NEUROPATH

NEUROPATH

NEUROPATH

Introduction

Neuropath" is authoring R. Scott Bakker's first foray into the nebulous classes of "adult fiction" and "thriller". He centers the novel on a hypothetical near-future world where technology and understanding of neuroscience has reached the point where it is possible for scientists to manipulate the brain, and even consciousness itself. The result of his effort is a novel that is at times profoundly creepy (Bakker has a gift for writing some really distracting scenes), at times enlightening, but mostly a bit tough to get through due to the somewhat weak execution and prose of the novel.

Discussion

In this novel the writer has his own definition. He says love is not a sacrifice but it's a feeling for each other. The novel is founded round the feature Thomas Bible, a separated psychologist lifting his juvenile kids in a near-future suburban New York (the book not ever donates an exact date, but there are subtle signs - like an off-hand commentary from Thomas on how he was too juvenile at the time to realize the 9-11 terrorist attacks when they happened). However, a visit from his long-time ally Neil Cassidy (a bright neuroscientist) starts a process in which he gets drawn more and more into a lawless person case, all of which is part of a web that his so-called ally" (the primary antagonist of the publication) has woven for him.

NEUROPATH pursues the PoV of Tom Bible, a psychologist. People have read Bakker before; the occupation of the PoV should arrive as no surprise. Tom is separated with two children, and his connection with his ex-wife is gravely strained. The major contrive of the article focuses on Tom assisting the FBI find his ally Neil, who has been employed with the NSA on the study and implementation of manipulating people's brains. (Bakker 2009)

The definition of love has been justified through various examples and has provided a broader view on love. Neil has evidently gone off the deep-end, and is abducting and torturing persons by messing with their cerebral functions. Yeah, it's a cooling concept. The novel's tag-line, "You are not what you believe you are," assists as the centered topic of the novel, and is furthermore its utmost flaw. Half of the novel engages beside maid-and-butler scenes where one feature expends sheets interpreting a notion to another character. The first time it occurred, I could pardon it, because it was well written. After occurrence a couple of dozen times, although, it tended to wipe me wrong. Essentially, it's as if we the readers are reading a transcribed dialogue between a psychology lecturer and his unconvinced student. The notions are clarified well, and the composing is truly unbelievable, but the straightforward detail that Bakker is "telling vs. showing" is exceedingly problematic.

The novel and its major individual characteristics take a very powerful nihilistic outlook on life. We are machines. We have no free will. There is no God. Our minds are organic computers that mechanically answer to variables and origin our ...