Drew Magary
Paperback | Pages: 369 pages Rating: 3.79 | 10249 Users | 1270 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Postmortal |
| ISBN: | 0143119826 (ISBN13: 9780143119821) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee for Best Novel (2012), Philip K. Dick Award Nominee (2012) |
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John Farrell is about to get "The Cure."Old age can never kill him now.
The only problem is, everything else still can...
Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and-after much political and moral debate-made available to people worldwide. Immortality, however, comes with its own unique problems-including evil green people, government euthanasia programs, a disturbing new religious cult, and other horrors.
Witty, eerie, and full of humanity, The Postmortal is an unforgettable thriller that envisions a pre-apocalyptic world so real that it is completely terrifying.
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| Title | : | The Postmortal |
| Author | : | Drew Magary |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 369 pages |
| Published | : | August 30th 2011 by Penguin Group USA |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fantasy |
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Ratings: 3.79 From 10249 Users | 1270 ReviewsAssessment Epithetical Books The Postmortal
***NO SPOILERS***Im reviewing this years after reading it, and I think it says something that I remember one thing and only one thing about it. That would be a scene in which the narrator, during sex with a prostitute, injects a serum of some sort into her buttock. Thats how silly this book is. The highest praise I can lavish upon it is that its readable, hence the two stars--I read it until the last stupid page.I really loved the first half of this novel. It was disturbing and absolutely divine the way it explored the whole issue of what happens after we cure old age:A whole world full of fledgling immortals and those people ideologically opposed to it, gradually realizing that the s**t is about to hit the fan when resources run out and we're all stuck with each other. :)It was delightful and often RATHER disturbing what we all got up to. And then our MC had his change. He became the End Specialist.I
I was expecting something funny and light, but The Postmortal turned out to be surprisingly serious and somewhat disturbing. I really enjoyed it, although the final section dragged a little and the stuff with Solara just didn't really work for me. The Solara storyline seemed like it came out of nowhere. The story of how the world copes with an ageless population was fascinating and some of my favorite parts of the book were the news articles and transcripts that didn't deal so much with John's
Re-read Feb 2018I often credit the End Specialist with being the book that got me back into reading, which sounds a bit odd when you take into account that it was a book I grabbed off the shelf of the library I'd been working in for a year and a half. It wasjust such a surprising breath of fresh, rancid air that it reignited my late teen love affair with reading and set me on the path to hipster reader wankerness that I've attained today.Chronicling the life of John Farrell, a blogging late-20's
There's a lot to really like about this book. Most reviews mention this book's ability to dismantle the concept of immortality down to its absolute bare bones and explore every possible negative outcome, and that is really true: Peter Pan babies! Cycle marriages! Meaninglessness of professional sports records! Birth date tattoos!What's funny is that the narrative device (the text is a blog kept by the narrator recovered at a later future date) reminded me a lot of The Handmaid's Tale. In
I'm out of book reviewing shape (among other kinds of shape), and it's hard to get back into the swing of things (if there ever was a swing). I always have a number of false starts when trying to write reviews. I usually start off with an idea for a review only to grow frustrated and switch into adjectival blabber. So after three false starts let's see if I can get this thing reviewed. What would happen to our world when the cure for aging, and thus dying of old age, is commonly available? Would
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