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Chargement... Golden State (original 2019; édition 2019)par Ben H. Winters (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreGolden State par Ben H. Winters (2019)
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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. I really enjoyed the idea and 3/4 of this book, but the plot didn’t quite make it to the end for me ( ) All I can say is... what in the ever-loving fuck happened to the last quarter of the book? The first 3/4 were exceptional! I was drawn in, fully invested, I couldn't put it down. I was so excited to tell everyone I knew about this amazing new dystopian novel I'd discovered. The premise was excellent, and beautifully developed. I liked the characters - Aysa in particular, but Laszlo as well - and I was eager to see how the story would unfold. And then the "twist" happens, just before Part Three. It comes out of nowhere, despite the fact that Winters has foreshadowed just about everything else, and makes NO sense. Worse yet, nothing's wrapped up. The story veers into an entirely new direction, which is completely out of left field and explains NOTHING. It's worse than contrived. It's nonsense. I was so disappointed with the end of this novel that it tainted my entire experience of reading it. Needless to say, I won't be recommending this one like I'd hoped, and I won't pick up another Ben H. Winters book for a long time, either. Speculator Lazlo Ratesic is assigned a new partner as he begins investigating the death of a fallen roofer. I enjoyed this exploration through a police procedural of a society where lying is the ultimate crime. Both the world building and the mystery were well done, though I must admit to being a bit baffled at the end as to what the significance of the pumpkins might be. This was a great premise with a great protagonist in a book which took a little bit too long to get going. Don’t get me wrong, I wound up loving the book in the end, but I had to keep moving ahead at times. The world is one of the main draws of the book- you cannot lie as it is against the law, everything is recorded, and there are people who can detect lies. Greetings are done by stating facts. Fiction doesn’t exist in books. There is film of every moment of your life. A apparent suicide happens, but something isn’t right. A book is found with a false cover and inside is fiction. Film is missing. Someone has been lying and lying in a big way. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Fiction.
Thriller.
HTML: From award-winning, New York Times bestselling novelist Ben H. Winters comes a mind-bending novel set in a world governed by absolute truth, where lies are as dangerous as murder. In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year veteran of the Speculative Service. He lives in the Golden State, a nation standing where California once did, a place where like-minded Americans retreated after the erosion of truth and the spread of lies made public life and governance impossible. In the Golden State, knowingly contradicting the truth is the greatest crime-and stopping those crimes is Laz's job. In its service, he is one of the few individuals permitted to harbor untruths, to "speculate" on what might have happened. But the Golden State is less a paradise than its name might suggest. To monitor, verify, and enforce the truth requires a veritable panopticon of surveillance and recording. And when those in control of the facts twist them for nefarious means, the Speculators are the only ones with the power to fight back. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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