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Lovelock (Mayflower Trilogy #1)
Lovelock is a capuchin monkey engineered to be the perfect servant--intelligent, agile, pliant, and devoted to his owner. He is a Witness--privileged to spend his days and nights observing the life of one of Earth's most brilliant scientists through digital recording devices behind his eyes. In his heart is the desire to please, not just to avoid the pain his owner can inf...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
February 10th 2001
by Tor Books
(first published June 21st 1994)
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While I did like the story I can't recommend the book. This is part one of a trilogy that was never completed. It's now 15 years and counting since I read it and still no books two and three. Come to think of it, why am I still looking?
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Lovelock, the capuchin monkey genetically engineered to be extremely intelligent, and to desire to serve his master. He was made to witness and digitally record a scientifically brilliant scientists every move to include her personal life. Lovelock is different from other witnesses though, because he is smart enough to recognize what a slave is, and to what level of respect he gets from those he serves. But is he smart enough to overcome his conditioning in order to break the bonds of slavery? D...more
I always though it was a great exposition on the concept that "no man is an island." In the process of witnessing the effect of interpersonal relationships upon the concept of identity for individual people, the protagonist realizes the vast unfulfillment of being truly alone. I thought it was a unique and powerful story. I always wished they'd come back and finish this series...
Imagine a time when famous scientists have enhanced animals and/or birds to witness or record what happens around them. This is the case when Lovelock, an enhanced capuchin monkey witnesses for Carol Jean Cocciolone, world famous scientist who will be in charge of a group of experts preparing a world for inhabitation by a colony of people. In the meantime the people who live aboard a spaceship to create community bonding and begin to understand how life will be on the new planet. The tale is tol...more
Disfrute de esta perspectiva de un mono superinteligente, aunque no llego a ser una historia tan elaborada como suelen ser las Scott Card si me gusto el humor del narrador
solo que no recomendaría este libro por el simple hecho de que hace mas de 10 años que se espera la secuela y eso de dejar las sagas a la mitad no agrada a nadie.
solo que no recomendaría este libro por el simple hecho de que hace mas de 10 años que se espera la secuela y eso de dejar las sagas a la mitad no agrada a nadie.
Do not under any circumstances read this book! Just don't. Trust me. If you read this one, out of nowhere will come the image of a monkey...well, spanking the monkey. You don't want that in your brain.
Meh. That's all I can really say about this book. I read it only because a friend recommended it to me, and I like Orson Scott Card.
Watching the disintegration of a family, and seeing all the most negative traits played over and over again, was a bit depressing. After a while, I didn't even enjoy reading about Lovelock. I finished it just to see how it ended, but I started skimming the book at about 3/4 way through. I'd only recommend it if you are an Orson Scott Card fan, but if you are, I woul...more
Watching the disintegration of a family, and seeing all the most negative traits played over and over again, was a bit depressing. After a while, I didn't even enjoy reading about Lovelock. I finished it just to see how it ended, but I started skimming the book at about 3/4 way through. I'd only recommend it if you are an Orson Scott Card fan, but if you are, I woul...more
I expect more from a novel by Card. He may have been as disappointed as I was, given that the second volume of this purported trilogy has been pending for almost 20 years.
Oj ciężki temat. Małpa kapucynka oddaje się autoerotyzmowi na krążowniku kosmicznym. Podlane nieodłącznym filozoficznym dressingiem. Dla amatorów raczej, chociaż na kibel w sam raz.
I just found a list of books I read as a teen. I have to admit I don't remember this one, so I'll just have to trust my rating from the time.
I'm not a big sci fi fan and found this tedious and no desire for the next one in the series (if it ever gets written).
Jul 14, 2009
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Beware! Beware! This is the first book of a trilogy that WAS NEVER FINISHED. Don't read it.
Loved it! Wish the trilogy would happen! Maybe the Ender "trilogy" is getting in the way!
This book was OK, but I don't believe it ranks with most of Card's other books.
Lovelock (Mayflower Trilogy) by Orson Scott Card (1995)
Liked this a lot. Wish he got around to writing book two..
My review can be found here: http://obsessivebookworm.wordpress.co...
Sep 26, 2012
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Dreadful.
Well written, and a very interesting story/perspective. But there was enough issues with bodily functions that don't think this would be appropriate reading for anyone under the ages of 16-18 in my opinion. I would never recommend it to one of my children. Also, the fact that it was intended to be a trilogy and they only wrote one book makes it disappointing as well. Only for die hard fans of the authors in my opinion, or for those who like things a little edgy guess.
It has been 7 or 8 years since reading this book, but the fact that I can remember some of it is something...
A lot of the surroindings (the ship) are described in a way that some of it sticks. However I do recall not getting emotionally invested in the story, and not finding the monkey terribly likable. So... eh, not really worth picking up, when there are so many better space adventures to be read.
Memorability factor: 6/10
A lot of the surroindings (the ship) are described in a way that some of it sticks. However I do recall not getting emotionally invested in the story, and not finding the monkey terribly likable. So... eh, not really worth picking up, when there are so many better space adventures to be read.
Memorability factor: 6/10
Sad that this trilogy ended up being only one book. The ending was interesting anyway. Written in memoir format, but an interesting read.
Extraordinary book - especially as it's told from the perspective of a sentient, genius monkey. I find scifi/fant writers often make the mistake that new scifi actors do – they simply over do it. OSC, a seasoned writer, has a signature style that is descriptive but not gratuitous. He has a knack of causing readers to view the world from behind his characters’ eyes. Even monkey eyes.
This was a very moving book about a genetically enhanced monkey who deals with loneliness on a space ship full of humans finds himself in the midst of a moral quagmire having to chose the fate of another creature. Beautifully written, I have read it twice
One of my favorite Card books. A look at family relationships which is what Orson Scott Card does best. I don't think this series will ever be finished which makes me sad.
goofy title, cool premise. Card gets back to his sci-fi: colonization, big space ship capable of sustaining a population for 100's of years. I loved the imagery
Simultaneously the best book about a brilliant mind trapped in a monkey trapped in space and the worst book OSC has written, for exactly the same reasons.
Actually, this is one of the few books I've ever NOT finished. Just couldn't get into it, and the relationships all seemed so negative...
Too bad he says he's never going to finish the trilogy. The first, and only one, is awesome.
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Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools.
Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series Th...more
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Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy (Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels (Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series Th...more
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