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The Ferryman par Justin Cronin
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The Ferryman (original 2023; édition 2023)

par Justin Cronin (Auteur)

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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia--where the truth isn't what it seems. Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. Then they retire themselves, embarking on a ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery, where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh. Proctor Bennett, of the Department of Social Contracts, has a satisfying career as a ferryman, gently shepherding people through the retirement process--and, when necessary, enforcing it. But all is not well with Proctor. For one thing, he's been dreaming--which is supposed to be impossible in Prospera. For another, his monitor percentage has begun to drop alarmingly fast. And then comes the day he is summoned to retire his own father, who gives him a disturbing and cryptic message before being wrestled onto the ferry. Meanwhile, something is stirring. The Support Staff, ordinary men and women who provide the labor to keep Prospera running, have begun to question their place in the social order. Unrest is building, and there are rumors spreading of a resistance group--known as "Arrivalists"--who may be fomenting revolution. Soon Proctor finds himself questioning everything he once believed, entangled with a much bigger cause than realized--and on a desperate mission to uncover the truth"--… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:The Ferryman
Auteurs:Justin Cronin (Auteur)
Info:Ballantine Books (2023), 560 pages
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The Ferryman par Justin Cronin (2023)

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Well, I raced through this one! It's interesting layered... It felt much more "pensive" and allegorical than his prior series. Recommend for the well-told perspectives, the interesting story arc and the varied characters. ( )
  decaturmamaof2 | Nov 22, 2023 |
The Ferryman went off the rails quickly, and for a bit it was hard to follow. Things cleared up when the "It was all a dream" trope was revealed.

As for the "It was all a dream" trope, that's a generally reviled trope. But I think it works better here than in most cases because it wasn't pulled on the readers at the end. Since we found out in the middle and there was time left for more plot, the dream mattered. Especially since a couple of the dream-escapees reentered the dream.

Weird book all in all.
  Tom_Wright | Oct 11, 2023 |
The farther I read in this book the less I liked it. In order to understand the story the reader must embrace the idea that Prospera's people, even though they are otherwise rational and kind, are incurious about their own completely unnatural biology and their place in a social system. I don't want to spoil the story for anyone but really, I could not suspend my disbelief.

I received a review copy of this book from the publishers through NetGalley.com. ( )
  Dokfintong | Oct 5, 2023 |
Proctor Bennett is a ferryman on the somewhat utopian island of Prospera; his job is to guide people through retirement when their digital monitor says it's time. But when his own number starts to dip, he knows he's not ready. Worse yet, he's started to have some strange dreams, though dreaming shouldn't be possible. Then he's tasked with retiring his own father, who says some cryptic things on the way to and at the ferry. Meanwhile, some of the less privileged citizens of Prospera begin to express their dislike for their forced place in society. When all of this comes to a head, the island will never be the same.

I quite enjoyed this book overall. I'll admit it developed slowly, but there was enough intrigue to keep me curious and coming back to it often. I had my theories, but since I tended to switch from one theory to another, I can't really claim to have been completely correct in my guesses by the end. The conclusion was tied up pretty well, with a full explanation given, but at times along the way, I found myself seriously lost. The overall feel and style of the book reminded me a lot of Fahrenheit 451. Proctor was mostly a sympathetic hero, but I don't think there was a whole lot of substance to him through most of the book.

The book starts out in present tense, then switches between present and past throughout the book. I never did figure out if there was a pattern to that, so I really don't understand the decision to write it that way. And by the end, though I said it was tied up pretty well, there were a few things, somewhat large but not glaring, that were left unexplained. I wasn't left with the feeling other books of the type, where the reader isn't meant to even understand what is going on with the world until part way through the book, have left me with, the feeling that I can't wait to read it again knowing the truth, to see how things fit together. Maybe that means my guesses were actually close enough that I didn't feel completely thrown when the truth was revealed. However, that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the ride. If you enjoy cryptic sci-fi stories of vaguely dystopian futures with something of a twist, you'll probably like this book.

