Lexicon
At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren’t taught history, geography, or mathematics at least not in the usual ways...
At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren’t taught history, geography, or mathematics at least not in the usual ways...
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ISBN:
9781594205385 (1594205388)
ASIN: 978159420538
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
What a fun read. Interesting ideas, good use of fantasy, characters I cared for, worried about a bit and wanted to come out OK. A fairly romance-heavy speculative book (I really wouldn't call it sci-fi, but I'm no master at these things. Seemed like sci-fi lite, at most.) Romance is not my normal fa...
Lexicon is a book about words, about using them to manipulate and control the world around you. About power, balances, and relationships. In some ways Lexicon is a light thriller with a unique premise. In other ways it is a very complex and multilayered story. Part of my reason for picking it as...
Lexicon is, at it's heart, a story about neurolinguistic programming and what happens when a group of people not only have access to its power, but keep it a secret from the rest of the human race. It's clever, weaving in recent politics and societal trends into the framework of conspiracy, and pai...
Read this and thought to myself: what an underwhelming ending, which has been happening a lot lately with my recent reads. But let me just talk about the rest of the novel.I wasn’t a huge fan of the main characters when I first met them, but both started growing on me as the narration began revealin...
Max Barry is now one of my "I think I'll read everything he's written" authors. I've been reading science fiction for decades, so I know how rare it is to come across a book like "Lexicon" which has not just a new ideas, but a clever, well-thought through plot, written by someone who is skilled at...
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