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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Championship dishwasher Woo-jin Kan is told by his future self that he must quit his job at Il Italian Joint and write a book called How to Love People so that The Last Dude, who sits atop an Arizona mesa, can read this book and spell out for any onlookers what it was that brought about the end of humanity. It starts there and gets weirder. Marauding sentient glaciers, floating celestial heads, miniature software development monks - that sort of thing. Boudinot is both a hilariously gifted wordsmith and a master storyteller, and Blueprints of the Afterlife will most certainly be among the best books of 2012. My best friend Joel recommended Richard Kelly's bizarre film Southland Tales a few years ago. I found considerable overlap with Southland Tales and Blueprints of the Afterlife, certainly more than between Boudinot's novel and Infinite Jest, which appears to be the trope many reviewers are leaning toward. Southland Tales also features a familiar future with our liminal excesses appropriated and a plethora of references abound, especially of German philosophy, though Boudinot reaches to Nietzsche whereast Kelly mines Marx for metaphor. Blueprints proved to be an unyielding vortex, sucking me inward and challenging me part and parcel to parse its disparate elements. The tension between content and context is ruthlessly elongated, it brought 1Q84 to mind, that monastic repetition. Oh well, I liked it but found most threads dangling. Here's to the inchoate and what we label art. Honestly, this book was amazing and I couldn't put it down. It was recommended to me because I had read the gone away world, which I love, and sadly this book doesn't have as much kungfu. That being said I totally love this book, and I would have given it 5 stars except that the ending was a little disappointing, anti-climactic climactic even. I can't wait to read more by this author though sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Fantasy.
Fiction.
Science Fiction.
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I liked the near future commentary about cloning and the bionet and apocalyptic scenarios. This is a big book in terms of having a lot going on and a lot of stories and ideas and imagery which really offsets the negatives, so definitely check it out if you love science fiction / magical realism / apocalypse fiction. I loved Woo-jin Kan, the seizure ridden award winning dish washer, I wish he had more presence in the book.
I'll definitely check out more of Boudinot, I think his writing is strong, I hope in the next book he ether makes a commitment to one genre, or figures out a way to better blend the two.
In the end, I need to think more about this book, there's so much going on and the crazy, chaotic world in this book is fascinating and really dark and fun. ( )