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Loading... The Speed of Darkby Elizabeth Moon
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Member recommendations:tortoise recommends The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, "Both are well-written novels with a first-person autistic-spectrum narrator. The Curious Incident has a better-constructed plot (the villain in The Speed (see more) of Dark is a bit cartoonish), but The Speed of Dark is I think more interesting as a commentary on autism." ( see more recommendations and anti-recommendations for this book )
Amazon.com (ISBN 0345481399, Mass Market Paperback)Corporate life in early 21st-century America is even more ruthless than it was at the turn of the millennium. Lou Arrendale, well compensated for his remarkable pattern-recognition skills, enjoys his job and expects never to lose it. But he has a new boss, a man who thinks Lou and the others in his building are a liability. Lou and his coworkers are autistic. And the new boss is going to fire Lou and all his coworkers--unless they agree to undergo an experimental new procedure to "cure" them.In The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon has created a powerful, complex, and believable portrayal of a man who varies radically from what is defined as "normal." The author insightfully explores the nature of "normality," identity, choice, responsibility, free will, illness and health, and good and evil. The Speed of Dark is a powerful, moving, illuminating novel in the tradition of Flowers for Algernon, Forrest Gump, and Rain Man . --Cynthia Ward (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:48:38 -0400) |
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