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El asalto

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3.39 AVERAGE

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leopoldo_orozco's review

5.0

Una de las menos leídas de la Pentagonía es también de las mejores. Un giro poético y grotesco a la novela distópica y su juego del lenguaje como forma de control.

Reads like a mix of We, American Psycho, Dead/Alive and the back half of The Futurological Congress.

It's also the final of apparently 5 books the guy wrote about Castro's Cuba. Be interesting to see if he leads from a recognizable society into the brutal mutant hellscape nightmare of The Assault, or if that's just the setting, get used to it.

Reads like a mix of We, American Psycho, Dead/Alive and the back half of The Futurological Congress.

It's also the final of apparently 5 books the guy wrote about Castro's Cuba. Be interesting to see if he leads from a recognizable society into the brutal mutant hellscape nightmare of The Assault, or if that's just the setting, get used to it.