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Better than we ever did through Henry s eyes because he s awful The let down The ending of the book was trying so hard to be The Bourne Identity Cross country road trips with near strangers Changing cars and appearances Losing tails Tracking a ghostly memory that holds all the answers It even had the same open ended non ending I blame this hodgepodge on the author desperately trying to tie up all the loose ends left throughout the plot and not quite managing Also the fact that O Connor felt the need to marry Hannah off to Bert and slap a baby into the picture even as she continued to wait for Dickie to walk through her door drove me bananas Please tell me how that fits with the Hannah that walked out of her family home and never really looked back.

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As the story that O Connor tells carries its own weight and refuses to let itself drag 432 Too much mystery and insignificant descriptionI don t know what to think The story was good but I felt the author was trying to hard to be mysterious that he lost me so many times I do t really understand many parts of this book and I m not sure if I m supposed to I feel like the author was trying to put the reader in the same mental state of the people who were being experimented onmaybe he succeeded but the story was just confusing and boring for almost the first 60% I liked Untouchable by the same author but both books were relatively slow reads 432 Interesting premise and mostly well written.

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Which has now taken on not only hard times but the question of what Henry was involved in. Half world away I venture to say that readers who pick up this book will have put it down by the hundredth page It took me forever to read it as I kept debating if it was worth going on The book is not very well put together and does little to keep the readers interest The characters are confusing and hard to keep within the continuity of the story The story does little to explain the experiments that were carried out and their consequences. Half world lit crossword clue Unless I missed something very vital to the novel I was disappointed in a novel that might have had some promise 432

