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Bezig met laden... Upgrade (2022)door Blake Crouch
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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. Great read, keeps you enthralled, science fiction but believable, I loved it ( ) A book club pick š After two books, I knew what I was getting into with Crouch ā a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that is sure to entertain, in one way or another. I really liked Recursion; I liked Dark Matter a lot less; this one falls somewhere in between. Itās a near future setting, and the climate change is slowly wrecking everything. Also, scientists have been very naughty with genetic engineering, and now this kind of thing is banned, banned, banned. (Me: stupid, stupid, stupid.) There is a Gene Protection Agency in the US, hunting rogue scientists and other disobedient citizens who want to do gene therapy, create new life forms etc. Logan is a GPA agent ā one day, he walks into a trap and gets infected with an influenza virus. The virus is carrying stuff that is going to alter Loganās genome in exciting ways. Donāt you just hate it when this happens? Logan starts getting smarter, stronger, etc. There is a conspiracy, of course. We get fugitives on the run, secrets revealed, cat-and-mouse games, lots of action. Stuff keeps happening! The books asks some interesting questions. What does humanity deserve? Or doesnāt deserve? What price would you pay to āsave everyoneā? āBeing smart doesnāt make people infallible. It just makes them more dangerous.ā But we donāt go very deeply into these themes. So I think I would have preferred less philosophy and more sci-fi thriller candy. The body count is high, people die in gruesome ways. Itās all very ātechnicalā, like a video game. It bothered me. Also, this is the third book by Crouch featuring a man forcibly separated from his family/loved ones. This is getting oldā¦ By the end of the book, the plot moves too fast to make sense at times. Maybe Logan had gotten so smart that I couldnāt keep up? I liked the ending, but I am not sure how I feel about it. This is not my usual genre but I found it an exciting and somewhat frightening look into the futuristic advances in science and technology. Logan Ramsay is an agents who work for GPA, Gene Protection Agency. He becomes involved in an effort to amend the sins of his mother, Miriam Ramsay, a scientist involved with a genetic modification project. He feels compelled to correct his family's horrific legacy which explores the limits of humanity. He wants to protect his wife, Beth and daughter, Ava. While leading a raid on a suspected gene laboratory Logan is fortunate to survive an explosion. Or is he? Just as he begins to feel better he realizes that he is almost feeling "too good" in that his thinking is clearer and sharper than it was before the accident. Logan eventually realizes that he has been taken to a lab as a subject for a gene altering project on humans. Although his mother died, he can't help but think that he is being used to advance his mother's trials on altering human genomes. It is a thought provoking journey about the capabilities that might exist and the questionable moral responsibility attached. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Fiction.
Science Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā?¢ ā??If Michael Crichton had written a superhero novel, it would look a lot like Upgrade.ā?ā??The New York Times Book Review ā??You donā??t so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin.ā?ā??DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series ā??Mysterious, fascinating, and deeply movingā??exploring the very nature of what it means to be human.ā?ā??ALEX MICHAELIDES, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The Maiden ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, She Reads The mind-blowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursionā??currently in development as a motion picture at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners ā??You are the next step in human evolution.ā? At first, Logan Ramsay isnā??t sure if anythingā??s different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep. But before long, he canā??t deny it: Somethingā??s happening to his brain. To his body. Heā??s starting to see the world, and those around himā??even those he loves mostā??in whole new ways. The truth is, Loganā??s genome has been hacked. And thereā??s a reason heā??s been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy. Worse still, whatā??s happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at largeā??at a terrifying cost. Because of his new abilities, Loganā??s the one person in the world capable of stopping whatā??s been set in motion. But to have a chance at winning this war, heā??ll have to become something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. And even as heā??s fighting, he canā??t help wondering: what if humanityā??s only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution? Intimate in scale yet epic in scope, Upgrade is an intricately plotted, lightning-fast tale that charts one manā??s thrilling Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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