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Cargando... The Salt Line (2017 original; edición 2017)por Holly Goddard Jones (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I like cli-fi. I also often think that the planet, being an organism, will be protecting itself in the future, in some way, from the humans--the poisoners. Here in this book the author has come up with a story about the Earth doing just that--protecting itself against the toxic humans. It comes in the form of a tick, that burrows under your skin, lays eggs, and when the eggs hatch, tear your skin to pieces getting out. That's not all--they can also give you a disease that paralyzes you. Whoo, this was a wild ride, and I loved every bit of it. Nature Turns on Humans Set sometime in the near future, nature turns the tables on humans in the form of tiny ticks, These are powerful little creatures, particularly the deadly female, that kill painfully. To avoid them and carry on as usual, humans confine themselves to districts walled off from nature. The U.S. as we know it has vanished, replaced by large regional states of varying prosperity. People, it seems, live much as we do now within these regions, with a particular emphasis on the internet, social media, and entertainment, delivered via the ever present tablet. However, for the adventurous wealthy, organizations offer excursions beyond the wall into the real nature that we take for granted today. Not everybody, though, lives behind the walls. In the outer zones, people live somewhat like our 19th century ancestors did, by their wits and off the land. While life can be brutal and lawless with the strongest and meanest taking advantage of the weak and young, some have organized into communities resembling communes. One such commune, known as Ruby City, led by a mother figure named June, thrives, partly by producing and selling an illegal drug called Salt, a drug that, refined in another way, possesses other properties that both make life in a wilderness possible but also potentially doom humanity over the long run. Among the characters, in addition to June, are the excursionists: Jesse, the pop music star and his girlfriend Edie; Marta, wife of kingpin gangster and wannabe region president David Perrone; Wes, a boyish wunderkind internet entrepreneur; as well as an assortment of others. Ruby City principals include excursion leader Andy, who lives in both worlds, and Violet, the “adopted” daughter of June, badly disfigured as a child in a sexually abusive community. The tourists become prisoners of the Ruby City group, hostages in June’s plan for survival against the assault of Perrone, who has an interest in controlling the community’s Salt production. It gives nothing away to say that things go badly awry. Perhaps the best way to describe the novel is to remind you of Jurassic Park. In the beginning, the novelty of the new world intrigues you, as do the reconstituted dinosaurs in the movie. Then all that marvel turns into dashing about to survive. And in the case of the novel, layer on plenty of character histories. That is to say, the promise of the novel gets lost in a lot of running around with bouts of introspection on the part of the characters, so in the end, readers aren’t left with much. There are better dystopian visions available. Nature Turns on Humans Set sometime in the near future, nature turns the tables on humans in the form of tiny ticks, These are powerful little creatures, particularly the deadly female, that kill painfully. To avoid them and carry on as usual, humans confine themselves to districts walled off from nature. The U.S. as we know it has vanished, replaced by large regional states of varying prosperity. People, it seems, live much as we do now within these regions, with a particular emphasis on the internet, social media, and entertainment, delivered via the ever present tablet. However, for the adventurous wealthy, organizations offer excursions beyond the wall into the real nature that we take for granted today. Not everybody, though, lives behind the walls. In the outer zones, people live somewhat like our 19th century ancestors did, by their wits and off the land. While life can be brutal and lawless with the strongest and meanest taking advantage of the weak and young, some have organized into communities resembling communes. One such commune, known as Ruby City, led by a mother figure named June, thrives, partly by producing and selling an illegal drug called Salt, a drug that, refined in another way, possesses other properties that both make life in a wilderness possible but also potentially doom humanity over the long run. Among the characters, in addition to June, are the excursionists: Jesse, the pop music star and his girlfriend Edie; Marta, wife of kingpin gangster and wannabe region president David Perrone; Wes, a boyish wunderkind internet entrepreneur; as well as an assortment of others. Ruby City principals include excursion leader Andy, who lives in both worlds, and Violet, the “adopted” daughter of June, badly disfigured as a child in a sexually abusive community. The tourists become prisoners of the Ruby City group, hostages in June’s plan for survival against the assault of Perrone, who has an interest in controlling the community’s Salt production. It gives nothing away to say that things go badly awry. Perhaps the best way to describe the novel is to remind you of Jurassic Park. In the beginning, the novelty of the new world intrigues you, as do the reconstituted dinosaurs in the movie. Then all that marvel turns into dashing about to survive. And in the case of the novel, layer on plenty of character histories. That is to say, the promise of the novel gets lost in a lot of running around with bouts of introspection on the part of the characters, so in the end, readers aren’t left with much. There are better dystopian visions available. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"In the spirit of Station Eleven and California, award-winning novelist Holly Goddard Jones offers a literary spin on the dystopian genre with this gripping story of survival and humanity about a group of adrenaline junkies who jump "the Salt Line." How far will they go for their freedom--once they decide what freedom really means? In an unspecified future, the United States' borders have receded behind a salt line--a ring of scorched earth that protects its citizens from deadly disease-carrying ticks. Those within the zone live safe, if limited, lives in a society controlled by a common fear. Few have any reason to venture out of zone, except for the adrenaline junkies who pay a fortune to tour what's left of nature. Those among the latest expedition include a popstar and his girlfriend, Edie; the tech giant Wes; and Marta; a seemingly simple housewife. Once out of zone, the group find themselves at the mercy of deadly ticks--and at the center of a murderous plot. They become captives in Ruby City, a community made up of outer-zone survivors determined to protect their hardscrabble existence. As alliances and friendships shift amongst the hostages, Edie, Wes, and Marta must decide how far they are willing to go to get to the right side of the salt line"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book started out as expected, introducing the ensemble cast and setting up their trip which was set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and North Carolina but once they got underway the story suddenly changed and instead of the high-octane survivalist story that I was expecting turned into a run-of-the-mill thriller with the group being taken prisoners. Instead of adventure and deadly ticks, the narrative became a social commentary on various subjects such as technology, human rights and quality of life concerns. I was left feeling confused and uncertain as to what the book was trying to accomplish.
I have seen mixed comments about this book, some handled the change in story direction well and others did not. I did not. On top of not being the story I expected, I found it quite slow and at times it got quite bogged down in politics. There weren’t any characters that I particularly cared about so all in all, a disappointing read for me. ( )