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Indlæser... Zodiac (original 1988; udgave 1995)af Neal Stephenson (Forfatter)
Work InformationZodiac af Neal Stephenson (1988)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Probably just me on this one... Seemed well enough written, but just too wacky. solid off the wall cracks end up being too much to continue ( ) Ok, I'm now a died-in-the-wool (whatever that means) Stephenson enthusiast. According to Goodreads, there're 14 editions of this - so it must be popular. Lardy how I HATE liking popular things! Nonetheless, I like it. Yeah, yeah, Stephenson's sortof a cross between Pynchon & Robert Anton Wilson - I reckon w/ some Rudy Rucker tossed in. There's plenty of murder & mayhem in here to suck in yr average thrill-seeker but there's also enuf precocious exposing of ecoactivists being labelled 'terrrorists' by the omnipresent unscrupulous to earn this a high rating. The protaganist is yet-another classic superhero slob - a role model for public-good-minded psychopaths (like myself). Basically, I cd've hardly rooted for him more. Now it's time to get back to LIVING like these characters instead of just getting off on reading about them. Only the second Neal Stephenson novel, it does have a bit of the caped crusader, but still a ripping yarn with our protagonist fighting to take down big chemical companies in Boston polluting the bay. A mix of believable interaction and supporting characters with well researched chemical sciency background for the chlorine pollutants, but some real stretches in the biological stuff the bad guys create. Better than I had feared, recommended. Interesting story, fast paced. Eco-activism / terrorism - sometimes when systems fail, it really does take concerned citizens to break things open, the system doesn't always work. Lots of anti-corporate / greedy /irresponsible capitalist tropes. Those are sometimes deserved, but more often not, especially these days - big corporations do more training and take more caution about the slightest of spills than anyone (having worked for several). A small car repair shop is probably responsible for more improperly disposed waste than many multi-national industrial companies. Don't think the possibility of the story is super credible otherwise, there are some issues with the chemistry on a first glance, but it was entertaining. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Tilhører ForlagsserienGallimard, Folio SF (246)
Sangamon Taylor is spreading the word about corporations piping toxic wastes into the water from his 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. Now, he's wanted by the FBI, the Mafia, and a group of Satan-worshipping drug dealers--the least of his problems. Because somewhere out there is an unhinged genetic engineer and a lab concocted bacterium that could destroy all ocean life. No library descriptions found. |
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