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The Dewey Decimal System (2011)

by Nathan Larson(Favorite Author)

3.16 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1617750107 (ISBN13: 9781617750106)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Akashic Books

review 1: Dystopian adult fiction. The main character has little memory of his past and currently lives in the main branch of the NYPL. Some sort of terrorist event has taken place in NY on 2/14 of an unknown year. It is definately no longer the NY we know -- all the bridges are destroyed, only city workers with ID allowed on the subway, lots of gangster-type characters. Main character is known as Dewey Decimal because he lives in the library and is trying to reorganize it. This is only mentioned in the story though. The plot mainly revolves around his activities as a hit man, but with a conscience (along the lines of Dexter maybe?) The "Dewey Decimal System" of the title refers to the main character's set of rules (or system) for daily life (ex. only make left turns in the morning)... more rather than the dewey decimal system used to organize books in the library. Just OK.
review 2: I wanted badly to love this book, but I couldn't get through it. I thought the dialogue was really, really forced, and when "the plot thickened," I just couldn't go with it. Worse, though: the book is first person-narrated by our hero, and sometimes - too much of the time - it's terribly cheesy, (again) forced, and just plain poorly written. The plot sounds really awesome on the back of the book, but either I didn't read far enough or the publisher is playing up something that's mentioned but did not seem like a crucial point to sell books to people like me, who would not normally buy a detective-ish, dystopian thing (although I like dystopian stuff, I don't read much of it). i almost never do this (put a book down with the intention of NOT picking it back up at some time in the future), but I think I'm doing that with this book. I feel terrible. less

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