Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.
Sto caricando le informazioni... The bone housedi Luanne Armstrong
Nessuno Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Premi e riconoscimenti
British Columbia has changed. Globally, the weather has become extreme and unpredictable. Giant corporations rule. They are the beneficiaries of environmental laws imposed too late to help the world, but which can be used to control and impoverish the remaining population. A young woman, Lia, escapes a Vancouver that has deteriorated into a landscape of gated communities, violent gangs, squalid squats, and sinister welfare agencies. She returns to her childhood home in the Kootenays and a commune where Magnus and his mother Ama and their eccentric neighbour, Matt, are determined not only to fight for their land but to understand the events that have shaped their lives. The Bone House, a new novel by Luanne Armstrong, is a riveting tale of a world in which people have become endangered species. The memorable character and their resolve and hope will live on in the reader's mind long after the end of The Bone House. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
Discussioni correntiNessuno
Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |
I just finished this book. It was very amusing to read a dystopia set in Vancouver and rural BC. The author seems to be just as paranoid about corporate takeover as I am LOL
I found the writing wanting but the story itself was interesting enough to keep me reading.
The whole trio of Matt, Lia and Star seemed unrealistic to me and pointless because it never amounted to anything in the story, it was anti-climactic.
I didn't think the sex scenes had to be spelled out in quite that detail as I prefer something to be left to the imagination. It's also just laughable that Matt would have become so attached to a girl who whipped through his life so fast.
I don't know what all the visions of light and colours meant that Matt was seeing nor how meeting Star could have had such a profound impact on his life. Nor how the supposed premonitions he thought he was having fit into the story. They amounted to nothing by the end of the story.
Ama seemed realistic enough except when she suddenly became a weak person and didn't know what to do. A strong women does not fold that easily, I didn't buy it at all.
The whole corporate takeover and devastation was interesting because there really was nothing in the story that couldn't actually happen. Everything mentioned are things that we see coming now. I know the author is a fan of Maude Barlow and the Council of Canadians because the entire scenario was based on exactly the things that the Council are now fighting. I had to laugh out loud when in the last few pages the author mentions the future and the Barlow laws! LOL This would be Maude Barlow obviously, I had to chuckle.
While I think that a lot of this was possible and even likely if we don't stop corporations now some of it was unrealistic such as the drastic climate change. There is a slow climate change but the corporations would take over long before we would see any climate change to this degree. I had to laugh when the author blamed the corporate takeover of the world on International Free Trade agreements. This IS realistic! LOL
The fight to save the commune was ridiculous because if a scenario like this ever did occur the corporations would just quietly use chemical warfare on everyone and then move in. I also think it was unrealistic that the people in the other community left their community to come and fight with the commune in the forest over the winter, If it really happened like that the corporations would have seized the former when it was left unprotected.
Overall it was fun to read as some of it has very real possiblities in our future.