Ben H. Winters
Författare till Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Om författaren
Writer Ben H. Winters graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1998. He is a journalist and playwright as well as an author, and he co-wrote the New York Times bestseller Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Serier
Verk av Ben H. Winters
Associerade verk
The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 390 exemplar
Manhattan Mayhem: New Crime Stories from Mystery Writers of America (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 187 exemplar
The Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers, and Dark Roads (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 53 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Winters, Ben H.
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Winters, Benjamin Allen H.
- Födelsedag
- 1976-06-14
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Maryland, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Utbildning
- Washington University (BA|1998)
- Yrken
- author
journalist
Playwright - Relationer
- Winters, Diana R. H. (wife)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Philip K. Dick Award (2013)
Edgar Award (2012)
Grand prix de L'Imaginaire (2019)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
The Last Policeman by Ben Winters i Post-apocalyptic Literature (september 2015)
Recensioner
A briskly moving story about a woman who’s kidnapped away from her infant daughter—except that she starts having memories of a different life entirely, perhaps related to a strange drug port on her chest. An FDA official tasked with investigating the source of the port becomes involved—as does the woman who did the initial kidnapping. Very noir ending.
The premise teeters on the edge of ridiculous, but manages to stay on the credible side. The descriptions of the slowly dissolving institutions bolster the plot. A fun ride; I look forward to reading the second book.
Wow.
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. This was ridiculously good. I always enjoy alternative history, but this made you think of all sorts of sociocultural/political/economic aspects that hadn’t occurred to me. The Civil War doesn’t happen, so slavery is still legal in the US (it’s of course here now, anybody eat commercially grown tomatoes, for example?)
And believe it or not, I enjoyed the audio. And I hate audio books. But William DeMerritt was brilliant in his narration.
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. This was ridiculously good. I always enjoy alternative history, but this made you think of all sorts of sociocultural/political/economic aspects that hadn’t occurred to me. The Civil War doesn’t happen, so slavery is still legal in the US (it’s of course here now, anybody eat commercially grown tomatoes, for example?)
And believe it or not, I enjoyed the audio. And I hate audio books. But William DeMerritt was brilliant in his narration.
Listor
ScaredyKIT 2019 (1)
Murder Mysteries (1)
MysteryCAT 2014 (1)
Reading 2017 (1)
Indie Next Picks (1)
Phoebe Bridgers (1)
Read in 2018 (1)
Favourite Books (3)
To Read (3)
Austenland (1)
Edgar Award (1)
To Read List (1)
Best Dystopias (1)
USA Road Trip (1)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 32
- Även av
- 10
- Medlemmar
- 9,638
- Popularitet
- #2,485
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 662
- ISBN
- 150
- Språk
- 14
- Favoritmärkt
- 4
It should have been a perfect listen for this sunny afternoon.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work out that way. I’m setting it aside a third of the way through because the humour doesn’t work for me. I don’t care about the world of Hollywood wannabes that it describes or the wimpy, can’t-get-his-act-together main character.
When the book failed to raise even a smile after the first ninety minutes, I gave up.
I’m filing it in that familiar category:
“It’s nice work if you can get it…but I don’t get it.”… (mer)