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The Hit
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I've never read Burgess's seminal SMACK (I was in my early twenties when it was published so my reading material was mostly PROSSER ON TORTS) so I was looking forward to trying my first book by him. I enjoyed it, but was a bit underwhelmed. While I enjoyed the "rage against the machine" spirit and loved the entire idea of a drug that allows an individual to live a great life for a week, then perish, I found the writing choppy and the plotting a bit off (a criminal mastermind would allow his psychotic son to run free? Not if it would pose a potential risk to his criminal enterprise. This entire world-wide phenomenon just happens to center around a very few people?).
I enjoyed it, but didn't love it and wish the plotting had been worthy of the great idea.
I've never read Burgess's seminal SMACK (I was in my early twenties when it was published so my reading material was mostly PROSSER ON TORTS) so I was looking forward to trying my first book by him. I enjoyed it, but was a bit underwhelmed. While I enjoyed the "rage against the machine" spirit and loved the entire idea of a drug that allows an individual to live a great life for a week, then perish, I found the writing choppy and the plotting a bit off (a criminal mastermind would allow his psychotic son to run free? Not if it would pose a potential risk to his criminal enterprise. This entire world-wide phenomenon just happens to center around a very few people?).
I enjoyed it, but didn't love it and wish the plotting had been worthy of the great idea.
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Reading Progress
January 27, 2014
– Shelved as:
to-read
January 27, 2014
– Shelved
January 27, 2014
– Shelved as:
arc-review
January 27, 2014
– Shelved as:
post-apocalypse-dystopia
January 27, 2014
– Shelved as:
young-adult
January 30, 2014
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Started Reading
February 1, 2014
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Finished Reading
