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Scott Bakker
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16 Sep 2010

Imagine being able to remember everything you've ever experienced.

This is the lonely world inhabited by Disciple Manning. He is able to recall every conversation, meeting and feeling he has ever had, making him an extremely dangerous private investigator.

When a young woman disappears, not from her home, but from a religious cult, her parents turn to Manning for help. Manning accepts, but with a chilling sense of foreboding.

Heading into the heart of the cult, he encounters its beguiling leader, obsessed with the idea that the world is a fantastical theatre, in which we merely act out our roles, ignorant of our true existence beyond; a belief he is intent on protecting, at any cost.

Manning's investigation soon leads to clashes with the cult's unsettling belief systems and leaves him fighting for survival and elusive answers, before they are swallowed into a shadowy pool of secrets. Meanwhile, it's only a matter of time before the missing girl risks being abandoned for ever to the depths of everyone's forgotten memories¿


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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Orion (16 Sep 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0752898329
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752898322
  • Product Dimensions: 15.3 x 1.8 x 23.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,054,482 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The new dark thriller from the author of NEUROPATH

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Scott Bakker is the son of a tobacco share-cropper. He spent his youth either exploring the wooded bluffs of Lake Erie's north shore or working in hot summer fields. He left the countryside to study English language and literature at University of Western Ontario, and from there moved to Nashville to pursue a PhD in philosophy. He now lives in London, Ontario.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A decent thriller 18 Oct 2010
Format:Hardcover
Bakker's previous thriller NEUROPATH is one of my favorite novels, so my expectations for this novel were very high. In retrospect, higher than the book could ever have lived up to. But it's still a fine novel.

The most striking thing about the book is its protagonist, Disciple Manning. (What's up with Bakker's implausibly-named main characters anyway?) He narrates the book first person, bringing us very to close to him. And to be fair, he's a jerk. Having a perfect memory makes him see all the patterns in human behavior. He can't really make friends or sustain a relationship because people bore him intensely. No doubt Bakker intended Disciple to be unlikeable, but it probably will be a hurdle for many readers. The concept of a character with perfect recall does enable Bakker to make some profound reflections on human interaction and belief.

Once you get past Disciple's attitude, the novel is quite enjoyable, and like Neuropath, utterly uncompromising. If i have to name a flaw, it would be the book's length. It is simply too short. Bakker is better known for writing huge fantasy novels, and one gets the feeling that this was a breather project for him. Had the novel been longer, he could have explored the Framers' belief system more - which is interesting, but we learn too little about it.

All in all, I would recommend giving this book a go. For all its flaws, it will make you think.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Really nice... 31 May 2012
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A sociopath that remembers everything? I liked it! A rather short intensive crime story with a strange hero. I've read Bakker
excellent fantasy books and this is also very enjoyable.(Even better than "Neuropath")
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4.0 out of 5 stars Bakker's most accessible work yet 25 Nov 2010
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Format:Hardcover
Disciple Manning is a jerk. But a very entertaining, interesting and intelligent jerk. If you can live with that, you will probably enjoy this book, a very well paced thought-provoking thriller with a few good twists.

If you can't stand Disciple, you certainly won't like the book either, since he is the narrator.

Some of the themes regarding consciousness, memory and irrational human behaviour have been explored by Bakker in his earlier books, and if you (like me) follow his excellent "Second Apocalypse" fantasy sequence you will be familiar with many of the ideas, though they are presented in a different way here.

My only gripes are the ending, which felt somewhat too brief, and that Mr. Bakker's philosophical and cognitive points feel repetitive after a while. That might be due to me having been exposed to said points before through his other writings, though.

All in all, a very decent thriller that makes you think.
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