![]() ![]() Bester's work is maybe ambitious, maybe absurdist magical realism, maybe it could even be considered by some to be good. Bester casts as his protagonist a professional perfume smeller (perhaps unique in all of literature - if not let me know) and about a hive mentality, and the Palestine Liberation Organization being a world power and about over-population, and satanic rituals and demonic summoning. So, what is this about? A lot of things really. I trudged through and finished this out of morbid curiosity. This book falls on the opposite side of the spectrum - the worst book. Many people have a favorite book or a list of the best novels they've ever read. Because just as love is not the opposite of hate, indifference is the opposite of love, the one star is that rarest of accolades, the book so bad you want to finish. Good reads should have five stars and then a DNF – did not finish. ![]()
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