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Inspired by real CIA operations the riveting novel of a fraying CIA analyst who conducts secret mind control experiments and the young agent who years later uncovers the appalling legacy of the program and the people destroyed by it In the 1950s the CIA began a clandestine operation known as Project MKULTRA in which unwitting American citizens were subjected to insidious drug and mind control experiments In the two decades the program ran a nation s trust was betrayed and countless lives and families were destroyed Haunted and inspired by these real life events acclaimed novelist Scott O Connor has crafted a riveting tour de force literary thriller that vividly imagines the devastating emotional legacy of such a program through the eyes of one of its unexpected victims CIA analyst Henry March an unassuming company man forced to spearhead MKULTRA s San Francisco branch finds himself bridging an untenable divide between his devotion to his wife and children his beloved Hannah and sweet autistic Thomas and the brutality of his daily task Torn between duty and conscience Henry s own identity begins to fray until he finally reaches the ultimate breaking point Amid the wreckage Henry March disappears without a trace taking with him the evidence of his sins and becoming the deepest ULTRA mystery of all Twenty years later as the country struggles under the weight of the Vietnam War another troubled young agent will risk everything to find Henry protect Hannah and piece together the staggering aftermath of the crimes before it s too late Hailed as one to watch Los Angeles Times especially for his ability to make something beautiful of unspeakable matters The New York Times O Connor has crafted a stunning sensitive and psychologically astute look at the depths to which a government will sink in service of its own power and the strength required of the human spirit to set itself free Gorgeous and unflinching Half World is both a page turning drama and a transcendent celebration of our enduring capacity for hope Half WorldScott O Connor is the author of the novels Zero Zone Untouchable and Half World and the story collection A Perfect Universe. Half worldbreaker He has been awarded the Barnes Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and his stories have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Story Prize and cited as Distinguished in Best American Short Stories Additional work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine The Paris Review Zyzzyva and The Los Angeles Review of Books Scott O Connor is the author of the novels Zero Zone Untouchable and Half World and the story collection A Perfect Universe. Half world tv series He has been awarded the Barnes Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and his stories have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Story Prize and cited as Distinguished in Best American Short Stories Additional work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine The Paris Review Zyzzyva and The Los Angeles Review of Books site_link I generally don t like to read thrillers or spy novels but I got drawn into this one It s based on the CIA s MKultra experiments of the Cold War era look MKultra up if you haven t heard of it it s stranger than any fiction and very disturbing O Conner did a good job showing how participating in torture can transform people who are otherwise good into something different The characters were interesting and the story kept me wanting to know what would happen next The only drawback for me was the depiction of the Sons of Liberty I liked the idea of the group but they didn t seem as real as the other characters This was a goodreads giveaway and I recommend it It would make a good movie 432 2. Book Half worldstarhiphop 5 5 432 It was a good story but a tough read 432 Why Read Ask anyone and they will regal you with tales of how much I adore the Cold War Whether it s stories of espionage or wartime recollections I am immediately caught without fail Half World was no different It was one of the books that has been on my TBR list for quite some time and this winter holiday season felt like the perfect time to read it Review When you start reading Half World it begins with a bit of a confused vibe Who is Henry what is happening to him and why does the American dream family of four seem to have so much wrong with them You don t know What happened in Arlington and why are they moving to California Uncertainty reigns Then slowly a picture begins to form Something horrible is happening and Henry is a part of it In fact the part of the synopsis that covers a young agent working with Hannah to uncover the horrors of MKULTRA doesn t actually begin until quite late in the book On one hand I enjoyed that The distinct amount of uncertainty whenever a new chapter began was exciting Whether or not O Connor meant it as such the book radiated out the same confusion and lack of coherent strategy as MKULTRA drug effects even matching the autism of Henry s son Beyond being confusing the book was entrancing One of my favourite moments that stuck with me was watching Henry attempting to create a separation between himself as an agent and himself as a person If he let them come together there would be a danger presented not only to his familybut also to his own sanity. Literature Fiction Half world cup The pace of the book went quickly although in the second half there is much to be said for character development The secondary agent who changes his mind about what he s meant to be doing whether through unwanted drug therapy or not undergoes drastic changes that seem perplexing until you think about the dramatic impacts of psychological manipulation In short there s a lot of good in this book but if you want to read it there s a certain about of work you have to put in yourself I could not speed read this book to any great affect Instead it took significant effort to push myself and think Okay this character isn t acting as I expect her to which means there could be a MKULTRA reason or there could be a life reason which is the one that I want to focus on Overall an interesting read. Half worldbox download Rating 4 5 Stars 432 A literary thriller with surreal elements which handled the ambiguous theme of identity with disarming clarity Found this incredibly gripping especially how O Connor handles the different eras with cinematic precision The first third of the book takes place in the 50s which felt deeply Kubrickian meticulous haunting and unsettling The later events felt like they mirrored the acid washed hallucinatory exploitation films of the early 70s Also this has one of the best villains I ve read in a long time 432 Half World is one of those books that bites off way than it can chew The premise was promising but at the same time I wondered how O Connor would manage to fit everything that the book claims to be about between its two covers The answer He didn t manage What resulted was a semi enjoyable government conspiracy novel that will probably not stick with me for much longer than it takes to read the next book on my shelf There are three distinct sections that make up Half World The setup The first 30% of the book is as dry and methodical as I assume Henry s ledger would have been The episodes are repetitive and as a veteran of the tv show Fringe not particularly horrifying or surprising I HATED Dorne and Clark Additionally Henry is awful as a narrative subject and as a human being He is dreadfully boring and has the emotional range of a brick wall If we were supposed to empathize with his identity struggles and despair in his descent into the void of MKULTRA and subsequent disappearancethen something got lost in translation because I didn t give two shits about Henry March The meat The middle third is why Half World merits 3 stars The plot here is populated by dynamic interesting characters with compelling backgrounds that clearly defined their motivations and actions I m a huge fan of showing rather than telling and this is where O Connor actually excelled In the first third we are constantly told things We are told about Henry s past we are told about the early stages of MKULTRA we are told that these are bad men doing terrible things to mostly innocent people Boring In the middle section of the book we are shown how Hannah s and Dickie s pasts have shaped them We are shown what has become of MKULTRA test subjects We are even shown what it was like to be a test subject when Dickie is captured and subjected to some of those horrors His mental breakdown while tied and hooded was particularly compelling and believable Through Dickie we actually see and understand these former test subjects as human beings content to live on her own and provide for herself Sloppy I m still not really sure what the title is supposed to mean in relation to the plot. Book Half worldstarhiphop but I know what it means in relation with the book overall and my opinion of it Half World because we never really get the full story on anything 432 Normally when I make the FTC required disclosure that I am writing a review based on a free review copy of a book I throw in a canned disclosure at the end of the review Not so with Half World by Scott O Connor While most of the books I get to review for free are decent enough O Connor s writing is so compelling that I will be purchasing his few previous works and anything new that he pens O Connor is good Really really good So then This review is based off of a free review copy provided by the publisher. EPub Half world cup Half World is a stylized novel tracing the lives of a few individuals involved in and impacted by Cold War era experiments with mind control Rather than questioning the over arching policies of a government that would sanction such experimentation on its citizens and rather than pretending to assign some sinister reasoning to the agencies that would carry out such orders O Connor goes right to the front lines and lays out a 25 year long drama with very real consequences for those involved. Book Half worldstarhiphop O Connor tells this story in multiple parts often clipped and chilling not unlike the perspiration on a cold bottle of beer O Connor clearly talented chose layers and shades over the heavy breathing and novelties all too commonly employed in edge of your seat drama Half World doesn t suffer from this decision but ultimately unsatisfying The stream of consciousness style gets old very quickly as do the constantly shifting verb tenses and character perspectives I get that it s all supposed to be very vague and mysterious but for me it just needed something some kind of revelation or at least just of the missing pieces falling closer into place I m not asking for everything to spelled out bluntly in capital letters and for all loose ends to be tied up neatly in a pretty bow I do think that to create elaborate characters with multiple identities and motivations and do nothing with why or how those came to be and why they re even needed does a disservice to this truly compelling and deeply unsettling subject matter Maybe I just wanted something salacious and gruesome conspiracy theory than patiently worded literary thriller I received a copy of this book through the GoodReads Program 432 Half World by Scott O Connor published by Simon and Schuster. Book Half worldstarhiphop Category Fiction Literature Publication Date February 18 2014Henry March is an analyst for the CIA in the 1950 s and he becomes an integral part of a project that uses drug and mind control experiments on unknowing and unwitting American Citizens. Book Half world map Henry is torn between his duty to his country and his belief in what is right and wrong His devotion to his family also plays into his decision to abandon his part in the program Unfortunately a tremendous amount of damage has already been done and there seems no way to undue the damage. Book Half world cup Henry although devoted to his family disappears Henry not only disappears from the project but also from his family He takes with him all the evidence of his culpability in the project, Half world lit crossword clue Twenty years after his disappearance an attempt is made to find Henry ad protect his family.