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Chargement... Ex-Purgatory: A Novel (édition 2014)par Peter Clines
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This was more like one and a half stars. Okay, so I really did not like this book overall. It was incredibly different from the previous entries in the series and I often found myself dragging my feet about picking it up again. The constant switches and repeated scenes annoyed me. All that being said, the last 100 pages is what saved this from being a 1 star read. There was once again, a huge fight that was fun to read, but it came a little late to save this rating. Also, the epilogue was dumb this time. I mean, for fuck's sake, Christian is very clearly a serious threat to the LA survivors but nobody is willing to do what it takes to stop her, even after the end of this most recent event. This was more like one and a half stars. Okay, so I really did not like this book overall. It was incredibly different from the previous entries in the series and I often found myself dragging my feet about picking it up again. The constant switches and repeated scenes annoyed me. All that being said, the last 100 pages is what saved this from being a 1 star read. There was once again, a huge fight that was fun to read, but it came a little late to save this rating. Also, the epilogue was dumb this time. I mean, for fuck's sake, Christian is very clearly a serious threat to the LA survivors but nobody is willing to do what it takes to stop her, even after the end of this most recent event. Read from December 16 to 19, 2015 I've quickly devoured this series; however, this is NOT my favorite installment. It gets spoilery ahead... I spent the first half trying to wrap my brain around what was happening. While I had an idea of who was doing it, I couldn't figure out how. Then once I was told, I *still* didn't get it. I mean, WHAT? Perhaps it doesn't help that The Matrix and Inception are both movies I never wrapped my brain around. But mind-cloning yourself? Taking over another person's body from one conversation? Even in a world where zombies have taken over, this is just TOO much. And what IS the real John Smith doing? Is he even alive? Despite my overall dislike of this one in the series, I'm still looking forward to the next. February can't come soon enough. READING PROGRESS 12/16/2015 marked as: currently-reading 12/17/2015 27.0% "I'm not sure what's going on yet. How is all of this (not?) happening?" 12/18/2015 48.0% "So far this one is completely unlike the others in the series and I haven't figured out yet if I really like it or if I'm just confused." 12/19/2015 100.0% aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieEx-Heroes (4)
The fourth novel in Peter Clines' bestselling Ex series. When he's awake, George Bailey is just an ordinary man. Five days a week he coaxes his old Hyundai to life, curses the Los Angeles traffic, and clocks in at his job as a handyman at the local college. But when he sleeps, George dreams of something more. George dreams of flying. He dreams of fighting monsters. He dreams of a man made of pure lightning, an armored robot, a giant in an army uniform, a beautiful woman who moves like a ninja. Then one day as he's walking from one fix-it job to the next, a pale girl in a wheelchair tells George of another world, one in which civilization fell to a plague that animates the dead...and in which George is no longer a glorified janitor, but one of humanity's last heroes. Her tale sounds like madness, of course. But as George's dreams and his waking life begin bleeding together, he starts to wonder--which is the real world, and which is just fantasy? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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So yet another character we thought was dead from book two is back again, and while the plot is quite a neat idea the device he uses to pull it off is too similar to how Rodney/Peasy/Legion managed to survive. Things get very Matrix, or Inception - whichever your preferred dream state world - with the opening of the books seeing George and the other heroes living their pre-superpowers pre-zombie apocalypse lives. Only Maddy seems aware that it isn't real and she tries to convince George and the others so they can wake up and deal with whatever the latest threat to The Mount is.
It was a refreshing change to have our heroes in a functioning recognisable world and relearning their powers to an extent. Stealth also is out of her masked ninja fetish outfit and in normal clothes (so we get a billion descriptions of her impossibly beautiful face). It definitely mixed things up in a way that was refreshing, although the pop culture references that I usually enjoy began to reach a critical mass as they tried to figure things out. I'm never adverse to a Monty Python sketch though.
George is still in the main protagonist seat, and once again there was maybe too little of my favourites Barry and Danielle. I enjoy learning more about Stealth's backstory (her father in this case). The action is still as ridiculous as you'd expect from these books - pretty epic "boss fight." There is a particularly awesome bit of window jumping from Stealth! I felt it was a bit cruel to dangle Gorgon and Banzai in front of me.. I'm still not over that! (Goddamn I loved Gorgon). Plus in true comic book style the rules of the universe and what the limits of people's powers are continue to change on a whim.
I've got to a point now though where I feel after four books there should be a bit of an overall direction or story arc to this now. 'Monster of the week' only is interesting for so long before it gets repetitive.. especially when you are recycling the same three bloody villains! (There is no Legion, for which I am eternally grateful for). Please, please get some new ideas Peter Clines. I love these books, they're insane fun but I need something actually new to happen now.
The ending was kind of cool so I still have hopes for another books!
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