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Bezig met laden... The Mirage (2012)door Matt Ruff
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I tried but just couldn't get through this book. I got as far as page 180 and couldn't go on. I found it pretty bad. I found the premise interesting and thought it would make a great What If type story. But I simply didn't care at all about the characters and the story really wasn't a story at all. I couldn't see how any of what the author was writing about had anything at all to do with the premise of the book. I really wanted to like this, but just didn't find it at all engaging.
If you amalgamated the methodical, punctilious, world-building skills of Ian McDonald with the reality-distortion powers of Philip K. Dick and then folded in the satirical, take-no-prisoners savagery of Norman Spinrad, you might very well be able to produce a book approximating Matt Ruff's The Mirage [. . .] a book that will captivate upon an initial surface reading and trouble your certainties long after. While it’s easy to appreciate The Mirage as furious entertainment, it lacks the substantive kick of speculative fiction that dares to offer a clear message. [F]or all the enthusiasm Ruff brings to his efforts, the illusion never feels completely real. The writing is good, but the characters are hard to care about and the plot doesn’t feel properly resolved. Not bad, but it won’t give you the willies. Prijzen
In the summer of 2009, Arab Homeland Security agent Mustafa al Baghdadi is plunged into a conspiracy involving Suddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, and the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee when a captured suicide bomber claims that the world in which they live is a mirage. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This book has a great premise and some thorough world-building, but ultimately falls flat and probably won't be of any interest to anyone who wasn't alive and following the news in 2001 (if the names Lee Atwater, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and David Koresh don't mean anything to you, the satire will be lost on you). It seems like Ruff wasn't entirely sure how to end the book, so the end has a lot of deus ex machina stuff that stretches the level of suspension of disbelief that he has established earlier in the book.
Some 9/11 literature is going to stand the test of time, but I don't think this one will. ( )