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The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller. From its opening pages--when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head--novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping, lurching between moments of lucidity and days when he doesn't seem to be living his own life at all. The landscape around him is at once fractured and oddly familiar: a world dominated by a Machiavellian mayor known as "The Boss," and peopled by gawking celebrities, anguished policemen peddling First Responder cereal, and pink real estate divas hyping the spoils of tragedy. Remy himself has a new girlfriend he doesn't know, a son who pretends he's dead, and an unsettling new job chasing a trail of paper scraps for a shadowy intelligence agency known as the Department of Documentation. Whether that trail will lead Remy to an elusive terror cell--or send him circling back to himself--is only one of the questions posed by this provocative yet deeply human novel. From a novelist of astounding talent, The Zero is an extraordinary story of how our trials become our transgressions, of how we forgive ourselves and whether or not we should.… (mere)
Can't believe I finished this book. It was the worst book I've read in ages. About 9/11 aftermath from a policeman's point of view and the author claims to "make sense" of what happened and how we responded with a satire. To me it was an incoherent diatribe on how confused and inept the main character was. The style of writing was absolutely terrible. The author thinks that designing the character to have memory problems and lapses somehow enlightens the book. Instead it just makes it a nonsense story that is constantly interrupted and jumping around with no point. I did not see it as funny or at all a real attempt to make sense out of the tragedy. Sure we are a screwed up society in many ways and the government organizations are often inept and trying to one up each other and take credit for anything they can. But thats not news to me or at all interesting. ( )
I really did not like this book for the first hundred pages or so. But because Jess Walter is usually consistent, I stuck with it. And my lawd, the second half was SO satisfying. Great read. ( )
I don't think it's a flawless book but his characters are so engaging and his humor is so dry and rueful that it makes up for a few tiny improbables. It must be so challenging to write a coherent story from the point of view of a man whose life is so disjointed. I also like that he didn't give a tidy explanation for everything that happens in the novel. Especially important for a novel that hangs on 9/11. ( )
This one of Walter's odder books, but in a good way. The story opens with the main character (a police detective) dealing with the aftermath of a 9/11-type attack and shooting himself in the head. He survives, but has memory losses as he works on finding out who perpetrated the attack. The memory losses will just come at random and jump, leaving out important information, even to the reader. Its a little confusing to follow. Is he a split personality, is he making it all up, is there a shadow government agency behind the attacks? A very interesting, but challenging read (in this case Audio). Recommend. ( )
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Author's Note: This happened.
Could I, I thought, be the last coward on earth? How terrifying!...All alone with two million stark raving heroic madmen, armed to the eyeballs...
Celine, Journey to the End of the Night
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They burst into the sky, every bird in creation, angry and agitated, awakened by the same primary thought, erupting in a white feathered cloudburst, anxious and graceful, angling in ever-tightening circles toward the ground, drifting close enough to touch, and then close enough to see that it wasn't a flock of birds at all--it was paper.
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But he squeezed them as tight as he could, waiting for her to come.
The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller. From its opening pages--when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head--novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping, lurching between moments of lucidity and days when he doesn't seem to be living his own life at all. The landscape around him is at once fractured and oddly familiar: a world dominated by a Machiavellian mayor known as "The Boss," and peopled by gawking celebrities, anguished policemen peddling First Responder cereal, and pink real estate divas hyping the spoils of tragedy. Remy himself has a new girlfriend he doesn't know, a son who pretends he's dead, and an unsettling new job chasing a trail of paper scraps for a shadowy intelligence agency known as the Department of Documentation. Whether that trail will lead Remy to an elusive terror cell--or send him circling back to himself--is only one of the questions posed by this provocative yet deeply human novel. From a novelist of astounding talent, The Zero is an extraordinary story of how our trials become our transgressions, of how we forgive ourselves and whether or not we should.
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