Zodiac
Two centuries after the Boston Tea Pariy, harbor dumping is still a favorite local sport, only this time it's major corporations piping toxic wastes into the water. Environmentalist and professional pain in the ass Sangamon taylor is Boston's modern-day Paul Revere, spreading the word from a...
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Two centuries after the Boston Tea Pariy, harbor dumping is still a favorite local sport, only this time it's major corporations piping toxic wastes into the water. Environmentalist and professional pain in the ass Sangamon taylor is Boston's modern-day Paul Revere, spreading the word from a 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. Embarrassing powerful corporations in highly telegenic
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Pages no: 308
Edition language: English
Zodiac is the first book I’ve read by Neal Stephenson, an author I see mentioned fairly often, often with mixed reviews. My own reaction to this particular book is a little mixed. The title, Zodiac, refers to a type of motorized raft the characters used. The story is set in Boston and is told fro...
Sangamon Taylor might actually be the love of my life (and, as far as I'm concerned, the fact that he's an emotionally unavailable, fictional character is kind of a win-win). By my metrics of greatness, billing ST (that's what all the cool kids call him) as the “Granola James Bond” undersells him by...
Zodiac is described as an eco-thriller, which about sums it up, actually! It certainly is a thriller - I read all 290 or so pages in one (long) night, gripped from the outset. The hero of the story is a chemist working for GEE, a direct action environmental organisation, in its Boston branch. He'...
A great adventure story—an “eco-thriller,” if you will. This is Stephenson's most conventional book, in that the main character stays the main character throughout, and the Big Bad he fights remains the villain throughout. The presence of consistancy was a nice change from his more frenetic works,...
17 years ago
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