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Los Recolectores De Suicidas / The Suicide Collectors (2011)

by David Oppegaard(Favorite Author)

3.23 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8498006481 (ISBN13: 9788498006483)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

La Factoria De Ideas

review 1: Minor SpoilersI chose this book because I was intrigued by the idea of Apocalypse by mass suicide and continued to find the world very interesting. I was immediately put off by several things, however, the primarily one being the outrageously illogical decisions made by characters at almost every point in the plot. The worst example of this came early in the story, when the main characters began their trek across the entire lawless, death-ravaged United States by purposefully choosing to not take along any weapons. The overall character motivation was poorly developed. I did like the characters, in general, but found that I understood the minor characters (Zero and Pops) much better than I did Norman, in spite of the internal dialogue and flashbacks that were part of his... more narration. I was very intrigued by the various groups of people our characters encountered during their journey, but the interactions themselves were so easily entered into and escaped from, that their importance to the plot seemed minor, at best.While I'm not opposed to the unresolved nature of the ending, I did find the ongoing and complete mystery surrounding the Collectors very bothering, mostly because there didn't seem to be any environment of questioning or resistance from any character other than Norman's actions at the very beginning. I understand that this is supposed to be because the bulk of the population is depressed and suicidal, and therefore disengaged from their surroundings, but our main characters and many of the people they meet along the way should have been the exceptions.Also the logistics of the "Suicide Collector's" actual task was so shallowly explained that it never left the realm of "far-fetched" in my mind.So, very interesting concept, but this ended up feeling more like the half developed outline of a great epic adventure, and not a full story.Audiobook ReviewPublished by Books on Tape; Read by Robertson DeanI found Mr. Dean's reading to be equally ominous and hypnotic. Ominous, which was a very nice complement to the tone of the book. Hypnotic, in a way that nearly put me to sleep in a few of the less riveting sections.
review 2: When I grabbed this book off a shelf, I thought the premise was intriguing. What is the Despair? Why is it plaguing humanity? Who are the Collectors? WHAT are they? Why is it bad if they remove the bodies?The writing was good, it made me want to keep reading. The descriptions were enough to paint a picture, but they weren't overdone and tiring. Initially I liked that the author let his readers figure things out on their own and didn't give everything away. By the end of the story, I had plenty of questions that I wish he would have attempted to answer. I appreciated that it wasn't completely predictable, but was left a little underwhelmed by the lack of clear resolutions and answers.This book was depressing, but sometimes you need a good, depressing book that makes you think about humanity. I wanted to know what was going to become of people in general in the future. Were they still going to spiral downward, or was there hope? We know what happens with the Source in the end, but what does that even mean? A hint might have been nice. less

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