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Gathering Evidence
Gathering Evidence | Martin MacInnes
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With extinction imminent, researchers visit an exclusive national park to observe one of the last troops of bonobo chimpanzees. Amid unusual behaviour and unexplained deaths, Shel Murray suspects her team is being hunted. Back at home, Shel's partner is attacked touring their new property. Amnesiac and quarantined, John is visited by an inscrutable doctor, tending to the still fresh wounds. As his memory returns, John questions not only the assault, but the renewed marks on his body, and the black fungus now growing on the walls. A sudden event changes everything. Shel is interrogated over the expedition in the park; John throws himself into work, developing new software. Together, with a greater understanding of how much they have to lose, they face a grave threat, something that promises to devour everything.
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Gathering Evidence | Martin MacInnes
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No. Wtf? 200p of nature musings and info about the behaviour of bonobos, interspaced with on-the-nose metaphors about fog and fungi, a vaguely menacing mood, delusions, the juxtaposition of how we create synthetic patterns to make sense of the world but miss the hidden connections in nature. Then 100p of sudden action, death, trauma, grief, mundane explanations Vs possible paranoia. And then a non ending (I can infer, but I'm not impressed). 😒

RaeLovesToRead 😅🤣 9mo
TrishB No thank you. 9mo
batsy This actually sounds great when you put it like that! 😆 9mo
Leniverse @batsy 😂 Go for it. It just wasn't for me. Clearly others like his style because his latest book was longlisted for the Booker. 9mo
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Leniverse
Gathering Evidence | Martin MacInnes
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175 pages in this book seems to me to be 70% nature description and/or philosophising/angsting about the immediate environment, 25% describing and angsting about the characters' inner life, and 5% fungus analogy/plot. I don't entirely hate it, but I'm getting impatient.

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