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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Devil's Alphabetdi Daryl Gregory
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Pax, the preacher’s son, returns from the town he fled many years ago when one of his best childhood friends dies—apparently by suicide. Most of the people in the town were struck by a mysterious malady that converted them into argos (giant, mantislike beings), betas (red-skinned, hairless, and asexually reproducing), and charlies (short, extremely fat, and—in the case of mature males—producing a substance with narcotic effects, at least on other charlies). This last part incorporates a short story of Gregory’s, but changes it as well. There’s a lot of body horror, especially regarding the way that the charlie men produce the “vintage.” Pax is not a hero; he’s often cowardly, something of a drug addict, and in the end his story is about making compromises—including with corruption and violence—in order to preserve the possibility of a different though not necessarily better world. Ch-ch-changes by Kel Munger Daryl Gregory’s second book is every bit as intense, well-written and thought-provoking as his first, which means we must all wait patiently for more. It’s a rare thing to run across a writer of what Margaret Atwood calls “speculative fiction” who combines this level of intelligence with a matching dose of empathy. The Devil’s Alphabet involves a small Appalachian town that was visited with a strange plague. It altered the genetic makeup of most of its residents—but not in all the same ways. In fact, argos, betas and charlies are as different from each other as they are from unchanged humans. And now it’s happening again, in a country half a world away. We see the story unfold through the eyes of Pax Martin, who remained unchanged (physically, at least) by the disease. But he’s got another mystery to solve: Who killed his first love, a beta woman? This novel is worth staying up late to finish. Reviewed for Sacramento News & Review: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/ch-ch-changes/content?oid=1335011 The fact that I couldn't finish this before it had to go back to the library tells me its not worth my time. I wanted to like it, but...couldn't. It wasn't horrible, or anything, just slow, with rather cardboard characters, and too much that was probably meant to be mysterious and ominous, but was really kind of tedious. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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From Daryl Gregory, whose Pandemonium was one of the most exciting debut novels in memory, comes an astonishing work of soaring imaginative power that breaks new ground in contemporary fantasy. Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease–dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS)–vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies. Paxton Abel Martin was fourteen when TDS struck, killing his mother, transforming his preacher father into a charlie, and changing one of his best friends, Jo Lynn, into a beta. But Pax was one of the few who didn’t change. He remained as normal as ever. At least on the outside. Having fled shortly after the pandemic, Pax now returns to Switchcreek fifteen years later, following the suicide of Jo Lynn. What he finds is a town seething with secrets, among which murder may well be numbered. But there are even darker–and far weirder–mysteries hiding below the surface that will threaten not only Pax’s future but the future of the whole human race. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This isn't the story of what happened in Switchcreek or why, although those questions are posed. Rather, it's the story of coping with such profound changes, how outsiders react to people who suddenly don't look human, how far people will go to live normal lives when normal doesn't mean what it once did, and the age-old question of what it means to be human. It's also the story of Pax trying to find his place in a world when he hasn't felt comfortable in his own skin since everything changed.
And it's the sort of book that makes me want a sequel. I want to spend more time with Pax and the people of Switchcreek. Gregory made me care about all of them. ( )