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The End Specialist (2011)

by Drew Magary(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0007429088 (ISBN13: 9780007429080)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Harper Voyager

review 1: I blew through the first part of this book in one sitting and it was truly marvelous. The basic concept truly interests me since I see death as an outcome of as yet uncured disease rather than the natural course of life. But then something happened in this book, I noticed it was a dystopian view of the future and I became upset with the author's view. Why does the future have to be filled with so much evilness? I became frustrated because I wanted to read a book about how humanity triumphs over it's limitations, not how humanity gets itself into yet another prison. The characters go from one horrible event to another, outlining how horrible the world is. Once I read the book, I agreed with it, this is probably what it will become. Rich will live great satisfying liv... morees while the poor suffer in utter misery. Just the way it is now. Nothing will change in effect, same as it was a thousand years as it is today, as it will be a hundred years from now. This seems to be how humanity insists on living for some stupid reason. The author properly explains this phenomenon and puts us in our place technologically.
review 2: If you could suspend aging and live out the rest of eternity at the age you are now - would you? Consider the fact that you will be immortal, not invincible. You can still get cancer or die with the pull of a trigger. As Magary writes - "What this cure guarantees is that you will never die a natural, peaceful death." It is 2016 and a cure for aging has been invented. It is an illegal cure until several terrorist attacks on cure doctors around the nation and various other protests forces the legislation's hand. Via a series of blog-like posts written by a man named John Farrell, Drew Magary all too realistically describes just what a cure for aging might mean for the citizens of this world. From changes in healthcare benefits to the legalization of the death penalty for crimes other than murder. Cycle marriages that guarantee you don't have to spend eternity with your spouse if you don't want to. Complete annihilation of natural resources. Overpopulation which leads to government sanctioned assisted suicide. And government sanctioned genocide of the elderly. America as a third world nation. It's a near future that almost seems ... inevitable. less

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