Jed Mercurio

Un adúltero americano
Jed Mercurio
Publicado: 2009 | 334 páginas
Ciencias sociales

Esta novela disecciona desde la primera línea las estrategias, los objetivos y la psicología de un mujeriego compulsivo. Y no estamos hablando de un hombre común y corriente. El sujeto de esta novela de escasa ficción y espléndidos hallazgos es John Fitzgerald Kennedy, uno de los más atractivos, míticos y mitologizados presidentes de los Estados Unidos. Jed Mercurio –que además de escritor es médico– se inspira en la escabrosa vida sexual de Kennedy, y también en su complicado historial clínico, y la principal e inteligente premisa de esta provocativa novela es que el deseo que impulsaba al presidente de cama en cama y sus enfermedades eran el fundamento de su personalidad política. Una novela de un humor y un ingenio a veces bastante negro, Un adúltero americano es el intenso, divertido, perturbador retrato de un estadista y de una época, y Mercurio presenta a JFK como un hombre de los tiempos que le tocó vivir, a la vez fuerte y frágil, con oscuros impulsos y deseos privados, y a la vez de gran talento y visión política.… (meer)

Very interesting book about the enhanced law enforcer returning from long voyage to be decommissioned.

And when I say decommissioned I mean it decommissioned like an old combat tank. Because you see enhanced law enforcer are not unlike UN Envoys from Takeshi Kovacs' universe - heavily augmented and deadly. So deadly that even their central command is ready to blow them up the moment bad news start coming up because int he past enforcer going crazy caused such mayhem it took substantial resources to bring them down.

And then things go bad - space station in orbit of Titan gets blasted out of space and sole survivor is our hero. Being absent for so long he is not aware of energy conflicts going on and discovery of Titan's fuel and numerous companies fighting over it. Truth be told he does not require all of that information because he is fast learner and once crime is committed he is on track. And no-one who wants to live can stop him from solving the crime.

It is an interesting book with interesting space based cyberpunk story. You wont find any external augmentations, they are all subtle beneath the skin. Events take time and book 1 abruptly stops in the middle of it. If there is one thing that I did not like then it is this. I wish more story was fleshed out - unfortunately this way we are not even one fifth into the story. Hopefully new volumes will be coming soon.

Art is OK, very reminiscent of Mike Mignola's style, wide panels and play with color and shade. To be honest I like to have more elements in the panels (Mignola's style is lots-of-empty-space for me) but it is OK. It is just that story wise I find this book lacking.

All in all recommended to all fans of SF, cyberpunk and old frontier justice movies. But you might want to keep waiting until additional volumes are released (hopefully soon).… (meer)

In the same league of hoax making with deleterious consequences as writing about North Korean footballers failing to win in the World Cup of 1966 in England and being sentenced to death. You may hate or fear 'Reds', but don't think they fools or cannibals. The real footballers actually continued their careers at home, while no one in the USSR would be mad enough to land such a prolific ace in GULAG around the Polar circle. At maximum he will be made a flight instructor to pass his superior skills to cadets. But in real life he'll be lauded in lifetime, kolhozs and schools will be named after him upon his death. The USSR was strong enough to keep its best in service, and definitely wouldn't be afraid of a scandal, grounds for which are hard to prove anyway.… (meer)

Un adúltero americano describe y disecciona desde la primera línea, con una prosa hipnótica, las estrategias, los objetivos y la psicología de un mujeriego compulsivo. Como todo donjuán, debe ser cuidadoso en la elección de sus amantes y calcular muy bien el proceso de seducción. También tiene que moverse con pies de plomo y ser muy hábil para ocultar su doble, o múltiple, vida ante su esposa, sus rivales políticos y la opinión pública. No estamos hablando de un hombre común y corriente. El sujeto de esta investigación, de esta novela de escasa ficción y espléndidos hallazgos, es John Fitzgerald Kennedy, uno de los más atractivos, míticos y mitificados presidentes de los Estados Unidos.… (meer)