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Zoo (Paperback)

by Graham Marks (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; New edition edition (6 Aug 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 074759127X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747591276
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 840,420 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Marks's grip on reality is so good (either he has teenage sons of his own or a teenspeak function alongside spellcheck) that the seraphic elements are swept along with total conviction.' Sunday Telegraph 'Graham Mark's How it Works is a great blend of well-observed contemporary life and a little magic realism.' Observer


Nicholas Tucker, The Independent

Clear echoes of the whole sub-Raymond Chandler genre and American road movies. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Super taut and savvy thriller, 12 Oct 2005
By A. Weston "Adrian Weston" (Brighton, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zoo: Life Couldn't Get Any Wilder (Paperback)
A rattling paced novel that overcomes some slightly (as in extremely) implausible plot twists. It throws in rather sophisiticated stuff about eugenics and medical-nazism with quite some verve. My teenage son really enjoyed it and has infact re-read it which is always a good sign and, for a thriller, it also prompted interesting discussions about ethics - also a good sign. Nice characterisation and some chilly bad guys ratchet up the tension - I shall be looking out the author's other books.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars lack of emotion makes it difficult to connect....., 2 May 2005
By J. Smith "skypilot" (uk) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Zoo: Life Couldn't Get Any Wilder (Paperback)
I acquired this book because it had a reasonably good write up in a newspaper, but I found myself disappointed and gave up on it about halfway through. This was because although the action was fast paced in keeping with its thriller format, I could not sympathise or empathise with any of the characters so in the end I ended up not really caring what happened to them, which in turn let the tension out of the story like a pierced balloon. I know that with thriller writing the focus is on the action rather than on the characters. Even so, some degree of character build-up must be there. They must be given some human shape by some description of their likes, dislikes. aspirations, dreams, their past, their strenghs and weaknesses, if nothing else then if we cannot like them then at least we should hate them and hang on in the hope that they will get their just desserts! Without the capacity to generate some of such emotion in the reader even the best thought out storylines cannot save the book. And here's another thing....the impetus for the forward movement of the story was badly flawed: the main character, who has been kidnapped, accidently kills one of his kidnappers when he makes a bid to escape. The main character then rather stupidly assumes that he must run and hide from the police because he will get into bad trouble for killing one of his kidnappers. I mean, come on! By the author's own admission kidnappers often murder the kidnappee even after the ransom has been paid, so which judge and jury in their right mind would make a fuss about a kidnappee accidently killing one of his kidnappers while trying to esdcape! To ask the reader to believe this is to ask the reader to accept that the main character is a dumb-ass, so if we now believe he is a dumb ass then can we really care what happens to him? Can we respect him? Can we regard him as a hero? Also the viewpoints and location in the story keep changing, which is not the accepted technique for writing for children or teenage market, and even though this rule is broken it really does nothing for the story and is simply irritating since the supporting characters' viewpoints are even more so suggestive of cardboard cut outs than the main characters. And why, oh why does the writer feel obliged to introduce a highly contrived sex scene in the same way that writers for adults introduce such a scene, like clockwork, every so many pages in a thriller? Much more power could have been generated by leaving out the initiation of a kiss by a female character (perhaps to cater for the fantasies of the male readers) and simply taking the time to describe a common undercurrent of attraction between the two which would have made the story come alive. Reaching halfway through I just said to myself well, am I prepare to wade through a second half of more of the same and the answer was no. I could not see anything on the horizon even that would make me want to know what happened next and at the end. Sad, because in some ways the story itself in places showed good planning by the writer as far as its events were concerned. I think that the writer simply underestimated the reader's intelligence. Well, my friend, most teenagers are not stupid. And even if a stupid teenager read this book he would still want to have his emotions stimulated in order to want to read on, and this the book fails to do.
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