Unsong

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Aaron Smith Teller works in a kabbalistic sweatshop in Silicon Valley, where he and hundreds of other minimum wage workers try to brute force the Holy Names of God All around him, vast forces have been moving their pieces into place for the final confrontation An overworked archangel tries to debug the laws of physics Henry Kissinger transforms the ancient conflict between Heaven and Hell into a US Soviet proxy war A Mexican hedge wizard with no actual magic wreaks havoc using the dark art of placebomancy The Messiah reads a book by Peter Singer and starts wondering exactly what it would mean to do as much good as possibleAaron doesn t care about any of this He and his not quite girlfriend Ana are engaged in something far important griping about magical intellectual property law But when a chance discovery brings them into conflict with mysterious international magic intellectual property watchdog UNSONG, they find themselves caught in a web of plots, crusades, and prophecies leading inexorably to the end of the world. Free Download Unsong By Scott Alexander For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr A very decent story made utterly glorious by the indiscriminate use of terrible puns.Very interesting idea, intriguing characters, excellent world building, good writing, and the puns, oh the puns The Norse speak of Jormungand, the World Serpent, who circles the earth to grasp its own tail The Babylonians say that the heavens and earth were built from the corpse of the primordial sea dragon Tiamat Even the atheists represent the cosmos as part of a great whale, saying that the whole world is...I loved the book I guess the genre would be Kabbalah punk adventure We needof these I should read Foucault s Pendulum.Would I recommend it I don t know Depends if you like shameless puns and wordplay or are annoyed by them Even though it deals with fairly complicated things like meaning of good and is in general set in a dys...Enjoyed it immensely It s not five stars because of some issues in pacing and chapter arrangement, things that I suspect those will be worked on and edited out of this goes to a publisher which Scott has said is a possibility The world building is excellent, the humor is decidedly groan worthy unless it involves an angel and an 8 year old girl in which case it becomes oh so cute , and there s a lot of nerd treats sprinkled around The characters are pretty shallow though, and there s so m Enjoyed it immensely It s not five stars because of some issues in pacing and chapter arrangement, things that I suspect those will be work...Unsong is a just finished serial novel by the author of Slate Star Codex, the best blog that is currently updating It is set in a world where Kabbalistic Judaism and some form of Gnostic Christianity are true, and cracks have formed, letting the magic leak into the everyday world One of the beginning plot points is a computer which churns through all possible names of god to determine which ones have power, called Llull If you ve read my book, you can see why I would be interested.Unsong is Unsong is a just finished serial novel by the author of Slate Star Codex, the best blog that is currently updating It is set in a world where Kabbalistic Judaism and some form of Gnostic Christianity are true, and cracks have formed, letting the magic leak into the everyday world One of the beginning plot points is a computer which churns through all possible names of god to determine which ones have power, called Llull If you ve read my book, you can see why I would be interested.Unsong is uneven by the usual standards by which we normally judge fiction The plot is poorly paced, told out of order for reasons that are hard to discern, and fairly unsatisfying though the end reminded me of the excellent Eisenheim the Illusionist But itthan makes up for this with other features the way it plays with words and symbols, the connections between ancient magic and m...at first I found it too dense, but I m glad I stuck with it It is what Hitchhiker s Guide To The Galaxy might be if it was centered on religion and spirituality instead of Sci Fi.Do you like puns If so, read this If not, read this and ignore the puns.Very interesting and unique worldbuilding Start from the premise that all Jewish law is actually correct Impossible, right In conflict with all the evidence, and has logical contradictions and absurdities by the score OK, but assume it s all true anyway, and Alexander will take you on a long, strange and funny voyage to understand what such a world would be like Just the basic world exploration would be enough to keep you engaged, but Alexander also weaves some solid adventure stories in at Very interesting and unique worldbuilding Start from the premise that all Jewish law is actually correct Impossible, right In conflict with all the evidence, and has logical contradictions and absurdities by the score OK, but assume it s all true anyway, and Alexander will take you on a long, strange and funny voyage to understand what such a world would be like Just the basic world exploration would be enough to keep you engaged, but Alexander also weaves some solid adventure stories in at the same time.At the climax of the story, we learn the solution to t...This book started off really strong and despite my not knowing much of the details of the Jewish religion that this book is heavily influenced by, I was engrossed in it It brought enough humor and intriguing character development that I was actually interested in the religious lore Even though I m an Apthiest, by definition someone who doesn t care about religion I still enjoy a good story though I especially liked how it brought together the concepts of magic, modern corporate society, and This book started off really strong and despite my not knowing much of the details of the Jewish religion that this book is heavily influenced by, I was engrossed in it It brought enough humor and intriguing character development that I was actually interested in the religious lore Even though I m an Apthiest, by definition someone who do...This is free original web fiction Kabbalah features heavily, in the sense of kabbalah that means really terrible puns.This was endlessly creative, but not particularly well plotted.Most of the chapters are present for reasons of let me show you this awesome world I built, and let me make some terrible puns along the way.Very few of the chapters advance the plot Er, not to spoiler too hard, but from a Conventional Story perspective the plot is actually pretty disappointing Aaron and hi This is free original web fiction Kabbalah features heavily, in the sense of kabbalah that means really terrible puns.This was endlessly creative, but not particularly well plotted.Most of the chapters are present for reasons of let me show you this awesome world I built, and let me make some terrible puns along the way.Very few of the chapters advance the plot Er, not to spoiler too hard, but from a Conventional Story perspective the plot is actually pretty disappointing Aar...

Unsong
  • English
  • 13 December 2017
  • ebook
  • 658 pages
  • Scott Alexander
  • Unsong