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Carregando... The Culled (2006)de Simon Spurrier
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Post world wipe, crazy cults, and Mad Max invincibles? So awesome. ( ) wieder einmal zeitverschwendung - ich freue mich über jedes literarische werk des genres spec fiction. das hier ist auf dem gleichen niveau wie geschichtren auf der kellogs müsli packung. seichte unterhaltung in einer pseudo macho sprache ohne ideen oder auch nur den versuch, charaktere zu zeichen. jedes buch bekommt die chance, mich in 50 Seiten zu überzeugen. The Culled hat mich bereits nach 10 Seiten scheitern lassen. "the unsettling bong bongs of warning instruments" und andere sprachliche höhenflüge überzeugen nicht. der autor schreibt üblicherweise comics, ein genre, das ich liebe. er sollte dabei bleiben [Yeah, spoilers. Boilerplate, polite version: I promise I don't "spoil" anything about this book that would have bothered me had I known about it in advance of reading this book. That said, I cannot think of anything I have read in my life that would have been spoiled had I known the plot-advancing facts. And this is not, I promise, a brief Cliffs Notes–style detailed summary of the story. Perhaps the only real way to "spoil" a book is to detail any serious flaws in logic, to the extent that you then can't get them out of your head as you read the book. I can't promise that I don't to that -- but neither can anyone else.] I wanted to read The Serpent Uncoiled, a more recent book by Spurrier, but it had such glowing reviews I decided, rather than going in cold, having never read anything by him previously, to first get a sense of his writing from something else he had written. This novel is the first book in a "shared universe" series of novels, called the Afterblight Chronicles, each book written by a different author but taking place in the same overarching story. The "blight" of the series' title is a virus that ravaged the planet, killing (just about) everyone who doesn't have a particular blood type. It's post-apocalyptic mayhem, starring a former mercenary with a remarkable ability to be at the wrong place at the right time and to survive the ever-escalating body count. True to its pulp aspirations, it reads only slightly less quickly than it appears to have been written. It's more told than written, uttered as a full-steam streaming monologue by the main character, with occasional italicized asides from other characters. I don't know that I will read another book in this series, but I might try another of the "shared universe" books. And I'm looking forward to The Serpent Uncoiled. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Fast-paced Post-Apocalyptic Action Thriller. The world has been devastated by an epidemic. Although there are pockets of an attempted continuation of civilisation, the truth is that the world has gone to hell in a handcart. The reason for this is a disease that has wiped out most of the world's population. It kills almost all those who are not of the blood group 'O neg'. Those people who survive are untouched. Everyone else dies. Infrastructures have collapsed. Mobs run rampant. The only kind of law that exists is that imposed by the people with the biggest guns. In this devastated and chaotic world who can bring hope and order? The Blight arose from nowhere. It swept across the bickering nations like the End of Times. As the numbers thinned and societies crumbled, the survivors picked their way between silent streets and looked out on the squalid new order. Hotheaded religion and territorial savagery rule the cities now. Somewhere, amidst the chaos, a damaged man receives a signal, and with it the tiniest flicker of hope. This is the chance to rediscover the humanity he lost, long ago, in the blood and filth and horror of the Cull. He mustcross the Atlantic, defeat warrior gangs in New York and seek out the location of his missing love. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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