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title: "The Flame Alphabet (Vintage Contemporaries)"
brand: "ben marcus"
price: "S/.131"
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# The Flame Alphabet (Vintage Contemporaries)

**Brand:** ben marcus
**Price:** S/.131
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- **What is this?** The Flame Alphabet (Vintage Contemporaries) by ben marcus
- **How much does it cost?** S/.131 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    Don't waste your time.
  

*by S***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 15, 2014*

I thoroughly disliked this book.  For starters, the premise is incredibly interesting, and it's what drew me to the book, but the book doesn't seem to realize that.  Every blurb I read about it mentioned the core premise: the voices of children make their parents ill.  However, the book and its characters seem to stubbornly deny this fact as long as possible.  It treats it as a mystery when the readers likely already know and the characters have been given more than enough information to come to that conclusion themselves.  It's painful.Then, it goes completely off the rails.  I wasn't expecting hard science, but shortly after it begins, it seems to make no sense whatsoever.  There's no logic to anything that happens.  This wouldn't be so bad if it didn't seem to be the focal point of the book.  Large portions of the story are about the main character and the people around him trying to figure out what is going on, which they never seem to do.  There is no moment where what's happening with the illness and its various cures makes sense.What's worse though is the main character.  At no point did he ever seem to know what he wanted or why he was doing what he was doing.*This may get into spoilers.  Though who cares?  You shouldn't waste your time reading this anyway.*He spends all his time talking about restoring his family and saving his wife and kid, but he starts by experimenting on his wife (hurting her in the process) and neglecting his kid.  Then, he leaves his kid and his wife.  Then, a long time passes where he does nothing to find them.  Then, they just fall in his lap again, and AGAIN he leaves his wife to die or worse.  His motivations never make any sense, and his actions never match his supposed motivations.And it isn't even entertaining.  Much of the book, he describes how he's trying to fix the problem, and it's an obvious waste of time.  Even the character acknowledges that it's a waste of time, and yet, we're treated to chapters of intricate descriptions of how the character is wasting his time.This book is a waste of time.

### ⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Very hard to get through
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 4, 2015*

This was a good idea that was terribly painful to get through. It was so bad that I almost preferred walking on the treadmill with nothing to read rather than keep reading this, but I forced my way through anyway, just to be done with it.The story takes place in the near future, at a time when the sound of children speaking has become toxic. Eventually, all language, even printed text, follows, and Sam and Claire find themselves with no alternative but to abandon their teenage daughter, Esther. Even though they have to leave her, Sam refuses to give up on somehow keeping their family together, even though Esther's vocal teenage rebellion is slowly killing her parents. The rest of the book meanders through Sam's fruitless struggle to find a cure and to continue practicing a form of Judaism where he goes to a solitary hut in the woods and uses an organic device called a Listener to hear sermons from an underground orange cable that apparently spans the entire world, even though earing the sermons is also killing him.There are a lot of problems with this book, but the basic ones are that there's never a reason why language became toxic, so the main plot is never resolved. Since it's not a plot driven novel, it then has to depend on the characters, but Sam is the only character given any kind of development, and he's just not that interesting. This book was a waste of my time.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Wonderful book that will leave you thinking for months to come.
  

*by K***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 14, 2013*

I purchased this book to read over winter break, and after reading mixed reviews I was hesitant that it would be a flop and hard to get through.  While the wording and flow of the book is a bit labored, I think that this adds to the concept of the story!  The whole point of the book is that speech is toxic, and understanding leads to decay.  Why should a gem like this book have the message so easily accessible?  This is a wonderful piece of literary fiction, not a quick read in which one can skim over pages.  This book is something to immerse yourself in, and almost become the character and feel how hard language has become to tolerate. A society where a child's speech is toxic is just an outstanding and original concept.  I highly appreciated the irony of reading this book while surrounded by screaming children on an airplane.  I could almost see the words spewing out of their mouths and felt as if every fiber in my body was being attacked by the children's words.Again, this is a wonderful book and while it is hard to read, it is worth it.  I would compare it to the likes of Margret Atwood's "The Handmaids Tale."

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