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Simply put, I wish more contemporary science fiction was this smart and thoughtful. "Genocidal Organ" follows the adventures of a Special Forces soldier as he hunts down the person apparently responsible for spreading genocide around the world -- via a subtle linguistic pattern he embeds in a country's speeches, advertisements and other media. Humanity's capacity for killing each other over perceived ethnic and national divisions is conceived metaphorically as the organ of the title, just another part of our minds and bodies, able to be manipulated by the proper stimuli. Author Project Itoh imagines a very grim but not all that implausible near-future, and he stocks the book with plenty of philosophical musings -- but musings that have real, day-to-day implications as well as casting light on larger issues of how our world is ordered and maintained. The book isn't without flaws, but they are minor and hardly dealbreakers. The novel is highly readable with a gripping narrative and a fascinating villain. The narrator, too, is refreshingly reflective and un-macho. Very enjoyable, with lots of meat on the bone. You don't really think about how rare this combination is these days until you pick up a book like this one, making the also-rans feel like the fluff they really are.


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Genocidal Organ Project Itoh 9781421542720 Books Reviews

I had high hopes for this book with the opening pages, but 1/2 way through I decided to put it down for good. There are a few reasons I could not continue. 1) There numerous plot developments, usually minor ones, that seem completely implausible or where the author glosses over what would be obvious and important factors that would influence the plausibility of the plot. I won't give examples - that would be a spoiler. But as an unrelated scenario, imagine you have a world class runner who is being chased by clumsy group of bad guys, and they catch him. Wait. What? Or someone sneaks into the White House by going through a side door. Wait. What? Just like that. These holes, that seem completely inconsistent with the characters and plot to that point go completely unexplained and glossed over. In summary, certain things happen to easily when they shouldn't. Characters get away with ridiculous transgressions that are not consistent with the rest of the story. Maybe the author was just too lazy to construct a more complex narrative. 2) I could deal with #1, but this next one just killed the book for me. The author interrupts the flow of the story on numerous occasions to wax philosophical, or to have two characters (or one) spend pages and pages debating over academic subjects that are perhaps tangentially related to the storyline, yet seem simply the author's desire to insert didactic ramblings about dry topics. It's as if he has peppered the book with non-fictional essays he wrote while doing graduate work in the humanities. I had to skip over these sections because they interrupted the flow of the story and became intolerably boring. In the end, I think this could have been a great book, but these diversions into snore-worthy intellectual rambling killed it for me.
Amazing book well worth the read. The story is gripping and compelling to were you don't want to put it down. If your looking for a dark, compelling, action filled story this is it.
Was a gift for my son! He loved it
There is one interesting theme that comes out in this story that you have to wait to the end to get the full idea but for entire sections it dragged on about nothing really at all
It took me some time to finish the book since I lose interest easily, but this book was surprisingly really nice. I get lost sometimes because of the terms used in the book, but most of them are described when first introduced. The book was very easy to follow and had some really interesting concepts that I've never seen before. All of Project Itoh's novels have a similar feel to them, so if you liked Harmony or the Empire of Corpses, you will probably like this one!
Some have said that the translation was a bit clunky, but I disagree. Part of what makes this tory so wonderful and real is how it perfectly captures the nature of thought. The MC will be thinking about what he is about to do, and something about it thrusts his mind into a memory, and with those memories come so many complex emotions - and the writing navigates through all of these jumps beautifully. I personally don't feel that anything is lost through the translation. This was an amazing story that made me feel things, and grounds the reader a bit. I will definitely be visiting this novel again.
The premise for this was quite good and much of the story is well executed.
The problem for me was, alot of the book tends to go off on tangential philosophical ramblings. These range from the nature of existence to that of free will and beyond.
Not only does this slow the story, it feels like being forced to endure an intro to philosophy class. For me, it really detracted from the experience and made finishing it a chore.
Simply put, I wish more contemporary science fiction was this smart and thoughtful. "Genocidal Organ" follows the adventures of a Special Forces soldier as he hunts down the person apparently responsible for spreading genocide around the world -- via a subtle linguistic pattern he embeds in a country's speeches, advertisements and other media. Humanity's capacity for killing each other over perceived ethnic and national divisions is conceived metaphorically as the organ of the title, just another part of our minds and bodies, able to be manipulated by the proper stimuli. Author Project Itoh imagines a very grim but not all that implausible near-future, and he stocks the book with plenty of philosophical musings -- but musings that have real, day-to-day implications as well as casting light on larger issues of how our world is ordered and maintained. The book isn't without flaws, but they are minor and hardly dealbreakers. The novel is highly readable with a gripping narrative and a fascinating villain. The narrator, too, is refreshingly reflective and un-macho. Very enjoyable, with lots of meat on the bone. You don't really think about how rare this combination is these days until you pick up a book like this one, making the also-rans feel like the fluff they really are.