Upgrade

Paperback, 448 pages

français language

Published Oct. 5, 2023

ISBN:
978-2-35178-319-1
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4 stars (11 reviews)

Blake Crouch est scénariste et écrivain. Traduit dans plus de 30 pays, il est l'auteur d'une douzaine de romans, dont Recursion, Dark Matter et la trilogie Wayward Pines, adaptée en série pour la télévision par la FOX et réalisée par M. Night Shyamalan. Il vit avec sa famille dans le Colorado.

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reviewed Upgrade by Blake Crouch

A lire comme on regarde un bon Marvel

3 stars

C'est dans le titre ! Upgrade est un très bon Marvel. Tout y est : - Le gentil et la méchante, que tout rapproche, mais que tout oppose, tous deux dotés de super-pouvoirs. - Le monde est sauvé par le gentil face aux intentions de la méchante. - Une technologie nouvelle, source des super-pouvoirs, mais dont l'usage est détourné par la méchante (inconsciente qu'elle est !). - Le happy-end. - Et même la séquence post-générique, pour faire réfléchir.

Même sentiment ambivalent, donc, que devant un bon Marvel. La portée philosophie de l'œuvre n'est clairement pas le but. Ce n'est pas de la science-fiction non plus, tant la science est maltraitée. Ce n'est pas vraiment du fantastique. En résumé : c'est une histoire de supers-héros, comme on les aime ! Car oui, Upgrade fait passer un excellent moment, et se laisse difficilement mettre de côté.

Et si l'on veut trouver une …

An easy read

3 stars

Not his best work yet. Recursion, which got me hooked on the author and made me read Dark Matter, has a sort of elegance that both Dark Matter and Upgrade lacks. It's a fun, intense and easy read on an interesting topic for sure - just not as refined as Recursion.

OK

3 stars

Upgrade is not his previous two books I recently read, Recursion, or Dark Matter. Upgrade seemed to me uninspired. It felt to me like he needed to write another book, so came up with this story, rather than the other way around, where he had a story he wanted to tell, and so wrote a book. It was OK to read though.

Review of 'Upgrade' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Having really enjoyed [b:Dark Matter|27833670|Dark Matter|Blake Crouch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1472119680l/27833670.SY75.jpg|43161998] and [b:Recursion|42046112|Recursion|Blake Crouch|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1543687940l/42046112.SY75.jpg|64277987] I had high expectations of this one. Unfortunately, I can't say that they were met. So many things about this book annoyed me, including what I would call the "flying car" syndrome of putting too much detail in explaining how things would work in the future, as if the character is deliberately telling a story to someone from the present. Listing dozens of random gene names that literally mean nothing to anyone except perhaps people with degrees in molecular biology doesn't really do anything for the story, except make you think that the author copied and pasted from a textbook. Too much science, too little fiction. Annoying.

I'm going to stop here. I'm glad to see that others enjoyed the book. I look forward to enjoying the next [a:Blake Crouch|442240|Blake Crouch|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1479398727p2/442240.jpg] book...

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