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Loading... Anthem (edition 2023)by Noah Hawley (Author)
Work InformationAnthem by Noah Hawley
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) cathy.lemann | Mar 21, 2023 |  Five stars for the writing, but downgraded due to plot issues, frustrating structure (for me), and the ridiculous dialog being spoken by supposed teenagers. (  ) luke66 | Oct 22, 2022 | From there the novel proceeds to deep dystopian themes revolving around bad pharma, excessive government surveillance, and teenagers’ growing sense of disenfranchisement across the world. I have a dystopian and generally bleak approach to life myself, so this book might have been right up my street, but in fact I didn’t like it at all. I felt that the scenario was clumsily over-contrived, and the writing style was not conducive to easy reading. I had picked this book up because I had greatly enjoyed Hawley’s earlier novel, ‘Before the Fall’, but this was entirely different. ( ) Eyejaybee | Oct 12, 2022 | Hawłey seems to try to not take sides at first. But if you can read 100 pages, his political persuasion is clear. Does Hawłey really think this book is a winner if he alienates at least half his readers? (  ) techeditor | Aug 23, 2022 | It's 'egg and soldiers'. AND. Therefore, the egg clearly isn't the soldier. Because that would be 'egg and egg'. The soldiers are the strips of toast one dips in the egg in order to retrieve and consume the tasty, tasty soft-boiled yolk. (This is not entirely dissimilar from someone writing "every morning his father would eat a peanut butter sandwich - what he had learned to call 'a jelly sandwich' from his time at Harvard") 1/5, must do better. ( ) HoldenCarver | Jun 9, 2022 |
...this very long book is stuffed with far too many characters, half-developed ideas, and asides from the author that would be more at home in an op-ed than a novel. Almost everyone whose mentioned gets a chapter from their own perspective, resulting in either a promising thread that goes nowhere or a passage that could easily have been skipped without losing anything pertinent to the story. Simultaneously too much and not enough.
"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon Oliver is trying to recover from his sister's tragic passing. He breaks out to join a woman named Louise and a man called The Prophet on a quest as urgent as it is enigmatic. Who lies at the end of the road? A man known as The Wizard, whose past encounter with Louise sparked her own collapse. Their quest becomes a rescue mission when they join up with a man whose sister is being held captive by the Wizard, impregnated and imprisoned in a tower. Noah Hawley's new novel is a freewheeling adventure that finds unquenchable lights in dark corners. Unforgettably vivid characters and a plot as fast and bright as pop cinema blend in a Vonnegutian story that is as timeless as a Grimm's fairy tale. It is a leap into the idiosyncratic pulse of the American heart, written with the bravado, literary power, and feverish foresight that have made Hawley one of our most essential writers"-- No library descriptions found. |
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