Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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PARASITE open thread!

To (somewhat belatedly) celebrate the release of Parasite, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.)

You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.

Have fun!
Tags: mira grant, pandemic time, parasite
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disposable002

November 11 2013, 17:40:54 UTC 3 years ago Edited:  November 11 2013, 17:42:00 UTC

I really enjoyed the book. I wasn't sure that I would, the premise isn't really something that would have drawn me in but, since I've liked everything else Seanan/Mira has written, I gave it a shot. It was well worth it. As with all of her books, time flew by and I finished it all too soon. There was a big reveal for the protagonist that I saw coming from miles away as a reader. I think that we are supposed to see it coming; the suspense was in awaiting the character's realization. The ending was almost physically painful, since Big Things are about to happen. Fortunately, the next book is coming out reasonably soon.

I would recommend this for anybody with an interest in genetic engineering, and ethics in medicine. Also, anybody with a tapeworm. Also, tapeworms with an anybody.

jenk

November 12 2013, 01:06:04 UTC 3 years ago

To my mind it wasn't so much as big reveal as a conclusion Sal had been avoiding (with active help from SymboGen) for years.