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Sector W
A frustrating love story inside a perpetual motion machine, beyond the end of the world.
Zoran works tirelessly at his job in the factory. Everyone says that the factory is flying through space, headed for a paradise planet, but nobody has ever been outside.
Zoran is an obsessive worker and a dedicated lover. What will happen when his love turns sour and his job turns out to be a sham?
Can he stay motivated if the factory is not what it appears to be? Will he join the rebel Black Suits and help them with their strange plans?
What is the secret of Sector W?
Zoran works tirelessly at his job in the factory. Everyone says that the factory is flying through space, headed for a paradise planet, but nobody has ever been outside.
Zoran is an obsessive worker and a dedicated lover. What will happen when his love turns sour and his job turns out to be a sham?
Can he stay motivated if the factory is not what it appears to be? Will he join the rebel Black Suits and help them with their strange plans?
What is the secret of Sector W?
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First published April 29, 2014
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Matt Payne
33 books15 followersI write comedic fiction and epic adventures. Sometimes I write absurd comedic stories under the pseudonym Johannes Paine.
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September 8, 2014
I received this book through a Goodreads Giveaway. I would like to thank the author for offering it. However, I'm afraid my review won't be positive.
Had to go with two out of five stars. But I'm being very generous. The ideas were interesting, but the storytelling was poor.
In the end, the protagonist finds out that their existence MIGHT be pointless. His boss tells him that he doesn't think anything exists outside, that the factory is slowly getting colder in the void of space (presumably, we never really find out) and eventually the factory will freeze and everyone will die. So, he just accepts that and decides he'll build a house and plant some trees with a girl that he had only met twice and might want to have sex with someday. All that happens in the last couple of pages of the book. THE END. The rest of the book hardly matters.
Unfortunately, the characters were also barely one-dimensional. The protagonist cared about two things: exploring and finding a girl to have sex with. He wasn't particularly noble or anything. So even calling him a "protagonist" seems like quite a stretch. The book description says he's a "dedicated lover", but he didn't even have a sexual relationship with the girl he "loved". She ends up with some meat-head, her only excuse that the protagonist doesn't work on the same assembly line she does.
While the story ideas weren't formulaic, the writing certainly was. "He did this." "Then he did that." Almost everything was a declarative statement. There was no nuance to the writing style at all. At first, I thought that might have been an artistic choice. The character was very matter-of-fact and step-by-step, since they work on factory assembly lines all their lives. But after 20 or so pages, you come to realize that it's just the extremely stilted writing style of the author. Maybe English isn't his first language?
Ultimately, this book didn't say a whole lot. I think there might have been an aborted attempt toward the end-- and I mean the VERY end, like the last three or four pages of the book-- to make a philosophical statement that there's no point to our existence. But I can't be sure the author's intentions actually went that deep.
I can't say I recommend reading this book.
Had to go with two out of five stars. But I'm being very generous. The ideas were interesting, but the storytelling was poor.
In the end, the protagonist finds out that their existence MIGHT be pointless. His boss tells him that he doesn't think anything exists outside, that the factory is slowly getting colder in the void of space (presumably, we never really find out) and eventually the factory will freeze and everyone will die. So, he just accepts that and decides he'll build a house and plant some trees with a girl that he had only met twice and might want to have sex with someday. All that happens in the last couple of pages of the book. THE END. The rest of the book hardly matters.
Unfortunately, the characters were also barely one-dimensional. The protagonist cared about two things: exploring and finding a girl to have sex with. He wasn't particularly noble or anything. So even calling him a "protagonist" seems like quite a stretch. The book description says he's a "dedicated lover", but he didn't even have a sexual relationship with the girl he "loved". She ends up with some meat-head, her only excuse that the protagonist doesn't work on the same assembly line she does.
While the story ideas weren't formulaic, the writing certainly was. "He did this." "Then he did that." Almost everything was a declarative statement. There was no nuance to the writing style at all. At first, I thought that might have been an artistic choice. The character was very matter-of-fact and step-by-step, since they work on factory assembly lines all their lives. But after 20 or so pages, you come to realize that it's just the extremely stilted writing style of the author. Maybe English isn't his first language?
Ultimately, this book didn't say a whole lot. I think there might have been an aborted attempt toward the end-- and I mean the VERY end, like the last three or four pages of the book-- to make a philosophical statement that there's no point to our existence. But I can't be sure the author's intentions actually went that deep.
I can't say I recommend reading this book.
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October 20, 2015
There is no book here
There is no actual book here, only a blank page. Not even a title page. When you open the book you get a blank page then swipe once and you are at the review stage. Did the author for some reason upload a blank piece of paper?
There is no actual book here, only a blank page. Not even a title page. When you open the book you get a blank page then swipe once and you are at the review stage. Did the author for some reason upload a blank piece of paper?
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