6/18/2023 0 Comments Parasite eveYou will surprise even yourself with how adeptly you perform unexpected kidney transplants. Whether you like it or not, by the time you are finished reading Parasite Eve you are legally a practicing physician. But that's far more exciting than the aforementioned medical terminology being vomited out for pages on end. Not unlike the white wall.Īnd it just goes on like that. He imagined a white ball of healing light. Suddenly a pain struck Yoshimitsu in his abdomen. Its whiteness evoked a sense of emptiness. It reminded him of white things he had seen before. Not quite Ivory, but closer to it than it was to Eggshell. It was not white exactly, but it was a kind of white. He stared at the white wall absentmindedly. An excerpt, from the pages of Parasite Eve: The remainder of the book is an eclectic mix of lectures on the history of mitochondrial evolution, and exhaustive commentaries on the colours of various things. Literally 319½ pages of its 320 page runtime are dedicated entirely to describing, in excruciating detail, the intricacies of advanced medical procedures. In fact, having someone you love read it to you with a cute Aussie accent is its one saving grace, and I can't imagine that's what Hideaki Sena had in mind so I refuse to give him credit for that. This book put me to sleep at least three times, though I had hoped my Australian girlfriend didn't notice. Worse than Caliban Cove, which has now retroactively become a two star book. Let's start at the top with this: This book is the WORST. My god, where do I even begin with this book. When these cells start mutating rapidly, a consciousness bent on determining its own fate awakens from an eonic sleep. Her donated kidney is transplanted into a young girl with a debilitating disorder, but the doctor also feels compelled to keep a small sample of her liver in his laboratory. Nagashima loses his wife in a mysterious car crash, he is overwhelmed with grief but also an eerie sense of purpose he becomes obsessed with the idea that he must reincarnate his dead wife. Parasite Eve was the basis of the hugely popular video game of the same name and has been cinematized in Japan, where the novel’s smashing success helped set off a horror boom that has only been intensifying ever since. New life begins at the cellular level, but when that cell contains restless mitochondria, it will aspire to be much more than just a speck in a petri dish. Filled with scientific acuity and existential challenges in the tradition of Ghost in the Shell and Frankenstein, this medical fantasmagoria is a disorienting look into the consciousness and will have you questioning the future of human evolution.
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