Borne (CD-Audio)

from Amysuzannej

This book is about a dystopian world although it is focused in one extremely messed up city. The city has been cast into ruins by a biotech company called The Company. They have created a monster named Mord that is destroying everything and everybody. Mord was formed by the company as a giant bea...

from SassyBrit

I am reviewing Borne by Jeff VanderMeer. Here are my thoughts:^^ Rachel's a scavenger trying to survive in a destroyed world that is littered with biotech experiments the Company have discarded and nothing is ever what it seems. She meets Wick who makes his own way, by dealing with all sorts of t...

from lisapeet

I put a hold on this on a total whim (yet another reason why the library is great: because impulse reading is good when impulse spending is not). I don't read a ton of sf these days, although once upon a time, late teens/early 20s, this kind of gnarly dystopian fiction was totally my thing-it mat...

from Dokfintong

You either like Jeff VanderMeer or you don't. I like his books a lot. "Borne" has been so widely reviewed there is little else that I can add. I think it is important to note that the publisher's blurbs saying that this is a book built on an environmental catastrophe are wrong. This is a book abo...

from leo_depart

A weaponized Barbapapa is raised in a post-apokalyptic city terrorized by a oversized flying bear. I like weird, and VanderMeer certainly delivers in this regard. There are some fantastic dialogs between Borne (the shape-shifting entity) and Rachel (the main character and narrator) and the world ...