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Una favola politica sull'assurdità della guerra, un'opera di fantascienza sarcastica sui pro e i contro dell'Apocalisse, un thriller imbottito di cospirazioni, guerrieri ninja e cani cannibali, un horror alla Lovecraft sul nostro futuro (e non così remoto). La trama: le Bombe Svuotanti hanno cancellato intere zone dalla faccia della Terra. In questo scenario, un mercenario senza nome e il suo eroico compare, Gonzo Lubitsch, accompagnati da una ciurma di guerrieri mal assortita e rotta a ogni esperienza, hanno nelle loro mani il destino dell'umanità. Una slavina di cambi di registro, digressioni e divertissement, maneggiati attraverso una lingua capace di ridere e di far pensare, danno forma a un'odissea nella tradizione del miglior Kurt Vonnegut.
- ISBN: 8834920015
- Casa Editrice: 451
- Pagine: 588
- Data di uscita: 14-07-2021
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One of the most bizarre and uncomfortable things in the world: being asked to rate one's own book. I'm giving it five stars out of love. I accept that you might differ :)
DAG. Nick Harkaway is well into his third pint and his eleventh story when he looks around and realizes he's got half the bar hanging on his every word, and THAT's when he leans back a little, stretches his legs, and gives you a three-page backstory on a minor idiot whose chief role in the book is g Leggi tutto
Kurt Vonnegut Jr! T. Coraghessan Boyle! Joseph Heller (maybe)! Tom Robbins! and now it appears that Nick Harkaway can be added to the list of humanistic, cynical, insanely creative authors who truck in wild & wooly tales that blur the boundaries between reality & fantasy and are filled with enormous Leggi tutto
I was initially excited to read this book because I love post-apocalyptic fiction and because the first reviewers of the book seemed to think it was a wonderful work of fiction. The publishers gave Harkaway a little over $535,000 to write the book, so I was hoping that there was a reason for it othe Leggi tutto
dear jasmine, you and i are so diametrically opposed in all things literary. i swear i am not rating this on the lower side just to retaliate for your not loving winshaw legacy . if the truth be told, it's higher than a three, but i feel like i give out a lot of fours, and i think i may have failed th Leggi tutto
Everyone should read this book. It is extremely enjoyable and amazing. Harkaway writes the heck out of this book. I can't really explain to you what this is about. That would be very difficult. It is a combination of the movies: The Expendables (franchise) Shogun Assassin V for Vendetta Real Genius Fast Leggi tutto
I read about 35% of this last fall and had to take a break. The writing is extremely overwrought and the story (if there is one) meanders so much, I just never got into it. But most of the reviews on here are raves, and it felt like just maybe there's a payoff somewhere, like at some point the story Leggi tutto
Describing a Nick Harkaway novel is very tricky. A lot of what makes it great can’t really be discussed for fear of spoiling it for those adventurous enough to pick them up, as Mr. Harkaway is very talented when it comes to writing whimsically convoluted plots where every little element turns out of Leggi tutto
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