... correct analysis was one thing, but correct solutions were another, and the lack of the latter did not invalidate the former.

© Oryx and Crake

оттуда же:

He felt jerked around by his own dick, as if the rest of him was merely an inconsequential knob that happened to be attached to one end of it. May be the thingg would be happier if left to roam arond on his own.

Что-то Н.В. Гоголь вспоминается ... Опять же, may be everybody would have been happier this way, i am curious to know ...

еще:

... because he'd been too rough and fast and had not said anything flattering to her the way he usually did. Great ass and so on and so forth.

He shouldnt't have been so crabby. She was a fine woman with real tits and problems of her own.

и еще:

If you were ninety and you had a chance for one last fuck but you knew it would kill you, would you still do it?

читается нафик просто как Уэльбек. Эта компания просто писать не умеет. Да и сказать им нечего ...

Описание путешествия в pleebland с предварительной вакцинацией напомнило мне читанную в NYT много лет назад во вторничной секции коротких наблюдений и заметок читателей зарисовку:

A lady on the escalator going down at Port Authority, apparently coming from New Jersey, is saying to her small daughter, about 5 years old:

- Don't touch the handrail. dear.
- Why, mommy?
- Because everything is dirty here in New York.

Had he been a lunatic or an intellectually honorable man who'd thought things through to their logical conclusion? And was there any difference?

[Был ли он лунатик или интеллектуально честный человек, который видел вещи как они есть на самом деле, вплоть до логического завершения? И есть ли разница между тем и этим?]

В общем, зря я время потратил ... разве что последняя фраза. А в остальном - waste, полно клише, убогая фантазия у тетеньки. Дочитываю с трудом. Похоже, она дописывала тоже с трудом. Это ее не извиняет.

Из отзывов на amazon.com:

This book was recommended to me by an English major very close to graduating. I no longer talk to her.


"Cliched and unimaginative" - by Avidreader "hammonduk" (London, UK)

"A Hugely Disappointing Read" - by John Sheffield (England)

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