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"Incredible so far...I can hardly put it down!"
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I'm still kind of ruminating on this book...it reminds me a lot of others of its kind; Brave New World, 1984, etc. It was a flood of information, character, and warning, but I could never quite slip into the manner in which it was told. It felt like the book held me at arm's length the whole time, which perhaps was just another facet of its message.
Some parts were very good and very creative; Violet's ruminations, the blips of strange, beautifully and frighteningly worded ads and promises that ended each chapter. Some of the description was wonderful, weird new ways of talking about something, letting the reader see just how different this future world is from ours.
But we never really entered this future world. We get chunks of it, but there is no comprehension to it. I understood the mechanics of the world only in bits and pieces...even the feed was never fully explained. Nor did I ever fully understand the new slang language the characters used (I won't lie, that got really annoying sometimes); of course I deduced the meanings of most words, but most of the time they weren't used in any context that made that easy. The characters were put together in similarly uneven ways, changing the way they acted from chapter to chapter...only Violet was consistant. The characters felt more like symbols of "ideas" than people, which I understand is just the style some authors have.
I also felt that certain things lacked in emotion. The flatness of the first person narration meant that even highly emotional moments felt detached. And when emotion did bleed through from the characters to me, it was mostly sorrow and disgust.
It was a good dystopian novel, a clear and creatively done warning to the people about the dangers of technology and consumerism. It had a couple of those fantastic parts where the message hits you really hard, somewhere deep down. But it also felt like Anderson was trying so hard to deliver his message well, he lost the heart of the people and world of his novel. And sometimes those are the components that really make a good story. ]]>
" Julie sat with her body scrunched up against the trunk of a half-grown oak, her legs extended"
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Victoria
read and liked a piece of writing titled "Revolutio"
by Emily
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Ch. 3
“Creatures of Canis”, a dark, cordial voice sounded. “We are gathering in larger numbers, and increasingly so." ...read more »
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Ch. 3
“Creatures of Canis”, a dark, cordial voice sounded. “We are gathering in larger numbers, and increasingly so." ...read more »