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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
Actually couldn’t finish reading it can’t lie I got
Bored 2 chapters in
Bored 2 chapters in
Clever and moving.
If only all those people who believe that they are superior to all other animals could read this and realise how we make them suffer and what we do to each other,and even our planet...
If only all those people who believe that they are superior to all other animals could read this and realise how we make them suffer and what we do to each other,and even our planet...
A book "written" by an orca?!? It shouldn't work but it does.
Who better to reflect the idiocy of man than Zindell's newest creation Arjuna. Not only is he a truly believable character but he leaves you pondering your purpose (both as an individual and a species).
The best parts of Arjuna's story follow him as he travels the waters of our shared planet Ocean (for we are presumptuous to call it Earth). Zindell paints such pictures with his words that you could be swimming alongside these magnificent creatures, listening as they sing their rhapsodies.
I was originally loath to read it as I feared it would be a somewhat silly story (I detest anthropomorphism) but it sucked me in and blew me away. I didn't want it to end but end it did, and well. Closed, yet open, complete but unfulfilled.
Zindell wrote my favourite book, Neverness, and the Idiot Gods is almost an updated version of this. Arjuna, like Mallory Ringess, discovers the beauty of mathematics and the poetry of life. They both explore the outer limits of their universes in an attempt to understand the complexities of man and, ultimately, god(s).
I loved this book, not quite as much as Neverness but enough to know that I will revisit it and recommend it to like-minded readers.
Who better to reflect the idiocy of man than Zindell's newest creation Arjuna. Not only is he a truly believable character but he leaves you pondering your purpose (both as an individual and a species).
The best parts of Arjuna's story follow him as he travels the waters of our shared planet Ocean (for we are presumptuous to call it Earth). Zindell paints such pictures with his words that you could be swimming alongside these magnificent creatures, listening as they sing their rhapsodies.
I was originally loath to read it as I feared it would be a somewhat silly story (I detest anthropomorphism) but it sucked me in and blew me away. I didn't want it to end but end it did, and well. Closed, yet open, complete but unfulfilled.
Zindell wrote my favourite book, Neverness, and the Idiot Gods is almost an updated version of this. Arjuna, like Mallory Ringess, discovers the beauty of mathematics and the poetry of life. They both explore the outer limits of their universes in an attempt to understand the complexities of man and, ultimately, god(s).
I loved this book, not quite as much as Neverness but enough to know that I will revisit it and recommend it to like-minded readers.
An interesting book to say the least. It's not often you read a full novel from the viewpoint of an orca.
The book is basically divided up into 3 parts. The first third deals with the main character traveling with his family, and describing the life of a whale, leading up to the point where he first comes into contact with humans.
The second half deal with his interactions with various humans, and the consequences of this. This is where the book starts to drag, and where it gets super preachy. I won't lie; I almost quit at this part.
The third part deals with how the main character & what he wants to do to humans due to the consequences he suffered earlier. Unfortunately the beginning of the book gives away the end, so it didn't come as a complete surprise. Not a book I'm going to reread, but I'd definitely recommend people reading it at least once.
The book is basically divided up into 3 parts. The first third deals with the main character traveling with his family, and describing the life of a whale, leading up to the point where he first comes into contact with humans.
The second half deal with his interactions with various humans, and the consequences of this. This is where the book starts to drag, and where it gets super preachy. I won't lie; I almost quit at this part.
The third part deals with how the main character & what he wants to do to humans due to the consequences he suffered earlier. Unfortunately the beginning of the book gives away the end, so it didn't come as a complete surprise. Not a book I'm going to reread, but I'd definitely recommend people reading it at least once.
I was struggling with this book about half way through but I wanted to get to end and it is worth it. It's a strange book, many people should read to realise what we are doing to the planet, more philosophical than I expected too
A scathing and honest look at the human species, and a philosophical ideal of how we could live better lives within the world, rather than against it. This book may come across as on-the-nose, but it bloody well deserves to; humans are pieces of shit and we are murdering the planet. We deserve the full force of the scorn this whale aims at us.
It's also pretty cool to get pretty much the archetypical hero's journey, as experienced by a whale.
It's also pretty cool to get pretty much the archetypical hero's journey, as experienced by a whale.
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
slow-paced
A fiction that demonstrates the truth of what humans are doing to the natural world, but from a totally unique perspective which forces the reader to consider the thoughts, feelings, and actions of non-human beings. Told from the point of view of Arjuna, an orca once captured and made to preform at an aquarium, who learns to communicate with humans in an attempt to understand why they are destroying the world, to convince them to change their ways, and to live in harmony with other animals, this book is desperately sad, deeply philosophical, breathtaking, bewildering, and beautiful.