
Satin Island
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Narrated by:
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James Langton
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Tom McCarthy
Meet U. - a corporate anthropologist secreted in the basement of a large consultancy. U. spends his time toiling away at a great, epoch-defining public project that no one, least of all its own creators, understands. Besieged by data, confronted at every turn by the fact of his own redundancy, U. grows obsessed with the images - oil spills, Rollerbladers heading nowhere over streets that revolutionaries once tore up, zombies on parade - that the world and all its veil-like screens bombard him with on a daily basis. Is there a plot at work behind the veil? Is it buffering a portal to the technological divine? Who killed the parachutist in the news? And what's this got to do with South Pacific cargo cults? U.'s disconnected notes from underground in fact amount to an impassioned, integrated vision - of disintegration. Satin Island is a book that captures our out-of-joint times like no other.
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But dear Lord, just skip the sections when he writes dialogue. They hurt. They feel like I was dropped from some lush avant-garden to some backwoods, underwatered, status of woe. Cotton-mouthed, McCarthy writes conversations that would be better dressed in most YA fan fiction. OK. Perhaps, I've gone too far, but seriously, the dialogue needed a bit of work. Other than that, it was a good book and didn't scare me away from reading more of Tom McCarthy
A glossy weft surface but a dull warped back.
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intriguing story. well read
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Pynchon-esque
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Beautifully written a must read. I enjoyed
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I read this book on a rainy day in New York
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Paint dries at a more rapid and exciting pace than this book.
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McCarthy's main character is an anthropologist working for a fictional think tank that analyzes companies wishing to have some insight to an unknown future. His employer gives the anthropologist an assignment to write a paper that capsulizes the world's future based on an understanding of the past and known present.
McCarthy's story begins in Turin Italy with a brief explanation of the shroud of Turin which is alleged to have been wrapped around Jesus's body after crucifixion. The shroud could never have had the imprint of the remains of Jesus. The anthropologist notes it is proven fake because the shroud's fabric is manufactured centuries after Christ's crucifixion. The fake of the shroud is an inartful premonition to the course of the story.
The story ends with the death of the owner who hired the anthropologist. The irony of the story is that the anthropologist is widely acclaimed for his final report meant to tell the future of life when he knows his story is like the shroud of Turin. To this listener, there is too much intellectualism and not enough story. That may be why it did not win the Booker Prize. That is reason enough to me.
VACUITY
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