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Cargando... Woke Up Lonelypor Fiona Maazel
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Couldn't get into the story, nor did I like the format...but that's just me :) ( ) This one's got a good premise: a cult born out of the crushing loneliness that seems endemic to modern American life threatens to disrupt society. Unfortunately, it goes off the rails almost immediately, taking the reader on a wild ride that involves unsightly, elaborate disguises; tortured, unworkable family dynamics; CIA codebreaking; an ill-advised trip to North Korea; and the seedy underbelly of -- of all places -- Cincinnati, Ohio. Not all that much about how the cult in question -- the Helix -- salves its members loneliness is included here, which would seem to be a rather glaring omission, nor does the author venture too many theories about why Americans have come to feel so terribly alone. Even so, something kept me reading long enough to finish this one, and I think it was the books' characters. By this I mean mostly its bit players -- I found its central protagonists, Esme and Thurlow, to be pretty unbearable. But the lonely souls they come across in their adventures are worth spending some time with, interesting portraits of American lives that somehow turned out wrong. Sometimes "Woke Up Lonely" seems like a mediocre novel that has a good short story collection hiding in it somewhere, and it was worth sticking around for those bits.Not that it's enough for me to recommend it, though. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Thurlow Dan is the founder of the Helix, a cult that promises to cure loneliness. With its communes and speed-dating, mixers and confession sessions, the Helix has become a national phenomenon, and attracted the attention of governments worldwide. But Thurlow, camped out in his Cincinnati headquarters, is lonely, for his ex-wife, Esme, and their daughter, whom he hasn't seen in ten years. Esme is a covert agent who has spent her life spying on Thurlow, mostly to protect him from the law. Now, with her superiors demanding results, she recruits four misfits to botch a reconnaissance mission in Cincinnati. But when Thurlow takes them hostage, he ignites a siege of the Helix House that will change all their lives forever. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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