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k_lee_reads_it 's review for:
The Pox Party
by M.T. Anderson
I truly don’t think this book belongs in the teen section of the library. It is too difficult and graphic for most of the readers who browse there.
If you want to know what this is about read some of the other reviews, especially the one I marked as liked.
How did I feel about the book?
I despised the first section: The Transit of Venus
I was enlightened by the second, The Pox Party, particularly this quote:
"...I fear that one thing shall remain. When I peer into the reaches of the most distant futurity, I fear that even in some unseen epoch when there are colonies even upon the moon itself, there shall still be gatherings like this, where the young, blinded by privilege, shall dance and giggle and compare their poxy lesions."
I found the third, Liberty & Property, confusing as it is written from several completely different points of view from the other sections. Also it is about war battles, never a favorite subject for me.
And the final section, The Great Chain of Being, was piercing and painful.
At the end of the book my thoughts are that freedom isn’t free and humanity is inhumane.
I give it a 2.5 to a 3 because the writing and theme were amazing, but I really didn't like the book.
If you want to know what this is about read some of the other reviews, especially the one I marked as liked.
How did I feel about the book?
I despised the first section: The Transit of Venus
I was enlightened by the second, The Pox Party, particularly this quote:
"...I fear that one thing shall remain. When I peer into the reaches of the most distant futurity, I fear that even in some unseen epoch when there are colonies even upon the moon itself, there shall still be gatherings like this, where the young, blinded by privilege, shall dance and giggle and compare their poxy lesions."
I found the third, Liberty & Property, confusing as it is written from several completely different points of view from the other sections. Also it is about war battles, never a favorite subject for me.
And the final section, The Great Chain of Being, was piercing and painful.
At the end of the book my thoughts are that freedom isn’t free and humanity is inhumane.
I give it a 2.5 to a 3 because the writing and theme were amazing, but I really didn't like the book.