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Cargando... Cold Storage (2019)por David Koepp
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Cold Storage is, Aliens meet, The Thing, meets Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure, meets The X Files. The narrator speaks like he's sitting across the kitchen table from you, until he does goofy voices - then he cracks me up. The science in this fiction is serious enough to make you wonder, just what are they hiding in Area 51? I really dug the characters in the story, because most of them are the kind of people that we have all known, met, or grown up around (or maybe there's a character that reminds me of...Me?) Like, Naomi, the Black Chick who manages to keep a cool head, while facing the boogie-man...SMILE!!! I was a little worried about this going in, partly because Blake Crouch had blurbed this calling the book terrifying and hilarious, partly because of the wideshot GR reviews. However, I actually had a good time with the book. Now, it has to be said that the book isn't actually anything special. Very reminiscent of Andromeda Strain, without being clinical and boring and painfully dated. The plot is a very straightforward and unoriginal "tough guy saves the day" story, but with the added twist of being self aware and poking a little fun at all the cliches that usually come along with that, especially considering our tough guy has recently retired and is starting to show a little ware and tear. I think I cracked a smile maybe once though, so me and Mr. Crouch clearly have a vastly different concept of what constitutes as hilarious. Now, I could go further into the paper thin relationship side streams that flowed at the edges of the story, I had read reviews saying this was good sci fi. I had read reviews saying this was funny at times. I picked it up when it went on sale and thought, what the heck. I will say I enjoyed the heck out of this book. It really is sci fi which doesn’t take itself too seriously. The deadly mold even gets character development. I didn’t trust the reviews, but trust the reviews. This one is good sci fi fun.
...the book (and movie) that is most analogous to Koepp’s engaging debut novel, "Cold Storage" is Peter Benchley’s iconic "Jaws." In both cases, humans are put in peril by the evolutionary imperatives of a wild creature, which is particularly frightening since you can’t argue or reason with natural selection. In Koepp’s world, however, the shark is a fungus. And the humans in peril aren’t just the folks dumb enough to go in the water… it’s all of us. Which raises the stakes – and the fun – immeasurably. If you find profound anxiety fun. This is a classic thriller in the tradition of Crichton and Richard Preston. If you loved “The Andromeda Strain” and adored “The Hot Zone,” and if you relish, as I do, horrendous and revolting descriptions of distended bodies writhing and heaving and ribcages bursting open with the sound of snapping sticks and guts flying into the faces of dumbfounded people, and if you like the image of unwholesome green globules of fungus bubbling along the ground toward a paralyzed scientist, then this is the thriller for you. But Koepp is better than Crichton in three significant ways: He writes well, he has a wicked sense of humor and his characters are so keenly, intelligently and even movingly drawn that they might have stepped out of a literary novel. On every level, “Cold Storage” is pure, unadulterated entertainment. Koepp builds a tight plot as the three race against time and the fungus, a fictional but all-too-convincing monster of an organism that, if it escapes, could bring on global extinctions. Roberto, Travis, and Naomi are engaging, believable characters. Koepp is skilled at sharp, often humorous dialogue, and Roberto’s discovery of the physical barriers to being a hero at age 68 is both darkly funny and an effective source of suspense....Unlikely heroes battle a frightening fungus that could wipe out humanity in this taut, mordant thriller debut. Breakneck pacing and nonstop action compensate for the predictable story line and the occasional contrivance. Michael Crichton fans won’t want to miss this one.
Hace treinta y dos años, Roberto Díaz, que forma parte de un equipo élite y secreto del Pentágono, viajó al desierto australiano para investigar un posible ataque bioquímico. Lo que encontró fue mucho peor: un organismo altamente mutante, similar a una planta, capaz de causar epidemias destructivas. Se las arregló para contenerlo, enterrándolo en una cámara de almacenamiento en el fondo de una instalación gubernamental fuertemente armada. Sin embargo, esa instalación del gobierno se cerró y se vendida a una compañía que renta espacios para almacenamiento. Al no tener supervisión, el organismo encuentra su salida y está mutando más rápido que nunca. A Diaz se le pide volver de su retiro para ayudar a dos inusuales guardias de seguridad: uno es un exconvicto, la otra una madre soltera, ambos se esfuerzan por preservas sus vidas. Díaz sabe demasiado bien lo que está en juego; los otros dos están aprendiendo sobre la marcha, enfrentando los efectos de esta catástrofe mientras pasan por ella. El objetivo sigue siendo simple: poner en cuarentena este horror una vez más y salvar a toda la humanidad. Cold Storage es un libro de suspenso, único y placentero, con una acción que se mueve rápidamente, un agudo sentido del humor y una brillante exhibición de historias. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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