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A review by writerreader
The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
1.25
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Not even sure where to start. Another award winning novel that falls so far short of any kind of decent bar I have to assume coke and bribes were made to have it win so much acclaim. Or maybe it's me. I swear this would have done better as a short story... but that just might be me again. The premise is pretty intriguing. An entirely exact plane lands with the exact same people on it as another flight that had experienced turbulence some time ago. Filled with duplicate people, this mystery now needs to be solved. But it isn't. Not even in the realist sense that we couldn't possibly know (it seems most settle on it being the result of us living in a simulation) but it doesn't dive into the true reactions humanity would have to both that realization and how each person would deal with having a "duplicate" around.
So in the end the idea was great, but both not fully realized as well as not truthful to how people act in such situations.
Not even sure where to start. Another award winning novel that falls so far short of any kind of decent bar I have to assume coke and bribes were made to have it win so much acclaim. Or maybe it's me. I swear this would have done better as a short story... but that just might be me again. The premise is pretty intriguing. An entirely exact plane lands with the exact same people on it as another flight that had experienced turbulence some time ago. Filled with duplicate people, this mystery now needs to be solved. But it isn't. Not even in the realist sense that we couldn't possibly know (it seems most settle on it being the result of us living in a simulation) but it doesn't dive into the true reactions humanity would have to both that realization and how each person would deal with having a "duplicate" around.
So in the end the idea was great, but both not fully realized as well as not truthful to how people act in such situations.