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Best to trust no one, even if they seem friendly. A smiling girl one day is a girl with a stone bashing in the brains of a baby the next. This is the only truth. One can think there are such things as loyalty and trust and kindness but they are devil cats. In the end they are only smoke and cannot be grasped.
I'm not even sure how I feel about this book. It was good, but I didn't like it. I suppose that averages out to 3 stars. I don't think any part of my review is a spoiler, but if you are ...more
An amazing apocalyptic vision: AgriGen and other GMO corps have taken over the world. Loved the Anderson and Emiko characters. Loved the chesires and megodonts and all the other details that are just not all that far outside the realm of possibility...
While I admired this book's clever and chilling premise, ultimately I didn't find the emotional toehold I'd hoped for in Bacigalupi's large array of characters. Still, he's to be commended for such an ambitious undertaking. There's a Dickensian sweep to his novel that's matched by its implacable sense of inevitability as the characters are swept up in tides of change.
Jonathan Davis' slow-paced reading brought out nuances of character but may have been more leisurely than some listeners would enj ...more
Jonathan Davis' slow-paced reading brought out nuances of character but may have been more leisurely than some listeners would enj ...more
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I really really wanted to enjoy this book. The premise was great and it was promising at the start but it seemed to go on and on and on. Took me forever to finish because I just couldn't stay interested.
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Aug 21, 2010
Ching-In
marked it as to-read
Oct 06, 2010
Tracyene
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Jan 10, 2011
Joerg
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Shelves:
fiction-america,
sf
Dec 23, 2011
Lindsay
marked it as to-read
Sep 28, 2012
Seulky
marked it as to-read
Dec 28, 2013
Vesra (When She Reads)
marked it as to-read
Shelves:
c-brown,
e-book,
w,
author-b,
fiction,
science-fiction-fantasy,
pc-300-399,
tbr-2010,
post-apocalyptic,
dystopia
Mar 17, 2014
Harvey
marked it as to-read
Jun 15, 2014
Soelo
marked it as to-read
Dec 28, 2016
Tania
marked it as to-read
Jun 03, 2018
Ann
marked it as to-read
Sep 20, 2018
Jocelyn
marked it as to-read
Sep 18, 2020
Shadi
marked it as dnf-abandoned
Mar 31, 2021
Anya
marked it as to-read
