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In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic, despotic bear Mord once prowled the corridors of the biotech organization known as the Company, which lies at the outskirts of the city, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly and broke free Driven insane by his torture at the Company, Mord terrorizes the city even as he provides sustenance for scavengers like Rachel.At first, Borne looks like nothing at all just a green lump that might be a Company discard The Company, although severely damaged, is rumoured to still make creatures and send them to distant places that have not yet suffered Collapse.Borne somehow reminds Rachel of the island nation of her birth, now long lost to rising seas She feels an attachment she resents attachments are traps, and in this world any weakness can kill you Yet when she takes Borne to her subterranean sanctuary, the Balcony Cliffs, Rachel convinces her lover, Wick, not to render Borne down to raw genetic material for the drugs he sells she cannot break that bond.Wick is a special kind of supplier, because the drug dealers in the city don t sell the usual things They sell tiny creatures that can be swallowed or stuck in the ear, and that release powerful memories of other people s happier times or pull out forgotten memories from the user s own mind or just produce beautiful visions that provide escape from the barren, craterous landscapes of the city.Against his better judgment, out of affection for Rachel or perhaps some other impulse, Wick respects her decision Rachel, meanwhile, despite her loyalty to Wick, knows he has kept secrets from her Searching his apartment, she finds a burnt, unreadable journal titled Mord, a cryptic reference to the Magician a rival drug dealer and evidence that Wick has planned the layout of the Balcony Cliffs to match the blueprint of the Company building What is he hiding Why won t he tell her about what happened when he worked for the Company Free Read Borne By Jeff VanderMeer For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.oh, jeff vandermeer to my shame, i have yet to read the southern reach trilogy, although i own all three, and have owned them for a good long time now and while we re on the subject of my many personal failings, i actually own a TON of his books, including three copies of city of saints and madmen, in at least two different versions many of these are in storage right now, after bedbug overreacti...Posted at Heradas ReviewVanderMeer s writing is engaging, difficult, and worth the effort required to read It takes me a little longer to finish his novels than I feel like it should It s the kind of writing that makes me a better reader It s challenging and uncomfortable Something about his prose makes me have to go back and reread sentences to make sure I understood what was being said It reminds me of William Gibson s writing in that way Of course, VanderMeer and Gibson write in entirel Posted at Heradas ReviewVanderMeer s writing is engaging, difficult, and worth the effort required to read It takes me a little longer to finish his novels than I feel like it should It s the kind of writing that makes me a better reader It s challenging and uncomfortable Something about his prose makes me have to go back and reread sentences to make sure I understood what was being said It reminds me of William Gibson s writing in that way Of course, VanderMeer and Gibson write in entirely different styles, but I have to do the same thing with Gibson novels as well I kind of love it There is a lot going on in each sentence, and I feel that it gives his novels tremendous reread value.Onto Borne specifically First off, whoever designed this cover is brilliant...The closer I approached, theBorne rose up through Mord s fur, becamelike a hybrid sea anemone and squid a sleep vase with rippling colors that strayed from purple toward deep blues and sea greens Four vertical ridges slid up the sides of its warm and pulsating skin The texture was as smooth as waterworn stone, if a bit rubbery It smelled of beach reeds on lazy summer afternoons and, beneath the sea salt, of passionflowers Much later, I realized it would have smelled different t The closer I...Pros ProseImagery Imagination World buildingBackstory Cons Pacing.I absolutely adored many things about this book but I think ultimately I admire Jeff VanderMeer s craftthan I enjoyed reading it He has a brilliant way with words and the pictures he paints are vivid, frightening, sad, and scary I enjoy the fact that he is not only clever but ultimately trusts the reader to be clever, too He lets you fill in the blanks yourself, he doesn t dumb down the story and he knows you will follow Pros ProseImagery Imagination World buildingBackstory Cons Pacing.I absolutely adored many things about this book but I think ultimately I admire Jeff VanderMeer s craftthan I enjoyed reading it He has a brilliant way with words and the pictures he paints are vivid, frightening, sad, and scary I enj...4.5 starsThis is probably going to be one of those times where I rail against the universe and popularity norms because this novel is an exemplary piece of imaginative fiction that goes well above and beyond the call of any duty to amaze, wonder, and offer up a meal of monstrously epic proportions.First, I should say that no matter how much I loved the weirdness and the atmosphere of VanderMeer s previous trilogy, nothing quite prepared me for just how good this was going to be In fac...Gloriously bizarre The world building is incredible Within the first night I started reading this, I had nightmares There s an icky flying bear that is sort of a GMO cautionary tale The biotech is wicked heehee, there s a pun in there, but you have to read the book to ...I ve wanted to read VanderMeer for some time and my plan was to start with the Southern Reach trilogy, his most known work up to date Then Borne came along and, after consulting with GR friends, I decided that the most recent novel would be the better place to start my incursion in the author s oeuvre as it is a standalone story Borne has many of the usual dystopian elements a post apocalyptic world, characters fighting for survival, raw behavior feelings and, a nostalgia for the former times I ve wanted to read VanderMeer for some time and my plan was to start with the Southern Reach trilogy, his most known work up to date Then Borne came along and, after consulting with GR friends, I decided that the most recent novel would be the better place to start my incursion in the author s oeuvre as it is a standalone story Borne has many of the usual dystopian elements a post apoca...Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend. Ask not for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee.Exquisite and extraordinary prose A poignant and terrible vision, an astounding dystopia, so plausible, so actually probable This is a book you LIVE, not just read Note I do not recommend this book to those without a strong emotional constitution.All through this extraordinary and wonderful book, I found myself nearly in tears as I watched Rachel my grand daughter in this story suffer and struggle in the wreck of a world we are creatin Ask not for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee.Exquisite and extraordinary prose A poignant and terrible vision, an astounding dystopia, so plausible, so actually probable This is a book you LIVE, not just read Note I do not recommend this book to those without a strong emotional constitution.All through this extraordinary and wonderful book, I found myself nearly in tears as I watched Rachel my grand daughter in this story suffer and struggle in the wreck of a world we are creating for her now I find Rachel s terrible future to be our future, and Rachel s remembered past to be what we are living now, and will lose so very soon We are both gods and fools, and have consigned our children to the hell that should be reserved for us, and for our greedy leaders whom we allow to poison and abuse our future.In the early 1 3 of the book, Rachel s attachment to Borne her son is magical, and full of newly parental insight and growing love ...

Borne
  • English
  • 09 April 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 323 pages
  • 0374115249
  • Jeff VanderMeer
  • Borne