Thank you to Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group for providing me a copy of this book to review. ( )
  Kristi_D | Sep 22, 2023 |
Prospera is a world with a well-designed caste system that turns out to be not so well-designed. The elite citizens enjoy long lives until an embedded monitor reports it's time to board a ferry to the Nursery where bodies are renewed and memories wiped clean so they can return to start a new life as a new person.
Proctor Bennett is well-established with the elite as a Ferryman who eases people into the retirement process and their trip to the Nursery. His ideal life gets confusing, though, when he must force his father on the ferry after he tries to flee. His final words to Proctor were: “There were things about your mother, son, things you didn’t know… The world is not the world. You’re not you. It’s all Oranios.” Proctor knows something is not right. His search for answers takes him to The Annex where support staff, a lower caste, lives, and eventually his own ferry ride to The Nursery ... and beyond.
This book was challenging. At times I had a hard time remembering who was who. I recommend taking notes as you read to note who is who. Also the plot got confusing in terms of what was happening to who and in what time frame. Can't say more without spoiling the twist.
I wanted to read this book because I loved the trilogy he wrote: The Passage-The Twelve-The City of Mirrors. I struggled with this book, though, and never got fully invested in the characters. This is a book that needs to be read twice to fully appreciate its cleverness and plot development. But it's not likely I will. ( )
  LJCain | Sep 15, 2023 |
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The new novel from the author of The Passage could hardly be more different in tone and setting from that acclaimed horror trilogy. The island of Prospera provides an idyllic existence for the fortunate inhabitants, who display no curiosity about the wider world and accept having no children as the price of immortality: in old age they are ferried to the "Nursery", from which they return, young again and memory-wiped, to start over. The reader is given plenty of hints that there's more to this reality than the characters believe, but there are 500 pages to go before the mind-boggling reveal. That's not the end: Cronin is far too good a writer to hang his compelling tale on a single twist. What lingers in the mind are not so much the turns of plot as the issues explored: about society, human nature, and above all what it means to live a good life.
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Time itself has weight. It bears upon the mind—every joy, every regret, every minute of every day adding to the total—until the system by which we sort and file the data (I like chocolate; it's Wednesday; my ward is named Proctor; my wife, Cynthia, tied an anchor to her ankle and threw herself into the sea) collapses in a cascade of confusion.
“Lex non requirit verificari quod apparet curiae.” He raises his eyebrows at me. “You don't follow?” “My Latin is a little rusty. Why don't you tell me?” He raises a finger and recites, “ ‘The law does not require that to be proved which is apparent to the court.' ”
There are seconds that aren't seconds, not at all. They open around us like the bellows of a great cosmic accordion; within lies an infinite expanse, or so it feels. It is within this space that revelations come, and mine is this: there's only one thing I can do to help my father now, something I have never done before. I kiss him on the forehead.
He puts down his brush and swivels on his stool to face her. It makes no difference to him, but people like to be looked at, even by a blind man.
“You know what your problem is?” “I'm guessing you're about to tell me.” “It's the same problem most people have, actually. You know a lot of things. You believe almost nothing.”
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia--where the truth isn't what it seems. Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. Then they retire themselves, embarking on a ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery, where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh. Proctor Bennett, of the Department of Social Contracts, has a satisfying career as a ferryman, gently shepherding people through the retirement process--and, when necessary, enforcing it. But all is not well with Proctor. For one thing, he's been dreaming--which is supposed to be impossible in Prospera. For another, his monitor percentage has begun to drop alarmingly fast. And then comes the day he is summoned to retire his own father, who gives him a disturbing and cryptic message before being wrestled onto the ferry. Meanwhile, something is stirring. The Support Staff, ordinary men and women who provide the labor to keep Prospera running, have begun to question their place in the social order. Unrest is building, and there are rumors spreading of a resistance group--known as "Arrivalists"--who may be fomenting revolution. Soon Proctor finds himself questioning everything he once believed, entangled with a much bigger cause than realized--and on a desperate mission to uncover the truth"--

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