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May 02, 2012 08:28PM
Personally,I'm glad that a female character is introduced. I also like the mysterious vein the book is going in. It will be good to find out all the connections that will take place among characters.
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I loved Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery, it is my favorite section so far :).
Will wrote: "I loved Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery, it is my favorite section so far :)."
Mine,too! Of course, there's much more to come...
Mine,too! Of course, there's much more to come...
When Luisa met Sixsmith I was hoping they'd form a heroic team. That wasn't to be. Still,I'm rooting for Luisa to uncover and expose truths. At least then she'll feel like a true reporter and more like her father's daughter.
If the greater good could be uplifted by Luisa's reporting...that may be asking too much.
If the greater good could be uplifted by Luisa's reporting...that may be asking too much.
I'm now into the 4th chapter. I did not expect things to go the way they have for Luisa! I'll not prejudge the outcome.
The ending for Luisa Rey shocked me too, lol :D. But I also think her story has the best cliff-hanger so far.
Will wrote: "The ending for Luisa Rey shocked me too, lol :D. But I also think her story has the best cliff-hanger so far."
Cliffhanger! That's funny,Will.
Cliffhanger! That's funny,Will.
I love when cliches comes to life!Luisa was one of my most favorite stories-I hated it when it jumped to the next one.
Luckily, I also liked that one.
Diana wrote: "Ellie wrote: "I love when cliches comes to life!Luisa was one of my most favorite stories-I hated it when it jumped to the next one.
Luckily, I also liked that one."
I truly liked the next chap..."
Sounds like you're giving away details about the fourth section in wrong thread. :)
I just finished the third section and liked it the best of the first three. Interestingly I found there was too much going on in this chapter for all those details to be simply left behind. For instance, there seemed to be a couple highlighted points about Javier but overall, he was insignificant to the chapter. Unless these details are what made Luisa such a compelling character.
I also liked that further details about Frobisher were revealed. The part with the record store gave some interesting details that also seemed too important to not be relevant later.
Looking forward to the fourth chapter.
Chris wrote: "Diana wrote: "Ellie wrote: "I love when cliches comes to life!
Luisa was one of my most favorite stories-I hated it when it jumped to the next one.
Luckily, I also liked that one."
@Chris,
My apologies. I should just make individual threads from now on. I must confess to being a bit fatigued sometimes while keeping up with our discussions. That's just life for me lately.
Luisa was one of my most favorite stories-I hated it when it jumped to the next one.
Luckily, I also liked that one."
@Chris,
My apologies. I should just make individual threads from now on. I must confess to being a bit fatigued sometimes while keeping up with our discussions. That's just life for me lately.
I agree with Chris,some details are too juicy not to have meaning!
@Diana - No worries, Diana! I was just teasing. :)
Call me crazy, but I preferred the first two chapters over the third. I thought Forbisher and Dr. Goose were both atypical characters that don't usually get the attention of a classic hero but are far too interesting not too. Luisa's story struck me as being a bit more "Hollywood", which has less novelty to me.
There'll be an interesting comment to that effect in the next section. Can't slip one by Mitchell.
I just finished the First Louisa Rey Mystery. I have to say I really enjoy the changing narratives, it is quite an interesting technique I think, as well as quite different, not something of which I have seen in other books before, at least not quite like the way it is done here. At first I found the Letters From Zedelghem a bit difficult to read, but after a while I became more accustomed to them. There were elements of it which reminded me of some of John Fowles writing. I was quite surprised when Robert found the diary of Adam Ewing.
Also it was interesting getting to see a bit more who the mysterious Sixsmith character that Robert was writing to was.
I am quite curious to see just how all these different stories might end up coming together, if in fact they ever really do. There are some interesting little connections between the different stories.
Silver wrote: "At first I found the Letters From Zedelghem a bit difficult to read ..."I found the letters much easier to read than slogging my way through Adam Ewing's journal. I was so happy to be able to follow Robert's train of thought. Adam Ewing confused me.
KJ wrote: "Silver wrote: "At first I found the Letters From Zedelghem a bit difficult to read ..."I found the letters much easier to read than slogging my way through Adam Ewing's journal. I was so happy to..."
I enjoyed the journals, though at first I was mostly confused by not being exactly sure what was going on, or just where and when it was taking place, but as I kept reading that became more clarified. But the letters were written in a way that at first I found to come off as awkward, and took some getting used to. It seemed there were points in which he did not use complete sentences which made it more difficult to follow.
Kevin wrote: "Call me crazy, but I preferred the first two chapters over the third. I thought Forbisher and Dr. Goose were both atypical characters that don't usually get the attention of a classic hero but are ..."Not crazy at all, chapter three has me feeling extremely let down. I thought chapter one was exciting and original. Just the crazy scheme of Harry to sell cannibal teeth for dentures, in order to humiliate his nemesis by publicly revealing that she has cannibal teeth in her mouth, was excitingly original, absurd, and creative. The pathos of Ewing's misplaced idealism in a barbaric world was also exciting, as was the author's playful use of language. Chapter two was good-ish, but I started to feel some doubts and uncertainty. Then chapter three came and felt very Hollywood, and pretty much the kind of book I was hoping to avoid. Also, I don't believe that this high-integrity atomic physicist Sixsmith could ever think of psychopathic Frobisher as the one and only love of his life. During the second chapter, I had to wonder what kind of character Sixsmith could be, and could only imagine a highly depraved nobleman or a debased and pathetic sucker... but not this Sixsmith.
Well, I'll carry on, and see where it leads. For a cliche thriller about evil corporate baddies and hit men in a public health cover up, the story does manage to be marginally suspenseful. But I'm afraid this book is going to turn out an overall massive disappointment relative to my hopes and expectations at the start.
