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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. My expectations for this one did not match the depth of the thriller it became. :) What was I expecting? Biopunk social ramifications for new designer drugs a bit more designed than what we're used to. Maybe a little tragedy, more interesting developments in a thriller-ish drug-company evil mastermind kind of way. But what I got was a good tale of redemption, working through the crazy, drug addiction, and responsibility. It's filled to the brim with great flawed characters across the board and a rather special LGBT relationship that pulled on my heartstrings. But what really got me was the implications of this particular drug. It stimulates the emotion of the numinous. More than any other kind of drug, it threatens to replace churches for the feeling it produces. The novel could have gone the way of PKD's Ubik for this but it didn't. It stayed a thriller and let the ramifications seep in while our MC tried to put a STOP to the manufacturer. Going off the drug is like losing your God. Existential loss. Meaninglessness. You might think you're prepared, but once you KNOW and then you get it taken away... that's when the suicides... or worse... start happening. Honestly, I didn't realize this would be so good. :) Maybe I should just start trusting that Daryl Gregory knows what he's doing and just go ahead and read everything he's ever written in blind trust. This is my fourth and I should have learned that by now. :) Ce roman de Daryl Gregory est son quatrième et il est paru trois ans après L'Éducation de Stony Mayhall qui était un véritable ovni littéraire, bijou d'inventivité et d'originalité. Sans atteindre ce résultat, l'auteur s'en approche d'assez prêt car Afterparty est vraiment très original dans son intrigue de départ ainsi que dans son personnage principal toujours affublé de son ange acolyte. Le déroulement de l'intrigue est lui un peu plus classique ainsi que son dénouement où encore une fois le personnage le plus sympathique se retrouve être celui qui a manigancé un plan assez machiavélique dès le départ. L'auteur choisit de ne pas donner toutes les explications relatives à certains phénomènes dont l'ange du personnage principal se trouve être à la base, ce qui est un peu dommage. Mais cela n'entache en rien le plaisir que l'on prend à la lecture de ce livre. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention, and without the drug, commits suicide. Lyda Rose, another patient in that detention facility, has a dark secret: she was one of the original scientists who developed the drug. With the help of an ex-government agent and an imaginary, drug-induced doctor, Lyda sets out to find the other three survivors of the five who made the Numinous in a quest to set things right. A mind-bending and violent chase across Canada and the US, Afterparty is a marvelous mix of William Gibson's Neuromancer, Philip K. Dick's Ubik, and perhaps a bit of Peter Watts's Starfish: a last chance to save civilization, or die trying"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The thing I liked best about this book (and there's a lot to like) is how much of an ass Lyda is. She is a truly unlikable person, but very compelling. She's flawed, and irritatingly self-absorbed, and above all she is COMPLICATED. A very well-written addict.
The world building was nice, a short jump into the future and a longing look at DIY drugs. I'll read more by the author for certain. ( )