Radix

If you're a lazy reader, then stop right here. AA Attanasio isn't going to be your cup of tea.

However, if you like having your mind blown, your world expanded, your characters lusciously developed over time, having many sub-plots coalescing and finally cascading into each other like an impromptu orgy and love looking up words you've never read before or an author who can invent them - then please, by all means. Continue reading...

In no way, would I dare write spoilers in this review. Why? Well, if there is one thing AA Attanasio delivers, it's a memorable journey you will not likely forget anytime soon. I can honestly say that he's written the only stories and characters that have compelled me to become more. More than me. From a young show more age, when I spent summers in libraries, he helped push the limits of my thinking mind and invited me into a world, many worlds, all types of places and universes that I had always hoped exist - but wasn't quite sure if they did?

There are moments, when reading this sci-fi/fantasy classic that you have to wonder - has the author walked right into the body of someone? A troop of someones? Why, you wonder? Well, that's how vivid his fluid writing is. You're utterly convinced he's stepped right inside his character's life, head, body, and mind. All to reveal his soul. It's fictional poetry.

Truthfully, this isn't just a review for Radix. It's a review for all of his books. With each one, you may not be certain if the same author wrote them all? In fact, there was a point in time when I thought he had betrayed me and my curiosity and walked away from his books. Only to return, to realize his range is just simply outta control. Just like his genius.

Beneath all of the harshness and reality-building, are beautiful core truths. The type of stuff that never goes away. The things that speak to us, as a reader to our cores. He never just delivers a tale, a story, an epic. Although certainly, that would be enough. He delivers different ways to transcend, to be awake, to become enlightened, to understand power, truth and love.

There just might be a real Merlin, after-all. :) show less

An awesome evocation of a post-apocalyptic, mutations-obsessed, mutants-ridden America, with some of the outcasts living at the margin of civilization who turn out to be something entirely unexpected and fascinating, and the making of an unlikely hero shaped both by his will and external forces and events far beyond his grasp.

The very end and its "kill foozle" template was, however, a very big letdown.

The first time I read this novel, I had a difficult time getting into it. Even so, I never doubted that it was very good. The failing was mine as a reader.

I came back to it over a decade later and got sucked right in from the first page. It wasn't what I remembered - and it was much, much better!

Great start, original, unlikable and unlikely hero. Very strange and different but at the end dropping in a soup of mystical babble without a thread of logic to hang on.

Sadly this became a bit of a chore to read. It starts off so well then just seems to meander with no real purpose. The finale, though not a complete let down, is rather trite.
Certainly not worth the hype it recieved on it's original publication

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incredibly accurate review

Reseña de La Tercera Fundación:

"A ratos es entretenida y sorprendente, pero prima el desconcierto y aburrimiento al leerla. Desconcierto debido a que según avanza la novela, se hace más extraña al adentrarse en conceptos filosóficos que ya querría Kant para él, y aburrida pues poco a poco dejas de enterarte de lo que está pasando, dónde está pasando y cuándo está pasando."
Concuerdo 100%. le bajo media estrella por enroscada.