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Cargando... The Book of Koli (The Rampart Trilogy, 1) (edición 2020)por M. R. Carey (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Advance copy provided by NetGalley I don’t know if dystopian fiction is the best thing to read when there’s a pandemic on, but I still really enjoyed this. Carey has a real talent in this genre, which was evident in The Girl with all the Gifts and The Boy on the Bridge. There are no child zombies in this one—it’s the trees you have to watch out for. The book rolls along at a leisurely pace at the beginning, with Koli drawing the reader into his tale and painting a picture of a future far enough away that technology is viewed as magic. Koli’s life is dramatically changed when the character Monono shows up, and her arrival brings a lighter tone to the book. There’s still some pretty grim stuff, but Monono adds humor and hope to the story. I really liked Koli too. His vocabulary and grammar take some getting used to, but it isn’t difficult. Carey fans will like it, and so will people who are new to his work. For some reason, I didn't expect to love this as much as I did. At the beginning, the writing had me a bit worried, but I actually got used to it pretty quickly, and even grew to really like it. "I learned since then, and paid a price to learn it, that them as lay claim to great wisdom most often got nothing in their store but bare scrapings. And by the same token, them as think they're ignorant think it because they can see the edges of what they know, which you can only see when what you know is tall enough to stand on and take a look around." I didn't know overly much about the book going in, but the setting turned out to be one of my absolute favorites in fantasy. The story starts from a closely guarded little village set in a pretty feudal society. The world has flourished, and the world has fallen, both by our own hands. What is left are the small, dwindling communities. There still exist the remnants of past technologies, which are wielded by a chosen few, who in turn rule the ones without. The threat from outside isn't zombies or war or disease, but nature itself, which has turned on humanity after humanity has tinkered with it for too long. Oh, and there's also a badass, self-aware AI. Basically everything I love in fantasy. The story is told by Koli, who we know from the get go is telling his story after the fact. That doesn't lessen the tension at all, and while the generous foreshadowing helps lessen the anxiety, it also helps create it. The story begins from Koli's childhood, but the narrator is already a grown man. The book ends then Koli's a teenager, at the precipice of actually beginning the journey ahead. "Tomorrow would do, I thought. And like most people who think that, I was dead wrong. There's only ever one day that matters, and it moves along with you." This book brought to mind so many other books and writers, but not in a way that felt like an imitation, but more like it just exists in a similar world. It's definitely a fresh take, and Carey's storytelling is really spectacular. Some other works that came to mind were Cronin's The Passage, Atwood's Oryx & Crake, Lawrence's The Book of the Ancestor, Wyndham's The Chrysalids, Burke's Semiosis, VanderMeer's nature thematic, and The Name of the Wind (namely for the style of narration, if not for anything else.) I literally bashed the book against my head after the last line, definitely a book that should not be read without access to the sequel. Se dice en inglés: "would have," "could have." No "would of," "could of." This drove me crazy in this book. This is the post-apocalyptic world of Koli, who lives in northern England. The only thing missing is mutants. Koli wants to be a Rampart, which is somebody who knows how to make the old tech work. But the Venastin family has a monopoly on the old tech. It's a secret they have that makes them the elite rulers of the village of 200. A secret that proves to be deadly for Koli when he finds out a little bit about it, and works out the rest for himself. Koli finds a way to make an old iPod-type music player work. The AI that is the voice inside of it, is named Monono Aware. After searching the ether, and finding upgrades for the entertainment player, Monono Aware shares her past with Koli: 2020, Paperback, Hachete Book Group P.310: " 'monono Hawaii is sort of a gimmick name. It's a phrase in Japanese for a certain kind of feeling. Did you ever look at something beautiful, coley, like a sunset or a flower, and think how sad it was that it would only be there for a little while? That it was going to vanish out of the world and never be seen again, and there was nothing you or anybody could do to make it stay? 'Then what you were feeling was monono aware. The sadness that's deep down inside beautiful things. The pain and suckiness of everything having a shelf life. I-love-you-so-much-goodbye-forever. Yoshiko [the real-life girl that Monono Aware was taken from] had lived with that feeling ever since a teacher showed her a picture of an African elephant and told her why she was never going to meet one.' " Koli's is a world of deadly plants and animals, that will kill you in a moment, when you go outside the stronghold of the village. First in a trilogy, I like this enough that I will be reading the rest. At the end of this first one, Koli is on his way to London to see if there's anything of the old civilization left, and to find stockpiles of old tech. [The Book of Koli] A post-apocalytic novel set in the village of Mythen Rood surrounded by walls and run by those who can "wake" the old technology, especially the weapons. These weapns are needed to defend the community as pretty much everything outside the walls are trying to kill them and that includes the trees. Koli and his two closest friends are coming up on their testing soon to see if they can wake the tech but before that date comes he learns a secret from Ursala (a wandering traveller/doctor) that will shock him to his core and change his destiny forever. The next two sections will contain spoilers for the first book so I' just going to put it all under spoiler tags. Read at your own peril. [The Trials of Koli] [The Fall of Koli] Overall thoughts on the trilogy Although I enjoyed the trilogy overall I found that it didn't quite live up to expectations after having read [The Girl With All the Gifts]. Though with the latter being an exceptional book that's not too surprising really. It’s Carey so still a good and interesting read though aimed more at the YA market. It's written mostly in a devolved language where Koli is the narrator starting from when he was a 14-year-old boy. His friend Spinner and others are added to narration duties from the second book onwards. It's a little jarring when segments of the story are written in a more recognisable tone, though this juxtaposition is kind of explained after concluding the whole trilogy. A few too many other plot holes remain after it’s all over though to be entirely satisfying. 3½★'s for each book I think. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"The Book of Koli is the unforgettable story of a young boy struggling to find his place in a world where nature itself has turned against humanity: Everything that lives hates us... Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will. Koli has lived in Mythen Rood his entire life. He believes the first rule of survival is that you don't venture too far beyond the walls. He's wrong."--Provided by publisher. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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