Published April 20, 2009
Summary on Goodreads
Review:
Definitely
a crazy book. The last few pages pretty
much shocked me like no other mainly because I went in with assumptions and
realized that Bernard, the author, pretty much blew all of my assumption out of
the water. I just can’t believe the
ending and the realization that Anax faced as well as anything else really.
The book
definitely started out a little slow and it was very wordy. It certainly was not a book where you can
simply gloss over the paragraphs but you really had to read each sentence, each
word, very carefully otherwise you will miss hints that are scattered
throughout. However, the book was also
very short. To be honest, I considered
putting the book down at one point because I just wanted to get to the climax
or the action, really. But once the book
entered the dialogue between Adam and Art, I started to really get into
it. It was fascinating to read the
exchange between the two – man and machine.
At the same, though, I was curious to know why exactly they were
imprisoned together. I understood why
Adam was imprisoned because that was explained but not for Art. And apparently they spent years together in
the same jail room.
Another
interesting facet was towards the end when they – Adam and Art – plotted their
escape and that realization was particularly fascinating. I couldn’t believe what happened and it
really made me question stuff about life.
Is man really more powerful than a machine? Normally I would say yes because man is needed
to create the machine but at the same time, clearly machines are more powerful than
man as seen by computers and similar gadgets we have now. So it’s a lot of information to mull over and
consider.
The ending
was definitely the craziest aspect of the book.
I still can’t believe who, or what, Anax and the rest of the “people”
were. Not to mention, the truth of the
actual examination and why it’s there and how it affects Anax’s future. The ending was also very abrupt but it was an
abruptness that made sense as opposed to some other books where the ending is
simply cut off for no reason. There is
most definitely a reason as to why this ending was cut off.
Overall,
I found this book intriguing and it certainly made me think a lot. However, due to the wordiness, the pace of
the book and the lack of character development since a lot of the context was
either the exchange between Adam and Art or the interview between the examiners
and Anax, I can’t stay that I particularly liked the book too much. It was basically a book that reminded me of philosophy
that was somehow concise and put into a YA book.
Rating:
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