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Ship Breaker -
Ship Breaker
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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 quota—and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship... show more
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 quota—and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life. . . .In this powerful novel, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set in a vivid and raw, uncertain future.
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780316056212
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Edition language: English
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Just Another Reader
Just Another Reader rated it
3.0
Ship Breaker is one of those books I don't know how I really feel about it. I enjoyed it, I think. There were just a lot of sections I did not connect with and I think it brought the book down. Joshua Swanson was ann okay narrator, but I never felt like he did a great job with any of the female ch...
Reading with a Vengeance
Reading with a Vengeance rated it
4.0 Ship Breaker
Ship Breaker is one of those books that suffers a lot from how close it came to being something spectacular. I started reading, encountered all these marvelous characters and concepts, and I got my hopes up. I got my hopes way up. And my hopes crashed and burned. My hopes are a stripper in LA st...
Tracy's Stay in Midian
Tracy's Stay in Midian rated it
4.0 Ship Breaker
Great book, can't wait for the next one.
Books With Bite
Books With Bite rated it
4.0 Ship Breaker
This book is nothing like I expected it to be. As I began reading, it took on a road that I never seen before. I loved the action, the suspense, but I also enjoyed the fear of anger, hurt, and love the flowed between the pages.The reader is presented with a character that is strong yet fearful of go...
Osho
Osho rated it
3.0 Ship Breaker
Middle- to young adult novel with a pretty straightforward plot, post-apocalyptic but not as dystopian as The Windup Girl. The worldbuilding is pretty good, though the language is less rich (and less grim) than in his adult works. I try hard to picture the half-men as Daniel Lee's Manimals, but usu...
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