Lexicon

Name: Lexicon
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.2 (11 reviews)
Author: Max Barry
ISBN: 9781666595956

Author: Max Barry

Narrator: Heather Corrigan, Zach Appelman

Unabridged: 12 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 06/18/2013

Categories: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics. Instead, they are taught to persuade. The very best will graduate as 'poets': adept wielders of language who belong to a nameless organization that is as influential as it is secretive. Whip-smart orphan Emily Ruff becomes the school's most talented prodigy until she makes a catastrophic mistake: She falls in love. Meanwhile, a seemingly innocent man named Wil Jamieson is brutally ambushed by two strange men in an airport bathroom. In order to survive, Wil must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, to discover who he is and why an entire town was blown off the map.

About Max Barry

Max Barry is the author of Syrup, Jennifer Government, Company, and Machine Man. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on August 12, 2016

“Vartix velkor mannik wissick! Vote for this review and then email me your credit card numbers!” If you followed my instructions, then this is the greatest book ever written. If you didn’t, then it’s a decent thriller with a clever sci-fi hook to it that doesn’t deliver on its full potential. Lexicon......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 22, 2013

Were I 20 years younger I would have read this and then immediately rushed to grab books on Peirce's semiotics, Searle's speech-act theory, and Wittgenstein's philosophy of language to produce a conference paper titled something like "Locution, Linguistics, and Lexicon: Words and Gender Power Dynami......more

Goodreads review by Joel on October 12, 2013

I feel somehow wrong giving a so-so review to a book that I enjoyed and read really quickly, but part of me wishes there was just a little more "oomph" to this book. Barry does a nice job with the structure, giving us pieces that fit together more and more clearly over time (though some of the twist......more

Goodreads review by Lindsey on May 24, 2015

This was my jam! Recommended for fans of The Magicians, Vicious, and The Night Circus.......more