So, I'm not sure how to digest this book. In some ways it was great: I loved the concept, I thought the overall way it played out was interesting (language as poison and children as immune, the development of quarantine sites and experimental labs, even the way that ultimately people could live in ...
I really struggled with how to rate this, because I was so ambivalent while reading it. There were sections I loved and sections that I really had to work to get through. The plot is so unique and such an interesting concept: an apocalyptic book in which the epidemic is language itself. Children's s...
Imaginen una enfermedad rara cualquiera. Los síntomas no importan en realidad. Solo piensen, á la Dr. House, en la cantidad de estudios necesarios para diagnosticarla. Exámenes de todos los fluidos posibles. Imaginen todos los diagnosticos que pueden darse. Imaginen los factores que se les ocurriría...
It's too long, is what it is.I'd agree with most other reviewers who report that it's conceptually cool and well-written and everything. But it could probably be half this length or shorter.
This was a great premise, but by page 130 he still hadn't got past describing symptoms. Part II seemed slightly more promising, but I just completely lost interest. Was there a point?
The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcusby J.G. BallardThey had now reached an area where the desert gave way to salt dunes and then to a substantial expanse of water that Travis tentatively identified as the Dead Sea. His wife at first disagreed, but the Jeep contained no maps, and her knowledge of the loc...
I have upped my previous review and deleted it. This book is interesting and disturbing. So many questions come out of reading this book that makes me wonder what place the author Ben Marcus is at. I'm currently 50% through the book, hoping to finish it in the next day or two.I have decidedly upped ...
No children were harmed in the production of this review.One for the apedotropic, or apaedotropic, if you prefer. One for those of you who, like me, think children should be raised on collective farms in Montana and returned some time after they’ve reached the Age of Consent or Voting Age (whichever...
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