Note: There are major spoilers here. I'll warn you when they're coming
Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for this book, but I enjoyed it about as much as I enjoyed kidney surgery. It's like a history textbook containing only court transcripts. Sure, there are some great philosophical elements regarding life, thought, ideas, creation, etc contained here, but I didn't care about the story at all. There was no story. The whole novel takes place in 4 hours time and deals primarily with the past. If I wanted to read something like this, I'd have grabbed a West Memphis 3 court transcript or a journal article...both infinitely more entertaining than this story.
Some people might think I'm missing the point, but I do get it. I just don't like it. I don't mind debating philosophy on occasion, but that's all this was: a great big philosophical barf. I could spend a few minutes or hours dissecting this novel in my mind and determining what my own beliefs are regarding the themes, but you know what? I'm just going to move right along to the next book instead. Which is my own decision, Mr. Beckett...because I'm human and have a brain and thoughts and ideas. Gah! I really don't like this book.
The reader is kept outside the story and little connection (no connection really) is felt to the characters. And maybe that's why I didn't like it. It's a cerebral book, not an emotional one...which is typically how I prefer to operate, but not when it comes to fiction. I kept waiting for something -- anything -- to happen. Something to move to story beyond the walls of the Academy, but no. I could have punched the author when I read the twist. I'm not one for giving the ending away usually, but do you want to know? Do you?
~SPOILER ALERT~
She's a monkey. Yeah. Anax (the main character) is an orangutan robot. The end. Thanks for reading.
Rating: 2/10
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