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Loading... Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism (edition 2011)by David Nickle
Work InformationEutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism by David Nickle
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  beentsy | Aug 12, 2023 |   And, to be fair, there's actually nothing wrong with this novel. The story is interesting, the characters...well, slightly less so to me, but not bad, and the writing is quite good. But somewhere in that mix, something just didn't quite gel for me. So, about 80 pages in, I set it down and decided to not try anymore. Not horrible. Just not for me, I guess. TobinElliott | Sep 3, 2021 |  ) jlweiss | Apr 23, 2021 | ) katebrarian | Jul 28, 2020 | Starts out slow, but speeds up as it progresses, and ends up being a wild ride. A few scenes in here genuinely made me feel really squeamish, particularly a couple very intimate descriptions of surgery and monster births. And there’s a whole lot of nasty to be found on these pages--racism, rape, murder, surgery, plague, and a whole lot of gynecology. Otherwise, it’s a pretty straight forward horror piece. Fans of the genre won’t be disappointed, but also probably won’t ever be terribly surprised. There’s also a pretty silly romance subplot in here, but other than a few too many ‘Oh my poor darling’ type comments, it doesn’t get in the way of scares. And there’s also a surprising amount of racial tension, which is managed well and merges into the horror narrative well. This is good genre fiction. It’s weird, it’s uncomfortable, and it’s dark as hell. (  ) gloveswithpockets | May 28, 2020 | no reviews | add a review
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The year is 1911. In Cold Spring Harbour, New York, the newly formed Eugenics Records Office is sending its agents to catalogue the infirm, the insane, and the criminal--with an eye to a cull, for the betterment of all. Near Cracked Wheel, Montana, a terrible illness leaves Jason Thistledown an orphan, stranded in his dead mother's cabin until the spring thaw shows him the true meaning of devastation--and the barest thread of hope. At the edge of the utopian mill town of Eliada, Idaho, Doctor Andrew Waggoner faces a Klansman's noose and glimpses wonder in the twisting face of the patient known only as Mister Juke. And deep in a mountain lake overlooking that town, something stirs, and thinks, in its way: Things are looking up. Eutopia follows Jason and Andrew as together and alone, they delve into the secrets of Eliada--industrialist Garrison Harper's attempt to incubate a perfect community on the edge of the dark woods and mountains of northern Idaho. What they find reveals the true, terrible cost of perfection--the cruelty of the surgeon's knife--the folly of the cull--and a monstrous pact with beings that use perfection as a weapon, and faith as a trap. No library descriptions found. |
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Sooo, if you can handle some very specific squidgey, stomach twisting scenes a la Dead Ringers with some amazing storytelling, this may be just the book for you. (