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“All time favourite! ”
Dennis M wrote this review Tuesday, August 25 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Disappointing - Ballard is a million times better”
Aidan C wrote this review Sunday, July 5 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“remarkable story”
Derek G wrote this review Saturday, June 13 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
0 of 1 members found this review helpful“I do like the book. I hope the film based on it will not see the light - soon.”
Agnes B wrote this review Saturday, August 30 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No1 of 1 members found this review helpful“boo. lots of extraneous crap in the form of social commentary that was not only way over my head but pretty uninteresting. Just enough going on to keep me reading. Wish I hadn't.”
david d wrote this review Monday, May 26 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This may just be my favourite novel of all time. I remember that I finished this one in the middle of the night, and then I just couldn't sleep. I had to write something down, it seemed very important and carying the potential of something deeply changing in my own thinking. In any way people might read this, I don't think it's possible to just leave it without feeling affected and somewhat changed by it. And then as a side note: Houellebecq combines close to everything that I like intellectually: philosophy, psychology, sociology, evolutionary biology and psychology, futuristic fantasies, sex, in-yer-face-attitude and polemic writing.”
Malte R wrote this review Tuesday, December 11 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“in process - not sure yet. Came highly recommended, but I'm finding the hyper-masculinity a little hard to swallow, as it were. I can get down with cynical offense, but the narrative has yet to grab me. Still, if it's supposed to be better than Oryx and Crake, I'm gonna give it a try.”
Majero B wrote this review Wednesday, November 21 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Houellebecq's novel is an another link in his chain of highly controversial, and enjoyable novels. Although I'm not really that much into S/F(and this book seems to be just that), there are many cool quotes I have drawn from it. Or as some music critics would say, the album sucks but the singles are great. I love cynical authors, and Houellebecq is the king of cynics. ”
Mirko B wrote this review Sunday, November 18 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Written in first person by a brilliant, flawed protagonist. Reminded me a lot of Lolita. Highly recommended.”
kallis707 wrote this review Thursday, September 20 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“The title of this book is more intriguing than the storyf.
Patterson wrote this review Wednesday, August 1 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The idea behind the story is original: the 25th and 26th clone in a line of Daniel-clones are reading and commenting on the lifestory of the orginial Daniel. But (in my humble opinion) the description of the lives of these clones is not very credible. The book has a very depressing view on the future of mankind.
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