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Bezig met laden... Neuropath (2008)door Scott Bakker
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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. While it's not the best written book, Neuropath will definitely get you thinking about some philosophical questions. How much of what we do and feel is by choice? Is there even such a thing as free will and choice? Or are we slaves of tiny neurons firing in our brains? ( ) ¿Qué pasaría si descubrieras que no eres dueño de tus emociones, que el amor y el odio son tan sólo reacciones químicas de tu cerebro que alguien puede manipular? ¿Y si en realidad no fueras la persona que crees ser? La vida de Tom Bible es un fracaso: un matrimonio roto, una exmujer resentida, unos hijos a los que intenta proteger de un mundo cada vez más caótico y un trabajo como profesor universitario que no le llena. Pero su vida cambia cuando una noche llama a su puerta su antiguo amigo Neil Cassidy y le confiesa que ha pasado los últimos años trabajando para la NSA en la división de neuromanipulación. Al día siguiente el FBI se presenta en su despacho y le pide que colabore en la búsqueda del quiropráctico, un despiadado psichokiller que mutila y asesina a sus víctimas utilizando técnicas de manipulación mental. These days it seems there's many books called thrillers but not too many are actually thrilling - this is one of the few that is actually so. I started reading this earlier today, and got so swept up in the story I couldn't put it down and had to see it through to the end. It's everything I'd like in a thriller - exciting, an air of mystery, not an obvious path through to the ending, villains who aren't obviously villains, and goodies who aren't all they appear. I'd very much recommend picking this up if you enjoy a good thriller / law enforcement / serial killer story, it's good! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Tom's life is not what it once was. His marriage to the beautiful Nora is on the rocks and he now sees his two young children only on her say so. His best friend - and best man - Neil has moved away to California to teach neurology and he barely sees him. He has one successful book - on human psychology - but he now wiles away the time trying to teach bored grad students things that they are often not equipped to understand. But that all changes when Neil comes back into his life. For it seems that his best friend was no teacher - he was working for the US government, cracking the minds of suspected terrorists. But now it is Neil himself that has cracked and gone AWOL - what's more he has left behind evidence that he has been employing his unique skills on civilians - obsessed with the idea that he can control the human brain. Thus begins a terrifying sequence of events as Neil starts to kidnap and mutilate people with a connection to Tom. He damages their brains selectively and then releases them - often leaving them mad. But it is only when he gets near his ultimate target does he reveal the full horror of his plan... Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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