sakusha's review
4.0
I think a better and more relevant name for the book would have been “Not Dead.”
I read the book because it had a virus similar to covid-19 in it: Wuhan-400. They were both man-made diseases created in the lab in Wuhan, China (304, 310). There’s no permanent immunity to the disease (305). But unlike covid-19, Wuhan-400 is very deadly (311). Maybe the author has some psychicness himself, eh?
Overall, the story was interesting, but it seemed unrealistic how Elliot was so perfect, so willing to help a woman he barely knew, and so smart to always be one step ahead of the villains. Every obstacle was easily overcome.
In the beginning, some of the sentences were too loaded with description. There was a lot of telling and melodrama. But it either got better later or I just ignored it.
Elliot’s perfection: wealthy, talkative, has many interests, funny, intriguing, no kids, makes Tina feel comfortable, smart enough to evade the villains, “a blend of male power and gentleness, aggressive sexuality and kindness” (52). Also muscular and strong (117-119). Likes interior decorating (111), and is modest about everything except his cooking (113).
Quotes:
‘Remember maybe ten years ago when that Texas elections official revealed how Lyndon Johnson’s first local election was fixed?’ (170)
I keep hearing bad things about that man. More reason to think that he had a role in JFK’s assassination so that he could become president.
‘The whole family was nothing but a bunch of hypocrites. . . . The famous Pennsylvania Alexanders had always been prominently associated with the struggle for minority civil rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, the crusade against capital punishment, and social idealisms of every variety. Yet numerous members of the family had secretly rendered service—some of it dirty—to the FBI, the CIA and various other intelligence and police agencies, often the very same organizations that they publicly criticized and reviled’ (212).
Sounds like democrats.
‘While we’re working so hard to keep ahead of our enemies, aren’t we perhaps becoming more like them? Aren’t we becoming a totalitarian state, the very thing we say we despise?’ (230)
I read the book because it had a virus similar to covid-19 in it: Wuhan-400. They were both man-made diseases created in the lab in Wuhan, China (304, 310). There’s no permanent immunity to the disease (305). But unlike covid-19, Wuhan-400 is very deadly (311). Maybe the author has some psychicness himself, eh?
Overall, the story was interesting, but it seemed unrealistic how Elliot was so perfect, so willing to help a woman he barely knew, and so smart to always be one step ahead of the villains. Every obstacle was easily overcome.
In the beginning, some of the sentences were too loaded with description. There was a lot of telling and melodrama. But it either got better later or I just ignored it.
Elliot’s perfection: wealthy, talkative, has many interests, funny, intriguing, no kids, makes Tina feel comfortable, smart enough to evade the villains, “a blend of male power and gentleness, aggressive sexuality and kindness” (52). Also muscular and strong (117-119). Likes interior decorating (111), and is modest about everything except his cooking (113).
Quotes:
‘Remember maybe ten years ago when that Texas elections official revealed how Lyndon Johnson’s first local election was fixed?’ (170)
I keep hearing bad things about that man. More reason to think that he had a role in JFK’s assassination so that he could become president.
‘The whole family was nothing but a bunch of hypocrites. . . . The famous Pennsylvania Alexanders had always been prominently associated with the struggle for minority civil rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, the crusade against capital punishment, and social idealisms of every variety. Yet numerous members of the family had secretly rendered service—some of it dirty—to the FBI, the CIA and various other intelligence and police agencies, often the very same organizations that they publicly criticized and reviled’ (212).
Sounds like democrats.
‘While we’re working so hard to keep ahead of our enemies, aren’t we perhaps becoming more like them? Aren’t we becoming a totalitarian state, the very thing we say we despise?’ (230)
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