Books by Max Barry
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review 1: It took me a while really to get into this book but ultimately I quite enjoyed it. The study/teaching of persuasion and learning the power that words have over peoples' actions has not been explored in quite this way before. Now that it's over, I'm sorry there isn't more, but, af...
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review 1: This was a satisfying book. On the one hand, it is mostly an exercise in absurdity---the main character loses a leg in an accident, and, being a brilliant scientist/engineer with no life and no social skills, he builds the perfect prosthetic, which leads to "Accidently" removing...
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review 1: Книга, которая до половины вызывает подлинный восторг. Первый абзац у нее, что надо. Скучный, не слишком эмоциональный и разносторонний инженер теряет ногу, затем поражается убожеству протезов - и делает свой собственный, да такой крутой, что дисбаланс между конечностями его напр...