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Holy Fire
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Man, I hate ratings sometimes.
The narrative drive in this book is weak; it's basically a picaresque of this posthuman society. The characterization is thin, or at least the characters often came across as inscrutable to me. So as a novel it's kind of a fail. One star.
But the interplay of concerns over the meaning of art and humanity is fascinating. Also, there is at least one mind-blowing idea every few pages. I constantly re-checked the pub date because this is so contemporary; it feels hardly dated at all despite being almost 20 years old. In fact, I suspect it's easier to understand now than it was on first publication.
The society of the gerontocrats seems imminently plausible, too. Whether it is a future generation or merely a metaphor for the aging Boomers will only be answered in time.
So for sensawunda, four stars.
The narrative drive in this book is weak; it's basically a picaresque of this posthuman society. The characterization is thin, or at least the characters often came across as inscrutable to me. So as a novel it's kind of a fail. One star.
But the interplay of concerns over the meaning of art and humanity is fascinating. Also, there is at least one mind-blowing idea every few pages. I constantly re-checked the pub date because this is so contemporary; it feels hardly dated at all despite being almost 20 years old. In fact, I suspect it's easier to understand now than it was on first publication.
The society of the gerontocrats seems imminently plausible, too. Whether it is a future generation or merely a metaphor for the aging Boomers will only be answered in time.
So for sensawunda, four stars.
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July 6, 2015
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July 6, 2015
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July 17, 2015
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July 17, 2015
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