Wednesday, July 25, 2012

2 out of 3

I liked two out of three of the books.


What Are Old People For? was a dull read.  I felt like I was really familiar with all of the information already, and it would have been better suited for someone with no background in aging.  It felt really repetitive, although the information was, as a whole, fairly valuable.  I am just not sure if there's much "new" information I gathered from it.  This could be a great read for someone entirely new to the field of Gerontology.

Still Alice definitely kept me interested.  There were a couple points when Alice got on my nerves.  I felt like the character was a little obnoxious, so it was hard to connect with her on that level.  Other than that, it was a good portrayal of early-onset Alzheimer's.  I think the author could have benefited from picking a different character as the protagonist.

The Postmortal was, by far, my favorite of the three.  I read it while I was on the train to Philadelphia every day for my internship.  I was always excited to pick it back up again.  It was an odd moment when I realized the main character was supposed to be a year younger than I am now (he was born in 1990.)  The ending was a little odd, but I guess there wasn't much farther the story could have been pushed.  There was definitely no "going back" to the world before the vaccine.  The author did a great job solving all of the problems I figured would arise.  When I was curious about how they would deal with disease, but then the Skeleton Key vaccine became a part of the story.  I spent a lot of time shifting between liking and disliking the protagonist.  I couldn't decided if he annoyed me or not.  I appreciated the "marriage" conflict that arose.  I think our society is a little mixed up about marriage, and this made me think a lot more about it.


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