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In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research…
an English/Lit professor friend interviewed some journalists who covered the story his book The Nickel Boys is based on...he sent me the link Tuesday to view it live, but i was sick and forgot
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19718 Location: Cumberland, RI
Simple Torture wrote:
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In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research…
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19718 Location: Cumberland, RI
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In Mexican poet Boullosa's (Texas) second novel, a ghost recounts the hauntings of her childhood in order to conquer fear. When the narrator is a young girl, one of her classmates invites her into the school's hen coop, where the girls begin to hear strange footsteps approaching. These footsteps follow the narrator after the classmate's sudden death and are accompanied by other odd situations: her scissors mysteriously slaughter a turtle, a tree moves away from her to deny her shade, and ink marks on a jacket turns into live spiders. All the while, the narrator has to grapple with the fact that she is growing up in a terrifying world with a family who cannot understand her, providing an altogether fresh take on the coming-of-age story.
Anyone have a Kindle Oasis? Looking for opinions...
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Jeez I thought Blindsight was hard to follow. Had to read this one twice to have any idea what I read (I also reread Blindsight and picked up on a lot of things I missed). THere is an appendix in the back that explains some of the concepts he is riffing off of that would have been useful to read first.
It delves into rationality vs. intuition in relation to their usefulness for science, among other things, but not to the deep level that Blindsight delved into consciousness. Still, I liked it a lot. It's a complicated hard sci-fi book, but I think some major plot points were rushed over and barely explained at all, so it's not just hard to follow because of the complexity. The various post-human factions here are nearly too powerful to relate to, but I thought it worked.
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