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    The Purple Cloud

    By Matthew Phipps Shiel

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    Sheil's free-flowing and persuasive style of writing produces a convincing portrait of Adam Jefferson -- a man who, upon returning alone from an expedition to the North Pole, learns that a world-wide catastrophe has left him the last man on Earth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateApr 25, 2014
    ISBN9781609778712

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    • 2/5
      The purple cloud 2/5This book could have been so good. The concept was great and i appreciate the time period that it was written in but geeze its boring at times. It took a month, yes a whole month to read this book, if it took out half of the the repetitive words it would have been half the length! I know repetition is good for emphasis but this was over board. I found i was getting to a few really good pages then to be met by 20 odd boring ones which i couldnt of cared less about and it added nothing to the story, this author loves pointless padding! Its far to over descriptive in places and you find your self just willing the book to get shorter so its out of the way. The 2 star is mainly for the concept and i actually managed to finish it but i wouldn't recommend it as i would with other classics.
    • 2/5
      (An 80) (A 110) year-old 'last man on earth' fable. I had trouble with the vocabulary, allusions and references, as not only is it old but it's British, and it has pretensions of being literary philosophy rather than just a good thoughtful story. If you get a kick out of sentences that are almost a page long maybe this would intrigue you. I just wished he'd get to the point - it took me much too long to read.

      I do admit that it presented a different take on the protagonist's perspective - that it, this last man has a different attitude and strategy than others of whom I've read. So, I dunno, maybe 2.5 stars.

      If you do read it, please tell me if the first section, the frame, serves any thematic perspective or is just pragmatic.