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Saptırıcılar (2014)

by Thomas Mullen(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: I thought this was a pretty good book. I absolutely loved the concept of it which is why I got it. Time travel secret agents? Sign me up! I thought some of the story was rather farfetched, aside from the time travel, but still a thought-provoking book with interesting ideas on time travel and history. I thought the author did a great job with reminding the reader of how foreign the present is to the main character from the future, Zed. It really helped establish just how different the future in this book is.
review 2: i'm trying to figure out why i found this book kind of... boring.it's an interesting setup: guy from the future comes back to present-day Washington D.C. with a mission to make sure that certain events leading to a cataclysm continue to happen. ou... morer protag, Z., is sort of like a spook doing a nasty bit of wetwork for a good cause. or so he believes.our contemporary characters, Tasha, Leo, and Sari, are all folk mixed up in things they really don't understand, but which all lead back to Z.until we find out that Z. also may not actually know what's happening...the characters are all decently-drawn enough, each with their own desires and skeletons in the closet. but i found it quite impossible to actually warm to any of them. they somehow felt flat to me.and the plot, which gets murky from time to time, with the left hand not knowing whose hand wields the gun-with-silencer, moves along at a respectable clip. occasional forays into polemic or philosophy can be skimmed, since they don't strike me as particularly deep. Mullen's themes are intriguing--do we know how much we are truly free agents? what are we allowing, through inattention, our government to get away with? why are corporations increasingly quasi-government agencies, and what does Blackwater mean, anyway? yet i feel the themes were all on the surface--they didn't play out in the characters' actions.in total, i guess the flatness of the characters, the muddle of the plot, and the disconnection of the themes from the bones of the story just leave me feeling rather like i'd just read a political screed warmed over and served as a novel. less

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