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Steven Hall (1) (1975–)

Autor(a) de The Raw Shark Texts

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5+ Works 2,803 Membros 124 Reviews

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Obras de Steven Hall

The Raw Shark Texts (2007) 2,640 cópias
Maxwell's Demon (2020) 103 cópias
Forty-Five (2008) — Contribuinte — 32 cópias
A Death in the Family (2010) — Autor — 27 cópias

Associated Works

The Unwritten Vol. 03: Dead Man's Knock (2011) — Introdução, algumas edições502 cópias
Granta 109: Work (2009) — Contribuinte — 116 cópias
Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical (2009) — Introdução — 95 cópias
Dead Letters (2016) — Contribuinte — 52 cópias
Cinema Futura (2010) — Contribuinte — 19 cópias
New Writing 13 (2005) — Contribuinte — 17 cópias

Etiquetado

2007 (12) 2008 (11) 21st century (14) Ace (10) amnesia (62) audio (11) audio drama (10) Big Finish (18) British (24) CD (10) Doctor Who (28) ebook (10) England (16) English (16) experimental (23) fantasy (69) fiction (331) Hex (10) Jaws (11) language (12) literary fiction (12) literature (20) magical realism (16) memory (32) memory loss (11) metafiction (41) mystery (52) novel (57) own (12) postmodern (40) read (44) science fiction (76) sf (20) sharks (31) signed (18) surreal (12) suspense (13) thriller (42) to-read (173) unread (26)

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Data de nascimento
1975
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK

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YA book with secret chapters online em Name that Book (Junho 2016)

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This is my second read of this book. I want to love it, and for a long way through, I do. Then it all falls apart in the third act. I’ll likely read it again in a few years, after the specifics fade from my memories.
 
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dogboi | outras 116 resenhas | Sep 16, 2023 |
The back cover and inside jacket of this novel are both filled with glowing reviews. One of them read "The most original reading experience of the year...A novel that genuinely isn't like anything you have ever read before." Consequently, I opened this book with high expectations which unfortunately weren't met. As far as the originality goes, I'd have to say, that simply isn't the case. The book in many ways, reminded me of the work of Jasper Fjorde or Haruki Murakami. And the end was right out of Jaws. That being said, it was an interesting and enjoyable read. Just not as good as I expected.… (mais)
 
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kevinkevbo | outras 116 resenhas | Jul 14, 2023 |
 
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markm2315 | outras 116 resenhas | Jul 1, 2023 |
I almost DNF’d this because I was very close to hating it and had decided to do myself the favor of stopping. But the next day curiosity got the best of me, so I picked Maxwell's Demon up again and forced myself to speed through the remaining 100 or so pages. Forced is a key word, and yes, I skimmed. So now that it's done, my final take is I can’t with this book.

For one, post-modern, meta-fiction, typographical trickery is not my thing. Like many others, I was reminded of House of Leaves, but this book is sprinkled with far less of the typographical word play than that book, for which I am grateful. I'd almost consider Hall’s usage a tolerable amount, except that some of it was so tiny that my middle-aged eyes determined he didn't want me to read those parts, and I didn't.

Second, the physics stuff was interesting to me as were the philosophical musings and the bible apocrypha, but the mysteries contained in the polaroid, Dracula's Castle, Imogen's whereabouts and other things frustrated me because I did not find them interesting enough to cast about lost in Hall's game.

Third, he takes too long to tell the story, dancing around it and dangling bits without enough forward progression. I got much more curious when Stanley arrives in Owthorne in search of Andrew Black, but this is also where things more aggressively start to fall apart.

Last, from that point on, there's an unfair amount of having to suspend your disbelief that ratchets up in the final acts, and in which everything is revealed to be first one thing, then another thing, and then yet another thing until you realize this thing was never going anywhere at all. I like a good twist, but it has to follow some sort of logic otherwise it's just another M. Night Shyamalan, and I'm not a fan of that.
… (mais)
½
 
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mpho3 | outras 3 resenhas | Sep 25, 2022 |

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Membros
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