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A carregar... South Pole Station: A Novel (edição 2017)por Ashley Shelby (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I agree with another reviewer---there was so much detail to give you a mental picture of the South Pole that it IS hard to believe the author wasn't actually THERE for some period of time. I was listening to the CD---while I was raking---and the CD was over before my raking is finished---good story for a project---but it almost made me colder than the weather I was raking in!! I liked the whole climate discussion --- we need so much more emphasis on the whole problem so it was great that the author handled it so well, even in a novel. While I enjoyed the core story line and the writing, this book was just too cluttered with tangential material. There are long sections detailing backstory of certain characters that distracted from the main story. Without this, the book would have been 4⭐️s for me. It was a great look at life at South Pole and a critic of the politicization of science. Cooper is unmoored--her family faced the tragic suicide of her twin and she is in a field that is difficult to be successful at overnight. Cooper's father, Bill Gosling, practically raised them on bedtime stories involving the various expeditions to the Antarctic region. So much so, those were some of the games the siblings played as children. When an opportunity arrives in the form of an artist in residence post from the National Science Federation, Cooper jumps at the chance to endure the rigorous training and eventually wind up in Antarctica. It's not too surprising that there is a diverse group populating the South Pole Station. Some of the narrative moves between them and the overall scientific community. The addition of a climate change denier drives a good portion of the book, as the scientitists and other members of the community go head to head. There was a lot of information about the base and life on that base. It was very vivid, I had trouble believing the author hadn't spent time there as well. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
" Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career as a painter. So she applies to the National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Program and flees to Antarctica -- the bottom of the Earth -- where she encounters a group of misfits motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. There's Pearl, the cook whose Carrot Mushroom Loaf becomes means toward her Machiavellian ambitions; the oxymoronic Sal (he is an attractive astrophysicist); and Tucker, the only gay black man on the continent who, as station manager, casts a watchful eye on all. The only thing they have in common is the conviction that they don't belong anywhere else. Enter Frank Pavano -- a climatologist with unorthodox beliefs. His presence will rattle this already unbalanced community, bringing Cooper and the Polies to the center of a global controversy and threatening the 800-million-year-old ice chip they call home. In the tradition of And Then We Came to the End and Where'd You Go Bernadette?, South Pole Station is a warmhearted comedy of errors set in the world's harshest place. "-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The story dragged. The characters were interesting but way too much backstory at random times throughout. And the author settled down after awhile, but the overuse of complicated words that added nothing to the story was disruptive to the plot development.
I appreciated the theme and the overall goal of the story, that science should be inclusive as long as it's good science, and not all good science produces definitive proof, but even the theme was treated with too much high-brow arrogance. ( )