Book Review - K-PAX
Boy was I shocked to shit to find this little gem sitting on the shelf in the used paperback store! I was totally enraptured by the movie, and had absolutely NO idea that this was originally a book... it happens to me all the time... I instantly seized the volume and anxiously piled it amongst the rest of my selections (more reviews to come)
The book is wonderfully written, smooth and flowing. It was compared to One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest because of the asylum setting and Starman because of the theme of an alien intelligence residing in a human corporeal. I disagree on both levels. Gene Brewer's writing style is very much like H.G. Wells in its ability to explain intense knowledge with utter simplicity - a fourth grader could read this book with ease. The references to alternatively-connecting knowledge focused around extra-terrestrial intelligence reminds me of Carl Sagan (it's a nice segue into Contact, which I am listening to on tape in my car). prot's confidence and sometimes downright arrogance uplifts and enlightens the world around him and gives reasonable hope to the reader that all things are possible. Any geek worth his salt should read this book. I'm waiting a while before reading the sequel, On a Beam of Light to establish a temporal distancing effect for myself between prot's departure and supposed return in "five or four years."
Boy was I shocked to shit to find this little gem sitting on the shelf in the used paperback store! I was totally enraptured by the movie, and had absolutely NO idea that this was originally a book... it happens to me all the time... I instantly seized the volume and anxiously piled it amongst the rest of my selections (more reviews to come)
The book is wonderfully written, smooth and flowing. It was compared to One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest because of the asylum setting and Starman because of the theme of an alien intelligence residing in a human corporeal. I disagree on both levels. Gene Brewer's writing style is very much like H.G. Wells in its ability to explain intense knowledge with utter simplicity - a fourth grader could read this book with ease. The references to alternatively-connecting knowledge focused around extra-terrestrial intelligence reminds me of Carl Sagan (it's a nice segue into Contact, which I am listening to on tape in my car). prot's confidence and sometimes downright arrogance uplifts and enlightens the world around him and gives reasonable hope to the reader that all things are possible. Any geek worth his salt should read this book. I'm waiting a while before reading the sequel, On a Beam of Light to establish a temporal distancing effect for myself between prot's departure and supposed return in "five or four years."
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