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tapestry100 (306 KP) rated The Great Divide in Books

Jul 26, 2017

The Great Divide

Ben Fisher, Art by Adam Markiewicz | 2017 | Comics & Graphic Novels

8.0

(1 Ratings)

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A dark and gritty near future dystopia where a mysterious plague has fallen on mankind, where the slightest contact of bare flesh will cause immediate death for one of those being touched, but there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to who lives or dies. On top of that, the survivor also then carries around in their head the persona of the person they killed. This can sometimes cause madness in the survivor, but some can coexist with their new passenger. Of course, with no physical skin-to-skin contact possible, sex is off-limits but brothels survive, with watching, no touching, rules in place. Isolation becomes the means of survival, but with that isolation also comes the end of the human race. That is, until two unlikely allies possibly discover the cause of the plague, and possibly a means to undo it.

The Great Divide is definitely not for the lighthearted. This is a very grim look at humanity and what happens when all means of physical contact is stripped away. It is a violent, sexualized dystopia that Ben Fisher and Adam Markiewicz give us, but it is still a story about the resilience of the human spirit.

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The Forest

6.3 (12 Ratings) Rate It

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As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to...

Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Robinson Crusoe in Books

Oct 10, 2017 (Updated Oct 11, 2017)

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe, Andrew Cullum | 1719 | Fiction & Poetry

6.0

(10 Ratings)

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Outdated colonial claptrap

I didn't particularly like this book even as a child, especially its overt racist storyline. Robinson Crusoe, an explorer and wanderer, at one point becomes a slave owner, aligning himself with other planters and undertaking a trip to Africa in order to bring back a shipload of slaves. At this point, he survives a storm and a shipwreck and ends up as the sole survivor. Because of the initial plot, I found it difficult to sympathise with his plight. They also speak of cannibalism, addressing others as "savages". It's a colonial tale that has become outdated.

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Gilles (2883 KP) rated Ingress - The Animation in TV

May 10, 2019

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Ingress: The Animation (2018)

Ingress (or Ingress: The Animation) is a 2018 Japanese anime television series based on Niantic's augmented reality mobile game of the same name. The story follows special police investigator Makoto, who has the power to read the memories of objects he touches. While investigating a laboratory explosion that was researching an unknown substance called "XM", he touches the ring of a woman who was the sole survivor of the explosion and sees a horrifying vision that embroils him in a massive conspiracy. @IMDb Movies & TV rates it 8/10, I do the same.