Opening Line: “Nailer clambered through a service duct, tugging at copper wire and yanking it free.” Wow what a world Paolo Bacigalupi has created here with Ship Breaker. I won’t say this is the best dystopian book I’ve read but it’s definitely up there as the freakiest in terms of a plausible or ev...
"Listen, Nailer. You're not your dad. If you were your dad, you'd be down on the beach, drinking with your friends, looking for a girl to keep you company tonight, and feeling pleased with yourself. You wouldn't be up here worrying about why you don't feel worse."I've run across a couple of books re...
I finished reading Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker a few days ago, and was immensely relieved yesterday to find its companion book, The Drowned Cities at the local library. The story was gripping, inventive, and thrilling, and the characters were just as memorable as the eerie, distant future con...
I downgraded this from to-read to maybe-to-read since it's both part of an unfinished series and young adult. There's such a flood of YA series fiction these days, and so much of it sub-par and/or poorly edited I'm wary.
Title: Ship BreakerAuthor: Paolo BacigalupiFormat: Audio CD (unabridged)Read by: Joshua SwansonReview from GoodReads:In America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts, Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quot...
Really clever worldbuilding, and really memorable and dynamic characters. I think what I loved best was the way the world unfolded piece by piece, becoming a bigger and bigger place for us even as it did for Nailer. No idea why I sat on this one so long--I was so caught up in it I just read the whol...
The story picked up the pace during the latter half of the book and its well worth the wait. The world-building is excellent and the action is palpable. There is a steampunk aura in the environment due to the ship breaking and oil issues. In fact, the world is meticulously futuristic to the modern w...
Me aburrió a la mitad, de hecho me aburrió prácticamente al principio. Me obligué a seguir leyendo y no.Carece de un anzuelo al inicio, un gancho para el lector. Y es leeeento.La Chica Mecánica era parecido, pero comenzaba con el personaje recorriendo un mercado y luego matando un mastodonte, wow! É...
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