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I like Warren Ellis' work --- it can be clever, dark, and funny --- and this is an interesting take on the "futurist" characters that he likes to write about. It's a bit short, but I generally enjoyed it. Why only 3 stars, then? Instead of fulfilling the reader's expectations as the characters readied for a conflict, the narrative takes a detour and picks up ten days later. Did it ultimately make sense? Sure. Did it fit the character? I suppose. My problem is that the book ends almost immediatel
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An excellent medium-length read, which Ellis freely acknowledges is really a novella called a novel for marketing purposes. The setting is Normal Head, a sanitarium/rest home in the Oregon forests for futurists who have seen too much--and of course things are anything but normal. Adam Dearden arrives in a state of extreme psychological stress, nearly catatonic. He quickly returns to himself, only to come face to face with the fears that sent him there in the first place. Solving a kind of locked
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Ellis does fun things. But for some reason this felt like a comic that became a book because it had too much conversation. Still enjoyed the hell out of it, so I'm not sure if that's a failure or not, but I could almost see the panels.
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all the great characters and deep thought about how things work you'd expect from Warren Ellis. highly recommended. reminded me a little of William Gibson's near future stuff.
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What a pleasingly weird book.
Dec 13, 2016
Scott
marked it as to-read
Aug 01, 2017
Thibault Lemaitre
marked it as to-read
Oct 28, 2017
Julien L
marked it as to-read
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Bobby
marked it as to-read
