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فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2016
نویسنده
Piter Marekناشر
Recorded Books, Inc.شابک
9781501903434
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- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
January 25, 2016
In Toutonghi’s debut novel, “joins” are entities comprising pooled consciousnesses shared by any number of individuals, or “drives.” The social and interpersonal ramifications of this imaginative form of personhood are duly explored in the first part of this novel, but the going is not easy. The attempts to explain an essentially mysterious process can be tedious, and drives with names such as Chance 6 and Leap 2 are hard to keep track of. Also frustrating is the author’s penchant for eliding the obvious—such as when two drives of a single join are having sex, and Toutonghi ignores the fact that, basically, the join is having sex with itself. The latter half of the book, which focuses on disastrous climate changes on Earth and the chasm that exists between joins and “solos” (those whose consciousness isn’t connected), is much more compelling, presenting two radically differing visions of humanity’s future. Unfortunately, the most intriguing and thought-provoking issues are raised only at the conclusion, and even then, they’re given too-short shrift.
Narrator Piter Marek helps listeners keep track of multiple characters in a novel about a future in which people can join minds into a single unit, while still maintaining a measure of autonomy. If that sounds confusing, it is. Even Marek's steady performance cannot dispel the somewhat perplexing storyline, which starts out confusingly but becomes easier to follow as the audiobook goes on. The problem Marek faces is trying to give personalities to the multiple bodies and minds that are, in many ways, the same person. He manages to imbue the villain of the piece, who apparently just enjoys killing, with a smarmy personality, making him the kind of person you want to punch in the face. Or faces, in this case. M.S. � AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
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