State of Wonder

As Dr Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the insect infested , she will be forced to surrender herself to the lush but forbidding world that awaits within the jungle Charged with finding her former mentor Dr Annick Swenson, a researcher who has disappeared while working on a valuable new drug, she will have to confront her own memories of tragedy and sacrifice as she journeys into the unforgiving heart of darkness. Free Download State of Wonder [ by ] Ann Patchett [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here This book never felt right The characters were weak and hard to identify with, the plot seemed like something of a time past yet wasn t , and the outcome of it all was ridiculous The book would head in one direction for a while, then veer wildly in another My pet peeve is when authors play fast and loose with characters and established world facts in order to advance plots Lazy Let s go for a ride American researcher dead in the jungle and his colleague goes to Brazil to find outR This book never felt right The characters were weak and hard to identify with, the plot seemed like something of a time past yet wasn t , and the outcome of it all was ridiculous The book would head in one direction for a while, then veer wildly in another My pet peeve is when authors play fast and loose with...Alas, I did not reach a state of wonder reading this I would say I was in State s of Interest, Appreciation, Mild Irritation, Interest Modified by Moments of Irritation, Shock, and then Milder Shock that dwindled into a State of General Annoyance, which would possibly make it the longest book title in history.A super summary Although she train...I thought that Ann Patchett had made her great contribution to literature with Bel Canto, which seemed to me to be the perfect novel, and stays high on the list of my very favorites It is the book that I sold by hand as a bookseller and the book that I still pass along to friends I should keep a stack of them since I have handed mine off so many times that I never know if I have a copy or not The book is a jewel box of structure, character, and language that left me overwhelmed with admirat I thought that Ann Patchett had made her great contribution to literature with Bel Canto, which seemed to me to be the perfect novel, and stays high on the list of my very favorites It is the book that I sold by hand as a bookseller and the book that I still pass along to friends I should keep a stack of them since I have handed mine off so many times that I never know if I have a copy or not The book is a jewel box of structure, character, and language that left me overwhelmed with admiration Since reading that book, I have read Patchett s other books and enjoyed them all, particula...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Mistah Kurtz, he dead, well, Mr Eckman anyway At Minnesota based Vogel pharmaceuticals, weeks old news of bio researcher Anders Eckman s ian demise leads the company to send another scientist to find out what happened, and to complete Eckman s charge He had been sent to determine the status of research, on a long overdue revolutionary fertility drug, being conducted by ...A scientific jungle experiment investigation involving an elderly and rather secretive matriarchal doctor who leads the experiment, a missing deceased company representative who was sent to investigate what the experiment is up to, and a female company representative who happens to also be a former medical student of the matriarch who is sent to investigate what happened to the previous company representative.In spite of lengthy descriptions of the experiment and professorial soliloquising by A scientific jungle experiment investigation involving an elderly and rather secretive matriarchal doctor who leads the experiment, a missing deceased company representative who was sent to investigate what the experiment is up to, and a female company representative who happens to also be a former medical student of the matriarch who...This marks the third time that I have dipped into the writing pool of Ann Patchett and let me tell you, she does not disappoint Dr Marina Singh embarks on a trip to Brazil in an effort to determine two things What happened to her colleague, who had died there scant weeks ago and what kind of progress was being made by her former mentor in the development of a new fertility drug that was being funded by her pharmaceutical company Both of these tasks prove to be most complex and difficult to a This marks the third time that I have di...This novel was just what I ve been looking for this summer a dazzling story, a meaty pile of ethical questions, characters that endure long after the book is over, and prose that getsbeautiful theyou notice it I didn t love the novel s end it was a bit too rushed for me, and the sudden pile on of action left me wantingof the slow build up that carried us to the climax It occurs to me, though, that wantingof a book is as good a sign as any that it won me over completel This novel was just what I ve been looking for this summer a dazzling story, a meaty pile of ethical questions, ...After all the rave reviews, my expectations were high But this is no Bel Canto The infuriatingly hapless heroine does not look ahead to scout out minor everyone knows to pack some necessities in carry on luggage, including cell phone or major consequences of her actions and is locked in past failures and losses one grows tired of her lost father nightmares and all her screaming One could also hope for subtler symbolism and metaphors, less stilted dialogue,skillful writing For example After all the rave reviews, my expectations were high But this is no Bel Canto The infuriatingly hapless heroine does not look ahead to scout out minor everyone knows to pack some necessities in carry on luggage, including cell phone or major consequences of her actions and is locked in past failures and losses one grows tired of her lost father nightmares and all her screaming One could also hope for subtler symbolism and metaphors, less stilted dialogue,skillful writing For example, the plot mires down in Manaus with minutiae of daily discomforts and too many days of waiting In contrast, once Marina arrives in the jungle, we would actually likeminutiae about the basics of living there.Frivolous notes I heard Patchett on a local radio show she sounds like someone who is a lot of fun and a good friend and she described naming two characters for a Nashville couple who bought the oppo...I really wanted to like this book After all, there are all the raving reviews, and it s the kind of story that usually grabs and holds my interest jungle adventure medical drama , but I couldn t finish it In fact, I gave up after the 4th disc the audio book has 11 discs The story plods on like the stifling heat of the jungle, so slow, that it was all padding and no plot for almost half of the book The author wrote painstaking all the tedious details of Marina s past she has father issu I really wanted to like this book After all, there are all the raving reviews, and it s the kin...I won t give too much detail you need to read this spoiler free It s deliciously gloomy and atmospheric, a dark adventure with Hitchcock style suspense You d expect a fearless heroine in a novel like this instead you get Dr Marina Singh, a neurotic woman with a really bad case of low self esteem quite content with her life as a pharmacologist That is till her boss lover Mr Fox exactly the kind of ass insecure women go for bullies her into taking on the quest of finding a missing c I won t give too much detail you need to read this spoiler free It s deliciously gloomy and atmospheric, a dark adventure with Hitchcock style suspense You d expect a fearless heroine in a novel like this instead you get Dr Marina Singh, a neurotic woman with a really bad case of low self esteem quite content with her life as a pharmacologist That is till her boss lover Mr Fox exactly the kind of ass insecure women go for bul...

• English
• 10 April 2018
Ann Patchett
• Hardcover
• 353 pages
• 0062049801
• Ann Patchett
• State of Wonder