Tokyo Zero (Marc Horne)
Tokyo Zero (My Tokyo Death Cult)
I am sure there are a number of people out there who truly enjoyed Marc Horne’s Tokyo Zero. I am not one of those people. It had its moments, and it kept me involved enough that after start/stopping it over a month, I was able to finish it. I did not really enjoy it though. It was kind of like weak chocolate milk.. it was good, but it did not satisfy.
Essentially, it is about a man who’s father is the head of an anti-humanity cult. they are working to remove the human population of the world, weeding it until the garden is clean of pesky pests. The main character goes to Tokyo, and infiltrates a different cult who has their own agenda. The goal of this group is to release a series of Sarin gas bombs in the Tokyo subway system.
For those who plan to read this, I will save the plot details so you can still be surprised.
The characters in the book were decent (a couple were actually stellar), the story was pretty up my alley, so I guess the key factor that I disliked was the writing style. The story was disjointed in many places to an unrecoverable degree. It seemed as if Horne was trying to hard to write a good novel and got wrapped up in the trying, stifling the book instead.. It also felt over edited, as if he had cut a little here and there to increase the pace, but instead it was nearly unreadable in many places.
Give it a shot if you are interested, it just turned out not to be something I could get behind 100%.
- Pages: 289
- Creative Common (Marc Horne, 2004)
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i agree. i started it and just had to hard of time with his writing style. things were to disjointed for me. i kept having to go back and reread some things cuz i thought I'd missed something. might try again latter.
ReplyDeleteno big loss if you dont.
ReplyDeleteas stated, it was enjoyable, but took a lot of effort.