Watermelon Ken Lakritz 9781484839546 Books
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In the near future, a small, spherical, impossible object quietly pops into existence on a watermelon farm in California. For the next year, a team of physicists, psychologists, linguists, and computers attempts to make contact. This is their official, but not entirely reliable report.
Watermelon Ken Lakritz 9781484839546 Books
Lakritz' first book is a science fiction fantasy about a very unusual object that turns up in a California melon patch. About the size of a basketball, it attracts attention at first for not looking like anything anyone has ever seen: it looks like an empty black space, a hole in the visual field. The more people try to find out about it, the more unusual it seems. You can't measure it's exact dimensions, no matter how hard you try. Sometimes it seems to emit a red flash of light. Around this weird object is drawn an equally weird collection of people trying to figure out what it is. It will give away nothing to tell you that they don't succeed. As the groups gets to know each other, the relationships between them become more complex, the Watermelon gets more complex with the investigators.You might enjoy the author's self-bemused ramblings on various side topics (but not as much as the he seems to). More likely, you'll just go through those parts quickly, and concentrate on the parts concerning Norma Loquendi, the central character, and the narrator. It goes quite quickly for a book of its length.
I commend Lakritz for a very successful denouement which resolves the open relationship between Norma, the narrator, and the Watermelon, while maintaining the enigma of the object. At the end of the book, you won't know any more about the Watermelon really is than you do at the beginning, but it's a fun read getting there.
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Watermelon Ken Lakritz 9781484839546 Books Reviews
If Tom Robbins and Thomas Pynchon were forced to live inside an MIT staff lounge for five years and had to compose one novel together it might become Ken Lakritz' 'Watermelon'. Lakritz' 'Watermelon', set in a time a bit in our future, but not far enough away to be unrecognizable, takes our paranoia, our conspiracy theories, our personal and national politics and our species' Maypole dance of intellectual truth seeking and weaves a novel rich in ambiguity and understanding. A psychedelic merry-go-round of ideas from linguistics to physics through social history, Lakritz, a physician from Massachusetts, starts with a 'discovery' on a farm field in California and after a rich journey of investigation ultimately lands at 'love' and 'truth' but not without a wink that seems to warn us, "This game ain't over." Needless to say, I liked 'Watermelon' a lot. My only reservation was that I am simply not well versed enough to understand all of Lakritz' intellectual journeys. I would have liked to have the author sitting in the seat next to me as I read his book while flying between the US and Japan and back in between watching the romantic comedies of course. Judging from 'Watermelon', I think Ken Lakritz would have had something interesting to say about those as well.
Lakritz' first book is a science fiction fantasy about a very unusual object that turns up in a California melon patch. About the size of a basketball, it attracts attention at first for not looking like anything anyone has ever seen it looks like an empty black space, a hole in the visual field. The more people try to find out about it, the more unusual it seems. You can't measure it's exact dimensions, no matter how hard you try. Sometimes it seems to emit a red flash of light. Around this weird object is drawn an equally weird collection of people trying to figure out what it is. It will give away nothing to tell you that they don't succeed. As the groups gets to know each other, the relationships between them become more complex, the Watermelon gets more complex with the investigators.
You might enjoy the author's self-bemused ramblings on various side topics (but not as much as the he seems to). More likely, you'll just go through those parts quickly, and concentrate on the parts concerning Norma Loquendi, the central character, and the narrator. It goes quite quickly for a book of its length.
I commend Lakritz for a very successful denouement which resolves the open relationship between Norma, the narrator, and the Watermelon, while maintaining the enigma of the object. At the end of the book, you won't know any more about the Watermelon really is than you do at the beginning, but it's a fun read getting there.
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