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Description: ISBN 0747525471 / Author: Gene Brewer / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the ... more
K-Pax - Gene Brewer ... Manhattan Psychiatric Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place form him. However this patient is unlike anyone Dr Gene Brewer has had to interview before. Calling himselft 'prot' (to rhyme with goat), he has no traceable background but says he is an inhabitant of the planet K-PAX, an idyllic world where there is no war or famine, and where every being coexists in harmoney. Setting a departure date - August 17th at 3:31 am - on which he plans to return home on a beam of light, 'prot' keeps us guessing right up ot the last minute.

Newest Review: ... detail about this planet K-PAX that rings true, with an astronomer contact of Dr. Brewer's, knowledge and this knowledge ... more

 ... is not available beyond a select group of astronomers. Is prot an Alien? Is prot a savant in the midst of a delusional fantasy? Is prot simply a different personality of the real man, the real man who is not an alien and is an ordinary American with severe mental problems? K-PAX is m ore than just a journey of is prot an alien or not - in describing life on K-PAX to Dr. Brewer, prot seems to shine some light on the problems of our own ...more

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Crowned Review K-Pax - Gene Brewer: Thinking Man's Sci-Fi (760 words)
by cmh4135 - written on 10.04.02 (Very useful, 684 readings)
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Book reviews are kind of like film reviews – hard to write. This review is possibly going to be even harder. I do not want to give away too much. I do not want to over analyse (you will soon see why) and, to make matters worse, it has been made into a film which comes to cinemas on 12 April! K-PAX is humorous sci-fi. Not really my cup of tea at all – usually. I was sent the book free as part of a promotion and in keeping with my reputation as a wordy I had to read it. I never let a book beat me and this was going to be no exception. Why did I worry? This is possibly one of the most compelling books I have read. It is almost ...

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Premium Review Damn you all, I am from Tipazoo! (1154 words)
by KingHerrod - written on 17.07.02 (Very useful, 658 readings)
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Do you know who you are? How do you know that your persona is actually you? How do you know that this really is Earth that we are living on? The most probable answer is that none of us can be entirely sure - of course we are all told that this is Earth and we are informed what is sane and insane, but who is really to judge what is sane and what is insane? Who are we to tell certain harmless people that they are mad and we are sane? Well of course society is the judge of that, just as society says that you are strange if you do not conform in your dress sense or way of expression - the sanity stage is just a more extreme version of a group of people's idea of ...

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Premium Review K-Pax - Gene Brewer: On A Beam Of Light (659 words)
by zoe_page_1 - written on 20.03.02 (Very useful, 188 readings)
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Because as we will all soon learn, that’s the *only* way to travel intergallactically…. Meet prot. Nope that’s not a typo, that’s just how he spells it. Recently admitted to the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute, prot (rhymes with tote) isn’t that different from a lot of Dr Brewer’s other patients. Like many of them, he has dillusions, but rather unusually, these beliefs are shown by hypnosis be incredibly deep-seated, stretching as far back as his early childhood. In his mind, at least, prot does not come from EARTH but from a rather different planet called several light years away. K-PAX, as it’s called, seems to be the ...

 

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