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Lexicon, English edition

A Novel
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
416 Seiten
Englisch
Penguin USerschienen am01.04.2014
"About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash." -Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King"Best thing I've read in a long time . . . a masterpiece." -Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of WoolStick and stones break bones. Words kill.They recruited Emily Ruff from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words.They'll live to regret it.They said Wil Parke survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember.Now they're after him and he doesn't know why.There's a word, they say. A word that kills.And they want it back . . .mehr
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Klappentext"About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash." -Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King"Best thing I've read in a long time . . . a masterpiece." -Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of WoolStick and stones break bones. Words kill.They recruited Emily Ruff from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words.They'll live to regret it.They said Wil Parke survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember.Now they're after him and he doesn't know why.There's a word, they say. A word that kills.And they want it back . . .
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-14-312542-6
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2014
Erscheinungsdatum01.04.2014
Seiten416 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht317 g
Artikel-Nr.30167486
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GenreSF/Fantasy TB
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A Time Top 10 Fiction Book of 2013An NPR Best Book of 2013A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2013A Goodreads Best Book of 2013An iTunes Best Science Fiction Book of 2013An IndieNext Great Reads Pick July 2013A New York Times Summer Beach ReadAn Amazon Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Pick June 2013A Best of June iBookstore PickA Time What to Read Now PickA Vogue Best Summer Mystery ReadA Huffington Post Best Book of Summer 2013A Salon Summer s Best ReadA Hollywood Reporter Buzzy Books for Hollywood s Reading List SelectionA Pittsburgh Post Gazette Beach ReadA Kirkus Reviews Ten Best Novels for Summer Reading 2013ÿEvery story written ismarks upon a pageThe same marks,repeated, onlydifferently arranged[I]Now when Ra, the greatest of the gods, was created, his father had given him a secret name, so awful that no man dared to seek for it, and so pregnant with power that all the other gods desired to know and possess it too. F. H. BROOKSBANK, The Story of Ra and Isis[ONE] He s coming around. Their eyes always do that. The world was blurry. There was a pressure in his right eye. He said, Urk. Fuck! Get the It s too late, forget it. Take it out. It s not too late. Hold him. A shape grew in his vision. He smelled alcohol and stale urine. Wil? Can you hear me? He reached for his face, to brush away whatever was pressing there. Get his Fingers closed around his wrist. Wil, it s important that you not touch your face. Why is he conscious? I don t know. You fucked something up. I didn t. Give me that. A rustling. He said, Hnnn. Hnnnn. Stop moving. He felt breath in his ear, hot and intimate. There is a needle in your eyeball. Do not move. He did not move. Something trilled, something electronic. Ah, shit, shit. What? They re here. Already? Two of them, it says. We have to go. I m already in. You can t do it while he s conscious. You ll fry his brain. I probably won t. He said, Pubbaleeese doo nut kill mee. An unsnapping of clasps. I m doing it. You can t do it while he s conscious, and we re out of time, and he probably isn t even the guy. If you re not helping, move out of the way. Wil said, Iÿ.ÿ.ÿ. needÿ.ÿ.ÿ. toÿ.ÿ.ÿ. sneeze. Sneezing would be a bad move at this point, Wil. Weight descended on his chest. His vision darkened. His eyeball moved slightly. This may hurt. A snick. A low electronic whine. A rail spike drove into his brain. He screamed. You re toasting him. You re okay, Wil. You re okay. He sÿ.ÿ.ÿ. aw, he s bleeding from his eye. Wil, I need you to answer a few questions. It s important that you answer truthfully. Do you understand? No no no First question. Would you dmehr
Kritik
A New York Times Summer Beach Read
An Amazon Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Pick June 2013
A Best of June iBookstore Pick
A Time Magazine "What to Read Now" Pick
A Huffington Post Best Book of Summer 2013
A Salon "Summer's Best Reads"
A Hollywood Reporter "Buzzy Books for Hollywood's Reading List"
A Pittsburgh Post Gazette Beach Read
A Kirkus Ten Best Novels for Summer Reading 2013

"A dark, dystopic grabber in which words are treated as weapons, and the villainous types have literary figures' names. Plath, Yeats, Eliot and Woolf all figure in this ambitious, linguistics-minded work of futurism."
-Janet Maslin, New York Times

"Imagine, if you will, a secret group of people called Poets who have the power to control others simply by speaking to them. Barry has, and the result is an extraordinarily fast, funny, cerebral thriller."
-Time Magazine

"Imagine blending the works of Neal Stephenson with Michael Chabon and the end result would come close to the world envisioned by Barry. The words brilliant and exemplary aren't adequate enough to convey the amazing craft of Lexicon."
-Associated Press

"A clever blend of sci-fi and thriller, with touches of romance and humor... persuaded me anew that words are, indeed, the bomb."
-Dallas Morning News

"It's a pitch-perfect thriller, a jetpack of a plot that rocketed me from page one to page 400 in a single afternoon, and it kept me guessing right up to the end. Imagine Dan Brown written by someone a lot smarter and better at characterization and at hand-waving the places where the science shades into science fiction, and you've got something like Lexicon."
-Cory Doctorow, Boingboing.net

"[A] speedy, clever, dialogue-rich thriller."
-Salon

"A crazily inventive conspiracy thriller."
-io9.com

"Brazen and brilliant"
-The Wichita Eagle

"Mind-bending... an action novel that nicely exercises the brain as well as the heart rate."
-Shelf Awareness

"A large helping of both action and thought... anyone who knows 1984 will remember the fanger of allowing people to love each other-but Barry handles it with skill."
-Infodad.com

"An absolutely first-rate, suspenseful thriller with convincing characters who invite readers' empathy and keep them turning pages until the satisfying conclusion."
-Booklist (starred)

"A scary and satisfying blend of thriller, dystopia, and horror."
-Library Journal

"An up-all-night thriller for freaks and geeks who want to see their wizards all grown up in the real world and armed to the teeth in a bloody story."
-Kirkus (starred)

"[An] ambitious satirical thriller... amuses as much as it shocks."
-Publishers Weekly

"The sort of thriller that pricks real-world anxieties about privacy and coercion while rushing on with an outlandish clockwork plot. Lexicon's clockwork is excellent, too: The book succeeds largely through Barry's skill in managing his reader and his plot, suspending disbelief by intercutting a pair of storylines until they inevitably intersect. He always chooses immersion over exposition, letting his reader feel his way through the Chomskian mix of surveillance-society paranoia and linguistic geekiness."
-Philadelphia City Paper

"I bid you, read this book... Not that much of anything is certain in this blistering literary thriller. Lexicon twists and turns like a lost language, creating tension and expectations, systematically suggesting and then severing connections."
-Tor.com

"About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash."
-Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King

"Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor."
-Chris Pavone, Newmehr