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Chargement... Ultimax (1978)par Keith Laumer
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An average book at best, about an alien that abducts a common criminal to perform an experiment: to create a superhuman, or "The Ultimax Man". The first part of this book is excellent, but the second half is a confusing jumble of activity that leaves you with a lost-in-new-york feeling. The main characters become unsatisfying. The ending was unsatisfying. There was great potential in this book, but it failed to deliver. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"In the next few days you will master the rules and techniques for every activity, skill, talent, sport and art ever mastered by any human being anywhere. You will be as expert at clipping flints as at architectural drawing. You will be able to juggle, walk a tightrope and add the numerals on the sides of passing freight cars as fast as any idiot savant. You'll absorb all the information in all the books - the human race's entire heritage of knowledge..."This was only the beginning of the experiment that was to turn a petty thief into the mos brilliant and powerful man ever to hold the earth in thrall.This was only the first step on the path of conquest mapped out for - THE ULTIMAX MAN. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The twists revealed at the end of the book were just not great; I did not really care about them at all when they happened. There were a couple of good ideas I wish the book would have explored a little like the simulacrum of the woman in Damocles’ mental projection realizing that she was just a figment of his imagination but was still conscious and “felt alive”. Similarly, I would have liked more exploration of the main character, Damocles, as he transformed into the Ultimax Man and the repercussions of that.
The book was a bit of a disappointment though it was reminiscent of a pulp space-adventure story that I normally like. But it also had a disturbingly racist take on the true origins of Native Americans also reminiscent of the old pulps, however. It did not deliver on what I was looking for, atmosphere generated from the moody descriptions of places and things. I do not recommend this book to anyone looking for something similar to what I was hoping. It also does not have any really unique or different elements or takes on standard sci-fi, adventure, or pulp tropes. If you’re out for a bit of light reading for a few nights, then maybe if you can get it for a buck or two.
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