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    The Visitor

    By Sheri S. Tepper

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    The "magic" that once was America died horribly along with most of the Earth's inhabitants when an asteroid crashed into the planet sometime during the twenty-first century. Hundreds of years have passed, and all that remains of the time before are fragmented memories distorted by superstition -- as a tragically reduced populace suffers greatly under the tyranny of a repressive ruling order. But destiny has chosen Dismé Latimer to lead a wasted world out of the darkness ... with a book. Written by a courageous scientist ancestor, it is a sacred, unsettling tome rife with disturbing ideas and revelations ... and an impossible hope that compels a gentle, troubled young woman to abandon her abusive home in search of truth and her true self. But common "wisdom" and lore warn of grave dangers out in the world. Evil is there, a malevolence beyond imagining. And in the depths of the Earth, a gargantuan beast asleep for centuries has begun to stir ...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061976391
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    The Visitor
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    Sheri S. Tepper

    Sheri S. Tepper is the author of more than thirty resoundingly acclaimed novels, including The Waters Rising, The Margarets, The Companions, The Visitor, The Fresco, Singer from the Sea, Six Moon Dance, The Family Tree, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Shadow's End, A Plague of Angels, Sideshow, and Beauty; numerous novellas; stories; poems; and essays. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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    • 1/5
      In general, I love Sheri S. Tepper's work. Her voice speaks right to me, and the settings and characters she writes of always inspire me.

      Visitor started out with the promise of another Tepper book I'd like. And it held that promise up until the very end, where it puttered out with one of the lamest endings I've ever read - very close to a 'Deus ex Machina' type cop-out.

      I highly recommend Ms. Tepper. Just not this one.
    • 4/5
      Throughout most of this book, I thought it was great.
      The milieu is an innovative and effective blend of post-apocalypse, straight-out horror, and science fiction. It's a complicated world, and Tepper does an amazing job of showing-not-telling, revealing elements of the situation she's created gradually...
      The protagonist, Disme, is shown to progress from her repressed situation where she is terrorized by her stepmother and her even-worse stepsister, gradually finding the ability to express her identity and to seek out the truth about her society...
      And her current society (strongly influenced by religious fanatics after a disastrous asteroid collision with Earth) is very effectively realized, in a way that reflects upon our world today...
      However, as the book progresses, the supernatural elements become more pronounced, in a way that, for me, compromised the internal believability of the story...
      And then, at the very end, AAGH! What happened? It was like Tepper suddenly doubted herself, and said, "Wait! I bet my readers won't GET what I've been writing about for the last 400 pages! I'd better spell it all out!" And suddenly we get a long, boring dialogue with god. Yikes. It's an ending that's both pedantic and absurd. Very disappointing - because the first part of the book really is excellent (and disturbing!).
    • 2/5
      I have tried twice and I just don't care for this book.
    • 4/5
      I did like this book. I found myself reading it while stirring a pot on the stove, and "rescheduling" a trip to town so that I could stay at home with the book.

      The "bad guys" were really icky. The author was a little preachy toward the end (though I've read other reviews that indicate this is normal for her).

      There was a lot of build up, the book was engrossing, but it seemed like the good vs. evil battle was tied up a little too easily and neatly; the bad guys, for all their horrific actions throughout the book, seemed to go down fairly easily when the good guys rode into town. The whole denouement didn't take nearly as many pages as I would have expected (refer back to part about the bad guys being vanquished fairly easily).
    • 3/5
      A friend was nice enough to send a copy of Sheri S. Tepper's The Visitor my way recently. I finished it on the train this weekend. It smacks of Deus Ex Machina, quite literally (get it? heh...), which usually is quite a turn-off for me. However, The Visitor built up to it. I was expecting the hands of deities by the time they arrived in the story. The plot was quite twisted in very concise ways, which I liked.An author's style is what usually grabs me, though, and Ms. Tepper has it to spare. I adore how writers such as Amy Bloom, Pat Califia, Sarah Waters, and especially Margaret Atwood break up bits and pieces of different stories by placing them between each other. Doing that is difficult while holding the reader's attention. Some authors manage rougher transitions than others. Ms. Teppers are about middle of the line insofar as that is concerned. She's not so smooth as Margaret Atwood but nowhere near as rough as David Brin's. So I dug that.The really great bits of Visitor have little to do with transition, though. Ms. Tepper uses more of the five senses other than sight to describe things in the first chapter than most authors use in an entire novel.
    • 1/5
      I really didn't think much of this. Tepper does a literal deus ex machina at the end, which seems to me to be such a lazy cop-out. But then, I have no time for gods or religion... I've enjoyed other books by her so much more than this one.
    • 3/5
      The ending was weak - otherwise I would have given it 4 stars.
    • 3/5
      This was good, but there was an awful lot of explanation at the end, especially about how to interpret what happened. It was a fascinating story, but I think you should be able to convey what happened in a book without explaining every little thing to people explicitly. Still, I loved the book, but then, I agree with Tepper's world view.