machine. Art makes a very good point on pp. 98-99; but in the end, I agree with Adam: 'I am not a...
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