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Next comes the entire, tensely compressed life story of Rosa, a rural beach beauty turned big-city physician. Rosa is tormented by memories of her first love at 16, a man who comes crashing back into her life. In the last section, Sean and Don Pepe's thugs literally crash into her life, along with the book's third star duo, tough street kids Cente and Totoy. The Tesseract's vivid images and breakneck chases make it unsurprising to learn that Garland started out as a comic-book author, though his second novel really bears comparison with Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers. --Tim Appelo --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
There was no bright color in the room. Read the first page
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1.0 out of 5 stars
A disappointment, to say the least,
This review is from: The Tesseract (Paperback)
The book starts off with suspense and promise. However, this suspense and promise fades quickly when Garland starts to shift the focus of the book to different story lines, forcing the book to lose its momentum. It becomes annoying when the reader is in the grips of something interesting, and the author completely changes the pace of the book by introducing new characters with new story lines. His attempt to interweave the 3 different plots in the end falls short of all expectations. Unlike the three well thought out story lines in "The Hours" (by Michael Cunningham) which coalesce into a coherent and fascinating whole, the stories here simply do not have the depth to form something greater in the end. I really couldn't be bothered by the end to keep track of all the characters, nor could I care about their fates, and I skimmed the last part of the book to find out what happened. I would not recommend this book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
I don't read many books but this was quite enjoyable,
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This review is from: The Tesseract (Paperback)
I've been obsessed with the movie The Beach. Every time I watch it, it climbs my favorite movie ladder(which it is now in the top 10). So I decided to (gasp) read the book The Beach to see what all was different from the movie. Sadly my library only had The Tesseract by Alex Garland, so no Beach for me. While I don't read many books, The Tesseract held my attention and was a fun read. The book is simply brilliant, as others have said. This is what I got out of the book: It tackles the issue of time or the 4th dimension something that we as 3 dimensional beings can never really see happening nor control. Whether it be someone who has gotten themself into a bad situation, someone who has loved, or someone who has forgotten the past, time is what none of these people could predict. Much like they could not predict how they would end up spending time together themselves. What we end up with is a group of 3-dimensional people who are haunted by time. And by doing so only look at the next step up, the 4th dimension, but never understanding it as a whole. And with this comes a sense of godlessness that if humans are struggling to comprehend what's behind time, how could they ever comprehend god or some higher dimension in life or the hereafter? The end result is a group of people who at most can only comprehend their view of actions that take place, who never have the full story, who can only make their daily lives less complex but never more. A book through 3 different stories that shows the limits of humanity. Everyone should read The Tesseract.
5.0 out of 5 stars
4 dimensional - incredible,
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This review is from: The Tesseract (Paperback)
This book will inspire the unthinking to think and the unfeeling to feel. An amazingly deep story - tied together in ways you cant even imagine in 3-d.
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