The Demolished Man

Bookian — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:31:17 +0000

Alfred Bester… a hard-sf writer buried in the body of a florid linguistic dandy. The Demolished Man is one of Besters best known novels, and for anyone who appreciates the density of the Media environment in which humanity finds itself trapped in increasingly smaller concentricitys, a candy store of novelistic complication. Highly psychological, but overlaid with an artifice that seems to be the end result of putting technology into the interface between individual organic thalamaic response nodes. If you know what I mean. – reviewed by demolished

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Bookian — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:19:17 +0000

This is an excellent book by Pynchon, in the true Steinbeck vein. Nobody has been able to put on paper a truer manifestation of life in California from the 60s to the 80s. Its the best of fictional politics insofar as politics are a fiction designed by people pretending to be non fiction. The writing is the most normal ive read of Pynchon, which is normally a drawback, but in this case the reversal makes it seem so much more true. The characters and the military industrial politico complex is described truthfully and factually. You may notice the preponderance of the word Truth here, and unlike Truthiness, it is used truely. True dat. Excellent. – reviewed by nsa cia fbi

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The Demolished Man

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