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Orfeo
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Ok, I hate to say it, because this book sounded *fascinating* - Encoding music into DNA? Bioterrorism? How could it not be amazing?
Because it was BORING. This was one of the hardest books I have ever had to force myself to finish because it was just dull, dull, dull. Long, bland descriptions of music - both composing and listening - and maybe it was an attempt to try to translate the feelings music can evoke into words, but if so, it was an utter failure. It almost made me hate music!
And the parts that would have been interesting, the DNA pieces, nothing there was explored. The bioterrorism (didn't really) happen and the main character just sort of drifted around, 'on the run' with no real drama or action, remembering his life through the music he wrote/listened to and there was nothing there, no insight, no depth, nothing but sheer BOREDOM. Remembering how bored I was reading this makes me so mad, and that may be the only thing that gives it 2 stars instead of 1, because at least being enraged is better than BOREDOM. Which I have to capitalize every time I think of this book.
Which is a shame, because a novel based around a composer/amateur scientist encoding music into DNA in an attempt to leave a record for possible future/alien species and being considered a potential bioterrorist because of his genetic manipulations of viruses should have been one of the best books EVER. Even reading that description again makes me want THAT BOOK. To bad that's not the one Powers delivered.
Because it was BORING. This was one of the hardest books I have ever had to force myself to finish because it was just dull, dull, dull. Long, bland descriptions of music - both composing and listening - and maybe it was an attempt to try to translate the feelings music can evoke into words, but if so, it was an utter failure. It almost made me hate music!
And the parts that would have been interesting, the DNA pieces, nothing there was explored. The bioterrorism (didn't really) happen and the main character just sort of drifted around, 'on the run' with no real drama or action, remembering his life through the music he wrote/listened to and there was nothing there, no insight, no depth, nothing but sheer BOREDOM. Remembering how bored I was reading this makes me so mad, and that may be the only thing that gives it 2 stars instead of 1, because at least being enraged is better than BOREDOM. Which I have to capitalize every time I think of this book.
Which is a shame, because a novel based around a composer/amateur scientist encoding music into DNA in an attempt to leave a record for possible future/alien species and being considered a potential bioterrorist because of his genetic manipulations of viruses should have been one of the best books EVER. Even reading that description again makes me want THAT BOOK. To bad that's not the one Powers delivered.
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