Such nuggets are hard to find amid the amplified, rock-'n-roll prose. The best effect is Williams's future version of a brain-scrambled vet: a dead buddy of Cowboy's whose scattered bits and pieces of computer memory now constitute a ragged semblance of a man. In both cases, it is a pose, a baroque nostalgia for Hemingway and film noir it only plays at nihilism, terror and despair. The story, though, is buried under an elaborate techno-punk style of the sort William Gibson popularized in Neuromancer. Ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, ""hardwired'' via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic hardware, teams up with Sarah, an equally cyborized gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals. FreeBookNotes has 9 more books by Walter Jon Williams, with a total of 26 study guides. If there is a SparkNotes, Shmoop, or Cliff Notes guide, we will have it listed here. It is set with acknowledgement in Roger Zelazny's Damnation Alley, when corporate Orbitals control what's left of a postwar America, now balkanized and armed to the teeth. Find all available study guides and summaries for Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams. After his thoughtful, elegant novel Knight Moves, Williams wrenchingly shifts gears for this heavy-metal adventure.
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A person's soul in the books exists as an animal companion called a daemon and it can change while a kid is a kid but adults animal daemons are fixed on one type of animal which is tied to whether they are good or bad. There is violence and scary themes of having your soul ripped from you. There's also alot of sexual tension in the later books as Lyra approaches puberty. But the bad morals are that it glorifies lying as a good thing and rewards Lyra by getting out of tight spots by lying. The good morals is that Lyra is a strong, brave, loyal friend who stands up for what needs to be done even though it puts her life in danger. The books have both good morals and bad morals. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Chain of thorns illumicrateBut reality intrudes when shocking news comes from home: Tatiana Blackthorn has escaped the Adamant Citadel, and London is under new threat by the Prince of Hell, Belial.Ĭordelia returns to a London riven by chaos and dissent. 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Please scroll away if you haven’t read this series, there are spoilers for the previous books ahead! If you haven’t yet picked up this series, you absolutely should, especially if you’re a vampire romance fan. It will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end, and I can honestly tell you, you’re going to be waiting eagerly for what will be coming next. There’s no doubt that the conclusion to the series was going to be full of drama and angst, but holy smokes…that was definitely an intense final ride. Add to this some division after the events of the last book, and you have yourself a major storm brewing, and not in the good way. This whole book just felt like one bad decision after another with our beloved teenagers getting thrown from one mess to the next without any recovery time. The conclusion to the Crave series by Tracy Wolff had me SCREAMING. The plot roughly goes as follows: A few years prior to the book, a virus broke out that rapidly infected all men and turned them into rabid, cancerous beasts whose only remaining drives are killing, eating and raping. Also, there will be spoilers for the entire thing.Ĭontent warnings: rape, violence against women, dismemberment, death by burning, misogynist language Obligatory disclaimer: While I made an effort to go into it with little knowledge and little bias, I had already heard of JKR's death and managed to remain unbiased roughly until the end of the first page, which is where the slurs start. If you've read it too, please chime in with anything I missed or you disagree on! And I figured I'd tell you about it so you can decide whether you want to do the same or not. Well, I like knowing what the "other side" is saying, so I went and read it. There has already been a fair bit of discussion about this book on here, notably because the author includes the violent death of Joanne K Rowling in it. The basic premise is that all men have turned into feral beasts, trans-identified men hunt those to get estrogen out of their testicles, and also there are "terfs" who want all trans-identified men dead - or something, their motivation is never quite clear. Most of you have probably heard of the book "Manhunt" by now. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Poverty by america desmondPersuading them to yield some of their entitlements is a lot harder. Getting affluent people to engage in rhetorical hand-wringing over inequality is easy enough. Yet Desmond’s own map of the entrenched ways we keep the disadvantaged down can’t help but raise doubts about how many converts he will persuade to join such a crusade. Desmond sometimes sounds less like a dispassionate social scientist than a missionary, convinced that the privileged can be moved to act if only they open their eyes and acknowledge how implicated they are in the suffering of the poor. 20 hours ago &0183 &32 That’s the question Desmond set out to answer in his new book, Poverty, by America. Desmond’s mission is to disabuse the better-off among us of the illusion that they are mere bystanders with their hands tied. Working in a very different register, Desmond instead offers a passionate and provocative argument fueled by his dismay about the extent of poverty in America-and by his dissatisfaction with conventional explanations for how little has changed. Unlike Evicted, which was grounded in years of fieldwork, Desmond’s new book contains little in the way of original ethnographic research and, though it has its share of startling statistics, lacks a vivid cast of characters. 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In the dead of night, the boys steal through town, and Charlie learns of Jasper’s horrible discovery.īurdened by a terrible secret and the weight of a town’s suspicion, Charlie feels his world closing in.Īfter this summer nothing will ever be the same again. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is intriguing. Late one night, thirteen-year-old Charlie Bucktin is startled by a knock on his window. I still didn’t read it back then but it leapt out at me when I was trying to find a book title with J for this month’s A-Z Challenge. I can’t even remember when or where I bought it, although I have a feeling that I wanted to read more Australian fiction while I waited for a new Tim Winton book to come out. Jasper Jones has been sitting on my bookshelf for a long time. In this third book in the series, Charlotte solves the murder of dear friend and eventual lover’s, Lord Ashburton Ingram’s, estranged wife, Lady Ingram. Thomas imagines Sherlock Holmes as Charlotte, a cross-dressing, fallen woman amidst the puritanical strictures of Victorian England, who uses her troubling powers of detection and frighteningly incisive intellect to solve convoluted mysteries full of dastardly nemeses and plots within plots. It never offered that romance punch of happiness and rightness, but it was a worthy read nonetheless.įor those unfamiliar with Thomas’s series, she sets up her Victorian female detective as a sly critique of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. It took me days and days to read Hollow, buffeted as I was by day-job issues. Have the first two on audio and once again, I’ve had to relearn that my ability to listen to audiobooks is severely limited. Use Logos’ language tools to go deeper into the Latin text with definitions, synonyms, and pronunciation tools for every word. 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