Marc Horne

I downloaded this from Feedbooks one day this week, when Feedbooks itself was down. The holding page had links to some of the most popular books on the site (to read while you were waiting for the site to come back up?) and the last one on the list was this. It caught my eye because of the first line of the blurb: "One man goes to Tokyo to end the world. It goes fairly well." It appealed to my sense of humour.

The story is a compelling one - covering apocalyptic cults and the experience of day-to-day life in Japan for a Westerner, which makes for an intriguing mix. It's well written and (despite its fairly grim subject matter) an enjoyable and often funny read. There were some editing issues with the Feedbooks version of the text: nothing major (it's/its and their/there confusion, jut for just), but enough to be a slight distraction when reading.… (plus d'informations)

I downloaded this from Feedbooks one day this week, when Feedbooks itself was down. The holding page had links to some of the most popular books on the site (to read while you were waiting for the site to come back up?) and the last one on the list was this. It caught my eye because of the first line of the blurb: "One man goes to Tokyo to end the world. It goes fairly well." It appealed to my sense of humour.

The story is a compelling one - covering apocalyptic cults and the experience of day-to-day life in Japan for a Westerner, which makes for an intriguing mix. It's well written and (despite its fairly grim subject matter) an enjoyable and often funny read. There were some editing issues with the Feedbooks version of the text: nothing major (it's/its and their/there confusion, jut for just), but enough to be a slight distraction when reading.… (plus d'informations)

Tokyo Zero (My Tokyo Death Cult)

I am sure there are a number of people out there who truly enjoyed Marc Horne’s Tokyo Zero. I am not one of those people. It had its moments, and it kept me involved enough that after start/stopping it over a month, I was able to finish it. I did not really enjoy it though. It was kind of like weak chocolate milk.. it was good, but it did not satisfy.

Essentially, it is about a man who’s father is the head of an anti-humanity cult. they are working to remove the human population of the world, weeding it until the garden is clean of pesky pests. The main character goes to Tokyo, and infiltrates a different cult who has their own agenda. The goal of this group is to release a series of Sarin gas bombs in the Tokyo subway system.

For those who plan to read this, I will save the plot details so you can still be surprised.

The characters in the book were decent (a couple were actually stellar), the story was pretty up my alley, so I guess the key factor that I disliked was the writing style. The story was disjointed in many places to an unrecoverable degree. It seemed as if Horne was trying to hard to write a good novel and got wrapped up in the trying, stifling the book instead.. It also felt over edited, as if he had cut a little here and there to increase the pace, but instead it was nearly unreadable in many places.

Give it a shot if you are interested, it just turned out not to be something I could get behind 100%.… (plus d'informations)