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A carregar... Breathers: A Zombie's Lament (edição 2009)por S. G. Browne
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Liked it. Had a few moments where I thought it was a little all over the place but it did keep me completely involved in a zombie story in a way I never had before. ( ) Didn't do it for me. I gave up. I thought I just no longer had it in me to read light, unsophisticated fare -- but then I tore through half of [b:Fistful of Feet|6973833|Fistful of Feet|Jordan Krall|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1349088596s/6973833.jpg|7213935] in one sitting. No, Breathers just has that lackluster passive-male first-person narrative voice that I've across so much recently (Busy Monsters? Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England? Ready Player One? I've lost track of the others) and that just bores the hell out of me. I ditched on [b:Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children|9460487|Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #1)|Ransom Riggs|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1391229642s/9460487.jpg|14345371] for similar reasons (though largely because I hadn't realized it was a children's book when I started). I suppose I should be chucking an extra star at the book for how fully-realized the author's world is, but that's part of the problem: I felt like the author was describing the scenario to me as the ideas came to him. And really, any book I put down shouldn't get more than a star. Though, to be fair, a novel I won't finish is quite a feat, so maybe there's an award of sorts in there somewhere. Breathers is possibly the funniest book I've read to date. The way S. G. Browne times his jokes make the read marvelous. It leaves me wondering why I put it off for so long. It's not difficult to see the comparison to any civil rights movement - the narrator even brings it up himself. What makes this book great is that it's not your typical zombie book. The world isn't at the brink of apocalypse or even the dawn of the post-apocalyptic era. Zombies haven't overpowered humans. In fact, they've been around for centuries and kept in the shadows. Not until recent decades has their presence been acknowledged. And they're even treated the way people treated African-Americans and homosexuals - with fear and ignorance. The whole zombie civil rights idea aside, the book also judges the humanity of, well, humanity. By shining the light on innocence of children - "Is that true? Are zombies really human?" - to the shear hate of adulthood - "Go back to the grave!" - we're given insight on how outside forces mold our views on what is right and wrong, acceptable and what should be abhorred. It stay true with the Romero-philosophy, the sense that zombies should only bring to realization the way we handle social issues - war, racism, materialism, xenophobia, civil rights, etc. But Breathers also brings another aspect of the zombie evolution. The creatures aren't mindless. They are exact reflections of the people they once were. And the vampiric rejuvenation is a nice edition to the zombie mythos. It's the zombie book that will become canon, if not already.
It's a very zany Chris Moore-esque romp, which doesn't try too hard to make sense, or take itself too seriously. It gets more demented and crazy in the second half, when both the characters and the author let go of any last shreds of sensibility. It's at its strongest when it plunges into gruesome farce, with a healthy helping of undead slapstick. Pertence à Série da EditoraGallimard, Folio SF (495) Prémios
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HTML:For zombie aficionados everywhere, a hilarious debut novel about life (and love) after death. Meet Andy Warner, a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie. Resented by his parents, abandoned by his friends, and reviled by a society that no longer considers him human, Andy is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his new existence. But all that changes when he goes to an Undead Anonymous meeting and finds kindred souls in Rita, an impossibly sexy recent suicide with a taste for the formaldehyde in cosmetic products, and Jerry, a twenty-one-year-old car-crash victim with an exposed brain and a penchant for Renaissance pornography. When the group meets a rogue zombie who teaches them the joys of human flesh, things start to get messy, and Andy embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will take him from his casket to the SPCA to a media-driven class-action lawsuit on behalf of the rights of zombies everywhere. Darkly funny, surprisingly touching, and gory enough to satisfy even the most discerning reader, Breathers is a romantic zombie comedy (rom-zom-com, for short) that will leave you laughing, squirming, and clamoring for more. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers AlumS. G. Browne's book BREATHERS: A Zombie's Lament was available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Conversa de AutorS. G. Browne conversou com membros do LibraryThing de Sep 21, 2009 a Oct 2, 2009. Leia a conversa. Current DiscussionsNenhum(a)Capas populares
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