- Mass Market Paperback: 311 pages
- Publisher: Archipoche Editions (20 May 2009)
- Language French
- ISBN-10: 2352871298
- ISBN-13: 978-2352871293
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,909,594 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'K-PAX is a gloriously off-beat comedy that reads like a combination of Starman, Oliver Sacks and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' Esquire
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A man is brought into the mental ward of the Manhattan Institute after claiming to come from outer space. He maintains that he is an inhabitant of planet K-PX, a perfect world without wars, government or religion where every being co-exists in perfect harmony. And he sets a departure date when he will return home on a beam of light - which keeps the reader guessing until the very end.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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K-PAX is one of the great underrated science fiction novels. It's a simple tale, beautifully told, which draws you in and makes you want to believe in the characters. Until the end, you could almost believe it's a true story.
Written as a first person account by a psychiatrist treating a patient who claims to be from another planet. "prot", as he calls himself, explains that he will return to his home planet of K-PAX at a specified time and date, riding on a beam of light -- and taking one of the other inmates of the hospital with him. Meanwhile, Dr. Brewer tries to understand who prot really is, and to demonstrate to himself and to prot that his patient is an ordinary human.
Too often this kind of book begins promisingly but fails to deliver on the promise -- the mysteries set out before the reader are explained away too easily, or the delicate sense of almost-reality that these stories depend on is broken. But K-PAX delivers on all fronts. Every explanation has another mystery hidden inside it, and the ending is at once realistic and rational, making sense of everything so far, while leaving some doubt and hope in your mind.
When I read K-PAX, I immediately went out and bought another copy for a friend. He phoned me up later: "I got home at midnight and saw you'd left a book for me. I thought, 'That's nice, I'll read for half an hour or so before I go to sleep." And I couldn't put it down! You &*$@*?#!". It was 4:30 in the morning.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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I ordered this casually from a catalogue and picked it up casually this morning as it was at the top of my unread pile. I have been unable to put this down all day (and the lawn has remained unmowed!). This is the most compelling book I have read for several years and I just glad that my 'casual' book order included K-PAZ II!
I assumed this was a straight forward fiction novel, but the first person narrative of the psychiatrist almost makes you question whether this is non fiction whilst the dialogue with 'prot' turns you to believe this is a science fiction novel. In its denouement it becomes a amalgam of all three and it's clever and convincing writing helps it stand up on all fronts.
You will want to know who or what 'prot' is and right up the end gene brewer keeps you enthralled. Read this book.
I assumed this was a straight forward fiction novel, but the first person narrative of the psychiatrist almost makes you question whether this is non fiction whilst the dialogue with 'prot' turns you to believe this is a science fiction novel. In its denouement it becomes a amalgam of all three and it's clever and convincing writing helps it stand up on all fronts.
You will want to know who or what 'prot' is and right up the end gene brewer keeps you enthralled. Read this book.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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This really was a fantastic read. If you are thinking of buying just the first book in the trilogy...STOP. Buy this one instead. This book has all three of the trilogy inside and trust me...after the first one you will not be able to stop yourself from reading the other two.
As a bonus, with this one you also get to reads Prot's report at the end.
I found with this trilogy that every chapter in all three books just got better and better so by the end of book 3 you will be sorry that it has come to an end.
After reading all three books (as supplied in this one book) I had to buy the DVD because I felt that I wanted to 'see' Prot as throughout the book you came to love this character and want to learn more about him.
You really need to buy this book, you will not regret it.
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Unputdownable!
I was given the first book in this trilogy for Christmas a few years ago, opened it early on Christmas morning, and couldn't put it down until I got to the end. Read more
Published 20 days ago by kangaroo
I wish I'd read it sooner!
**Contains minor plot spoilers**
I have had this book on the shelf for ages - it was recommended to me by a colleague whose recs are always spot on, but because I bought the... Read more
I have had this book on the shelf for ages - it was recommended to me by a colleague whose recs are always spot on, but because I bought the... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Elaine Daniels
A great read
Much better than the movie a great read, Ive read book 1 and 2 and looking forward to 3. If you are not into fantasy dont worry this may sound like fantasy but its not. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mims
K-PAX, excellent and disappointing.
I loved the first book, but the autho'rs references in the second and third book to him writing them just for his and his wife's retirement, rings too true. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Rustygecko
Absolutely Fantastic!
Put very simply, it's a brilliant book! I couldn't wait to get home to continue the story every day.......
Published 19 months ago by Southampton girl
WOW!
I'd read the first book before, mainly because I'd seen and loved the movie. This was a number of years ago now. Read more
Published on 7 Mar 2010 by KMR
Light
It doesn't really make you question what it is to be human or what is real in the way that Pjilip K Dick and Robert Anton Wilson routinely do, but it made for an entertaining light... Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2010 by A. C. Green
Beautifully Packaged Trilogy!
I never knew this book existed, not until I saw the film and my friend dragged out his old, dusty copies of the trilogy he had been collecting. Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2009 by Stealthoneill
Beyond this world
This book is written as if by a K-PAXian. I will not repeat what everybody has read in other reviews but I just want to emphasize that it is a genius of a novel. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2008 by Diaa M. Fakhr
five stars for the first book and then one less each for the rest
I saw the film K-Pax starring Kevin Spacey and thought it was rather good. I decided to risk reading the book. Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2008 by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley
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