K-Pax - Gene Brewer Reviews

(Some cut and paste from my film review on account of laziness) The premise of this book is simple enough. Prot is picked up by the police at Grand Central Station after an old woman is robbed and based on his reactions taken to the Manhattan Psychiatric Centre. He states that he is from another planet - specifically the planet ...  Read the complete review

K-PAX is a book that defies prediction while tempting it on every page. I think that is why the book is so impossible to put down and ultimately so satisfying to finish. When I first read K-PAX it had already been given two follow ups, I see that Gene Brewer has written a fourth though the first was always the best so I don't expect much fanfare ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

K-Pax is, in all honesty, one of the worst books I have read. I don't just mean worst in terms of pulp-fiction, in this case it is simply the Gene Brewer's inability to write in a style that will engage with his audience. Sadly he has chosen to write a sequel to it which probably means another printer somewhere has to waste their precious ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review