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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
So boring and missed a lot of opportunities for class, environmental, and stability anxiety reflections. Also the one woman character was so vacant of any personality at all it was almost impressive. I think the author would have liked to achieve another effect than what he ultimately did from the detached tone.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Basically an account of what hotel service would be like at the end of the world??
Novellas don’t normally capture me easily but this one has such a foreboding sense of unease that I just had to keep reading.
After nuclear disaster (this was written in the 60s), a group of wealthy people emerge from their bunkers into the luxury hotel Termush, where they intend to continue living as if nothing has changed, cooks, servants, and all. But the psychological effects of an invisible enemy (radiation) and poisoned refugees arriving at the hotel start to make that fantasy crumble.
Really a creepy read, with lots of beautiful descriptions, and a lot unsaid that kept me thinking after I finished.
After nuclear disaster (this was written in the 60s), a group of wealthy people emerge from their bunkers into the luxury hotel Termush, where they intend to continue living as if nothing has changed, cooks, servants, and all. But the psychological effects of an invisible enemy (radiation) and poisoned refugees arriving at the hotel start to make that fantasy crumble.
Really a creepy read, with lots of beautiful descriptions, and a lot unsaid that kept me thinking after I finished.
Wonderfully cold. Clinical, almost. A reflection on the staggering issue of class when structures and institutions no longer survive, although Termush posits that maybe they are the only things that do survive.
Massive amounts of gratitude to Faber Editions for the publication of this novel I would otherwise not have been able to find, and for the advance ebook!
Massive amounts of gratitude to Faber Editions for the publication of this novel I would otherwise not have been able to find, and for the advance ebook!
didn’t realise this was written in the 60s until I went back and read the foreword, also, the perfect length for reading in a coffee shop
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
My favourite type of sci-fi, a completely human dystopia.
Set in an apocalyptic world, Termush uses a first-person perspective of an anonymous narrator in a style that imitates a journal format without the rigidness of a perceivable time/date. The events could be happening in days or months, it is up to the reader's discretion.
A group of wealthy apocalypse survivors are nurtured away from the devastated outside world inside a luxury resort. What ensures throughout Termush is a series of events that question human nature, authority, law, and morality through the perspective of a narrator who is both incredibly critical and yet somehow seemingly unreliable.
I felt the setting and story shared a similar style to the works of Emily St John Mandel, however the character style was a unique twist. Although the book wasn't as fleshed out as it could have been, and there was room for it to be longer and to make some more defined criticisms, as an 100 page novella it was pretty faultless.
Set in an apocalyptic world, Termush uses a first-person perspective of an anonymous narrator in a style that imitates a journal format without the rigidness of a perceivable time/date. The events could be happening in days or months, it is up to the reader's discretion.
A group of wealthy apocalypse survivors are nurtured away from the devastated outside world inside a luxury resort. What ensures throughout Termush is a series of events that question human nature, authority, law, and morality through the perspective of a narrator who is both incredibly critical and yet somehow seemingly unreliable.
I felt the setting and story shared a similar style to the works of Emily St John Mandel, however the character style was a unique twist. Although the book wasn't as fleshed out as it could have been, and there was room for it to be longer and to make some more defined criticisms, as an 100 page novella it was pretty faultless.
I spotted this book a few weeks ago and had a sense I needed to read it for some reason. I bought it after spotting it the other day, and, yeah.. it’s unique at least!
I think the writing just didn’t work for me, and a lot of the thoughts in it either went over my head or didn’t connect, but I was intrigued enough and got some nice visuals out of it.
I think I would re-read it for inspiration if ever writing or thinking about location.
I think the writing just didn’t work for me, and a lot of the thoughts in it either went over my head or didn’t connect, but I was intrigued enough and got some nice visuals out of it.
I think I would re-read it for inspiration if ever writing or thinking about location.