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The Extremes Free FREE THE EXTREMES PDF Christopher Priest | 320 pages | 08 Sep 2005 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780575075788 | English | London, United Kingdom EXTREME | The Official Website Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — The Extremes by Christopher The Extremes. The Extremes The Extremes Christopher Priest. British-born Teresa Simons returns to England after the death of her husband, an FBI agent, who was killed by an out-of-control gunman while on assignment in Texas. A shocking coincidence has drawn her to the run-down south coast town of Bulverton, where a gunman's massacre has haunting similarities to the murders in Texas. Desperate to unravel the mystery, Teresa turns to British-born Teresa Simons returns to England after the death of her The Extremes, an FBI agent, who was killed by an out-of-control gunman while on assignment in Texas. Desperate to unravel the mystery, Teresa turns The Extremes the virtual reality world of Extreme Experience, ExEx, now commercially available since she trained on it in the US. The The Extremes and worst of human experience can be found in ExEx, and in the extremes of violence Teresa finds that past and present combine. The Extremes A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Arthur C. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends The Extremes of this book, please sign The Extremes. To ask other readers questions about The Extremes The Extremes, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Extremes. Her accuracy with a weapon thrilled her. She recognized as natural the weight of the weapon in her hand, the way it balanced there, the jolt of adrenaline that flowed when the recoil kicked at her arm and shoulder, The Extremes because these were exciting to her, the condition of gun ownership and use was integral to her personality and identity. The Extremes had her own good reasons for making the trip - her beloved husband Andy, acting in The Extremes line of duty as FBI agent, was shot dead by a gunman's bullet during a The Extremes shooting spree on the exact same summer day in a small town in Texas. Added to this, Teresa was herself raised in England The Extremes a little girl before her parents moved to the US, thus she feels a deep kinship with the country and culture of England. There are no children as she and Andy decided to devote themselves to their respective careers as FBI agents. After more than ten years of marriage, Teresa is now a heartsick widow in her early 40s and takes the bureau up on their offer of leave of absence to better come to terms with her grief. She senses vaguely that speaking to the survivors in Bulverton will give her the The Extremes support she so desperately craves. Her father was so proud when Teresa became quite expert in firing guns herself, winning many national shooting competitions. Yet there was something unsettling about this macho gun culture. His voice was louder, he moved with more energy. Once in Bulverton, Teresa decides to conduct her own investigation of gunman Gerry Grove's killing spree. However, the more Teresa attempts to talk to townspeople, including Nick and Amy who run the hotel where she's staying, the more she unearths the timetable and other details of events via police reports, accounts of eye witnesses, newspaper articles, The Extremes more she senses things simply don't add up - preeminently, an unaccounted for two hour gap between Grove leaving the local building dedicated to virtual reality technology and The Extremes to town with his guns to commit mass murder. Thus, there's drama aplenty in Bulverton but the real intensity for Teresa takes place in the worlds of the aforementioned virtual reality technology known The Extremes ExEx, short The Extremes Extreme Experience. And let me tell ya folks, it ain't called Extreme for nothing. Teresa has had previous encounters with The Extremes programs, which are, incidentally, infinitely more advanced then anything available today please keep in mind this The Extremes Christopher Priest science fiction. Back in her years training with the FBI, as a way to better understand and deal with mass murders, using ExEx, Teresa entered simulations of the actual past, such as the University of The Extremes tower shootings where Charles Whitman, a former Marine, went on the attack. Like other bureau trainees, Teresa will enter multiple times, taking on the role, in turn, of bystander, victim, law enforcement officer and even the gunman himself. Frequently, the simulation will end when the trainee is shot dead. The Extremes traumatic experience to be sure, but through such training, the young FBI agents learn fast. Or so the theory goes. Teresa can hardly believe it - the ExEx programs in Bulverton are even more sophisticated. With all the new genius software programmers around the globe, upon receiving her injection of neurochips again, this is science fiction and entering a scenario, she enters an entire world. And it's all so real. Teresa asks: how do they do that? The articulate gal at the ExEx facility tells her about new developments with The Extremes and contiguity. Teresa's skills as a sharpshooter The Extremes off- she kills more times than she is killed. As readers, we The Extremes her every step, every shot and every bloody death - an extreme reading experience. Make that extreme extreme. In one ExEx scenario Teresa assumes the identity of a hard-core porn movie star - one of the major attraction for ExEx enthusiasts since there's such a close connection between sexuality and aggression, sexuality and violence, sexuality and death. Teresa takes ExEx to even more extremes - she enters the world The Extremes Bulverton as Gerry Grove on the day of the killings - her mind and his The Extremes interact, at various point even merge. She can't take the craziness and extracts herself from the program. Then, after scanning the computer menu for other scenarios, she chooses Kingwood City, Texas on that very same fateful day in June when her dear husband Andy was killed by a gunman on a spree. What follows will be familiar to Christopher Priest fans as the jolt of the weird. Time and space turn, bend and curve beyond the conventional three dimensions. What is the real world, so called, and what is virtual Extreme Experience? What are the boundaries and what happens when each one blends into the other? In this way, in addition to violence, I judge The Extremes as a highly philosophical novel about the very nature and expansion of our perceptions. Ready for such extremes? If so, this ingenious Christopher Priest is a must read. British author Christopher Priest, born View all 15 comments. The Extremes is like certain The Extremes of food: it seems nourishing at first but soon betrays itself as empty calories. Much of the book is concerned with the everyday lives of a couple of people affected by the events that are central to the story. But these characters actually have nothing to say. We learn nothing from them and then, in the final third of the book, they simply vanish, leaving the reader wondering why we met them at all. The same applies to a group of The Extremes employees from a The Extremes manufacturer. As for the virtual reality aspect, which is, after all, the fulcrum of the story, Priest seems ill-at-ease with this technology. He fails to understand the concept or its potential, and uses it without The Extremes. This book is also poorly written. Priest deals with complex themes in very straightforward, accessible prose and The Extremes is no exception. I dislike giving plot The Extremes where the unfolding of the plot is integral to enjoying the novel, so suffice to say the The Extremes of the book are concerned with virtual reality, consensual reality, coming to terms with loss, mass-murder violence, and shifting timelines. In some respects the novel is sprawli Every time I read a Christopher Priest book I realise I should read more of his work. In some respects the novel is sprawling: characters weave in and out, some storylines aren't resolved, the POV gradually shifts between a few characters and becomes focussed on one, and I can imagine for some readers this might be frustrating. Certainly the 'science' underpinning The Extremes novel seems to be more theoretical than actual, but this is the kind of book I prefer. Priest takes 'what if' and extrapolates it to the extremes, yet manages to keep a human The Extremes that ensures his characters and their hopes are firmly identifiable. I can't say I was satisfied with the ending, but I was happy The Extremes it. Now to seek out more of his work. View 1 comment. Jul 07, Nicholas Whyte rated it really liked it. The Extremes anything I felt The Extremes was a bit too straightforward compared to some of Priest's other work, but it was still highly satisfactory, with The Extremes beginning, a middle and an end which all cohered from the two main characters' viewpoints. I like Priest's writing. This novel is a great example how style alone can be sufficient to propel the reader to the end.
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