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I agree with you ,Jolie. I was all set to recommend this to my teachers' book club but, as you said, there were things that just didn't ring true to me:1. There have ALWAYS been those gifted and those normal and both have always co-existed. Just because one is Over-The-Top brilliant in one area does not necessarily make that person into a terrorist who must be terminated? Our world has good guys and bad guys, terrorists and peacemakers, and it doesn't depend on one's "Brilliance" ??
2. Like your #2, Jolie: IF Nick Cooper's extraordinary talent was "supposed" to be SO tuned to reading patterns to make determinations about people, HOW was he deceived, all those years, by his boss, the BIG boss, Drew Peters, the good/bad guy?
3. The final confrontation between the two forces seemed preposterous to me = 3 people (2 abnorms/1 normal) taking down, in quick succession, an entire, huge , elite, trained to kill department, an entire city police force, a helicopter unit, etc. etc. Wow! It was just too easy ??
I too liked the book and I'm most curious to know what will develop w/ John Smith, the good guy/made bad guy by the real bad guy.
Do you know WHEN Sakey's 2nd book will be coming out?
Those are all good points...I enjoyed the book too but one scene really irked me. With all the "new tech" surveillance on the look out for him, Cooper calls DAR (or Drew Peters, I can't remember which) on a PAY PHONE from a bar, and then stays in the bar to meet with his former partner after making the call. Don't you think they could have easily traced the call and brought all the DAR resources to bear down on him? Anyway, for some reason that little detail really annoyed me!
Would someone comment: Is A BETTER WORLD as good, maybe even better, than BRILLIANCE ??
Would a prodigy investor destroy the stock market? When I heard that, I kinda cringed because he didn't explain how. It seems like if someone is making good investments and the right companies are getting lots of capital that they are effective at using, that their shares are getting more valuable. The brilliant that is good at stocks is not a cheater or insider trader, he is a good investor
It's funny that pay phones still exist in the US in the world of BRILLIANCE.
A prodigy investor could flash trade and do damage to the stock market, but only if he had a dark pool of investors working with him or if he could calculate billions of trades himself.
Kristin wrote: "It's funny that pay phones still exist in the US in the world of BRILLIANCE."It's interesting when travelling by air to see how so many airports kept the nice stainless steel pay phone kiosks, and adapted them to become charging stations for personal electronic devices.
OT: Yes, I noticed that too. When traveling in Asia, I notice that even though cell/smart/handphones are ubiquitous, there are several payphones. I have a friend who produced a movie (DO IT OR DIE) in California, a story set in 1979. The crew had to go to great lengths to get old (nonworking) payphones because they were part of the plot (it was based on true events.)Does the world of BRILLIANCE have payphones for some thematic reason (abnorms don't want to be tracked, even though the police could trace the call as Elise pointed out) or is it just a throwaway detail?
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1. Bryan Vasquez. The meetup turns out to be a trap (?) and he's killed. But John Smith isn't the type to kill people helping him. Was he killed by Drew Peters? Bryan is discussed a little in the aftermath of the explosion, and then that's about it. The who and why is never explained.
2. Erik Epstein. If he can read data and "see the truth" and extrapolating data to make predictions of the future, then why didn't he see the bombing in the restaurant was fake and didn't add up? Why doesn't he see the media is making John Smith something he isn't (entirely), and why does he want him killed? (Unless it turns out he's part of the conspiracy?)
3. The scene on the balcony. How did John know the exact moment to step out? Was Shannon watching Nick so she could give the cue? If so, how did she manage to follow him and stay unseen for so long and in such a remote area?