Eduardo Gonzabay Gonzabay itibaren Zhivinje, Makedonya (FYROM)
İnanılmaz bir kitap. Yazarın kendilerini başka birinin zihniyetine gerçekten attığını bildiğinde seviyorum ve otizmli bir kişinin zihnine girmekten daha zor bir görev hayal edemiyorum. Tüm kitap boyunca Christopher'ın akıl yürütme çizgisini takip edebilmeyi sevdim ve okuyucunun böyle mantıksız bir dünyanın nasıl bu kadar mantıklı ve matematiksel bir akıl için bu kadar kafa karıştırıcı olabileceğini anlamasını sağladı.
An epic story full of mystery, adventure, and interesting characters that falls a bit flat, because the delivery is so dry. I enjoyed the idea of this book more than the book itself.
Not bad. Thought this was the last book in the series. Why does every series have to be so long nowadays?
** spoiler alert ** Fanny Price character is lovely. she showed how Beggars can be choosers.
The one set in a near-future India, where a non-natural object is found in the asteroid belt which is older than the solar system and contains pictures of three humans currently alive. Leadership and scientific struggles at the nation's largest power company; a religious revolt; a Muslim government minister brought down by his passion for an artificial third gender called nutes; AIs thousands of times more intelligent than humans, outlawed and hunted down by a police branch called Krishna Cops. I would have been willing to sacrifice a good deal of this breadth for just a little depth. The characters are chessmen: they have a certain set of characteristics at the start of the book, a certain pattern of moves, and they make those moves, and at the end of the book their circumstances may have changed, but the characters themselves are entirely unchanged, unless they're dead. This is a grand old SF characterization tradition, of course, and at least these characters are plausible, unlike the Buck Rogers-style SF characters -- but still, in the end they don't read as real people because they walk through their established paces without changing. I found the politics completely opaque, but I'm ignorant of Indian politics (and even geography) and probably didn't read carefully enough. I have a serious problem with the nutes. They should be utterly alien -- they've had all gender-related pathways removed from their brains and their body chemistry, in favor of a system by which they consciously control their hormone release (Tal decides it needs adrenaline, so it pushes a button) -- and yet they act either like very girly women or like very stereotypically diva-ish gay men. Possibly this wouldn't trouble me quite so much if there were any actual gay people in the story, but there aren't. And except for Vishram Ray (who I find is the only major character I have any real affection for), there's really no normal sexuality in the book -- when arousal is reported, most of the time it's related to cruelty or danger. The thing that interests me most -- the AIs and their stories -- is covered in about three pages at the end and then rushed offstage.
another great book from dekker. obvious christian background, but presents it so relevently.
A free-verse quick teen read...sequel is "What my girlfriend doesn't know".
a little story about the old world following immigrants to the new.