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The Blue Light Project (2011)

by Timothy Taylor(Favorite Author)

3.04 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0307399303 (ISBN13: 9780307399304)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Knopf Canada

review 1: I could pick up on the author's points regarding degradation of society in the mass media craze. The story i had a difficult time following. It was like waking up in the middle of the night buzzed on NyQuil and finding a movie on Sci Fi channel. Another reviewer already beat me to that analogy. As much as I found this story strange and difficult, I couldn't seem to get myself to just stop reading. Not because I make myself finish, but there really was still some engagement with the story.
review 2: I finished this book and liked it until the very end. I just don't get it. It's one of those odd kind of books that would make a movie that you watch at 2AM one morning when you can't sleep then talk about for years afterward as that "movie you watched at 2AM." ... moreIt seems to be about this hostage taking event at a children's TV show. The reason for that is very unclear and not really explained later in the book. Then these stories begin to emerge about one woman who used to be an olympic athlete and had a great story to tell, someone named "Rabbit" who is a visual artist, and a demoralized journalist. Lots of twists and turns as they go about their lives in light of the hostage taking. It was a hard read because of the different character voices and got harder when a new character was added but an interesting story once I got the hang of the characters. I have to admit speed reading through one of the characters, he wasn't particularly interesting so I may have missed something important that would have helped out the ending a bit more. No, I won't read it again to figure that out. less

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