Resist The Silo Archipelago Series Book 2 eBook Michael Bunker
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Leah, a recycling worker from the mids, is ushered into Samizdat - an underground league of thinkers, writers, and artists who publish and distribute illegal books throughout the silo. She's been arrested and released, and now she's headed to the down-deep to meet up with her mysterious father, and to face what is really going on in the silo.
Resist The Silo Archipelago Series Book 2 eBook Michael Bunker
Where do I begin? I've been staring at my reflection in the blank screen of my computer for close to half an hour, and still nothing. Because there is nothing to say on Michael Bunker's "Resist"? Quite the opposite. Because there's so much and I don't know where to start. You know what I like about reading on a Kindle app? The way you can highlight the passages you like? You can even choose the colour. Well, there are very few pages I left white on this one.And yet I'm at a loss for words. When words are the central element of the Archipelago Series, its main focus. Michael Bunker brilliantly entered the silo world and created an essay on literature, disguised as science-fiction. Consider that for a second: he's an independent writer, an "underground writer", so to speak, following in the footsteps of another "underground writer" (Hugh Howey), writing about writers in an underground world. It's enough to make you dizzy, just like Leah at some point in the story:
"The mind reels when it discovers that there are other minds and other lives out there"
Read Refuse and Resist and remember, reader, that the writer's real meaning remains to be reached by reading between the lines. Wool fanfiction works this way, and its authors, Bunker included, aren't just spinning a yarn to pass the time. They're like a brotherhood now, "united in a love for literature, and a love for the truth", like the members of Samizdat.
The game of mirrors and echoes is constant throughout Resist: the narrative echoes books and authors and either quotes or mentions them (Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd, Solzhenitsyn, Descartes, Thoreau...). Onomastics plays a role as well, when some characters' names ring a bell (Mann...). The short story's whole structure is an echo in itself, a mise en abyme featuring book extracts, letters, stories within stories that characters tell one another or read to one another...
On a deeper level, the whole atmosphere is reminiscent of the darkest hours of our History, and all the episodes during which the downtrodden had to "resist" violence from the power in place. It can call to mind, but not only, the second world war and the Resistance in France during the Occupation, when propaganda and constant control of every freedom ruled the masses.
Even action scenes mirror the characters' inner turmoil. When Leah is hanging down a rope, risking her life, she is symbolically confronted to gravity, and the need every human has to "resist" it every second of their lives. Avoiding a fall - sometimes resisting the appeal of it - becomes a meaningful parallel. The thought is repeated - echoed - later on when she goes down the stairs, a movement giving her "a philosophical grasp on gravity".
Even characters are echoes. Isn't Tink the author himself? "A burly man, not tall, but fully twice the size - in almost every other respect - than a normal man. His head was huge, like a museum piece, and his full, gray-mottled beard made him look as if he was a hundred years old. Only his youthful voice, and his granite strength, made Leah think that he was only in his mid-thirties..."
Whether Tink is a mirror of Bunker or not, his doppelganger (I can't risk spoiling it too much here, but there are two "doubles" in the story, two mirrors of other characters), Resist is a piece of work that will make you reflect. As George Bernard Shaw phrased it:
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul”
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Resist The Silo Archipelago Series Book 2 eBook Michael Bunker Reviews
The story itself is great, however the installments are so short that I feel that a single full length novel would have worked better. Refuse and Resist are more like chapter ends that feel more like "That's it?" than "I can't wait for the next episode!"
I am quickly becoming a big fan of Michael Bunker's writing. This second book of the archipelago series ended like the first one, abruptly. I was so engrossed in it I lost track of when I was. I can't wait for the next one.
If you read the first book, Refuse, you certainly will want to continue the story to find out what happens, and Resist won't disappoint. But be forewarned - you won't be able to leave off with this, the middle book in a series of three. The story had me engaged and drawn in, and the completely caught me off guard with its stunning ending.
It's always interesting to learn something about history as you're reading fiction, even more so with science fiction. In keeping with the Silo series, Michael Bunker makes you believe the world as he builds the suspense. Can't wait for part three.
This is the best writing by Michael Buncker yet. He has perfected his style of prose and reflection. As a reader, you sometimes just want the author to "get on with the story" but I found myself happy to go along for the ride. It is the story within the story, the different levels that Michael explores that keep you turning the page. Can't wait for the conclusion. P. Hereld
This second part of the Silo Archipelago series contains more twist and turns than most full length novels I read. I can suggest this writer to everyone, he really has a gift to tell stories. Luckily I still have the third part to read, so, now if you pardon me...
This review is going to be short and VERY sweet so I can get to reading Volume 3! I can't believe what just happened to the heroine but it had better turn out well for her!!! Michael, you are sooooo lucky that I own Volume 3 already! I'd be having a Royal Hissy-fit at you right now if I had to wait to find out what happens! Enough reviewing! I must READ!!!
Where do I begin? I've been staring at my reflection in the blank screen of my computer for close to half an hour, and still nothing. Because there is nothing to say on Michael Bunker's "Resist"? Quite the opposite. Because there's so much and I don't know where to start. You know what I like about reading on a app? The way you can highlight the passages you like? You can even choose the colour. Well, there are very few pages I left white on this one.
And yet I'm at a loss for words. When words are the central element of the Archipelago Series, its main focus. Michael Bunker brilliantly entered the silo world and created an essay on literature, disguised as science-fiction. Consider that for a second he's an independent writer, an "underground writer", so to speak, following in the footsteps of another "underground writer" (Hugh Howey), writing about writers in an underground world. It's enough to make you dizzy, just like Leah at some point in the story
"The mind reels when it discovers that there are other minds and other lives out there"
Read Refuse and Resist and remember, reader, that the writer's real meaning remains to be reached by reading between the lines. Wool fanfiction works this way, and its authors, Bunker included, aren't just spinning a yarn to pass the time. They're like a brotherhood now, "united in a love for literature, and a love for the truth", like the members of Samizdat.
The game of mirrors and echoes is constant throughout Resist the narrative echoes books and authors and either quotes or mentions them (Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd, Solzhenitsyn, Descartes, Thoreau...). Onomastics plays a role as well, when some characters' names ring a bell (Mann...). The short story's whole structure is an echo in itself, a mise en abyme featuring book extracts, letters, stories within stories that characters tell one another or read to one another...
On a deeper level, the whole atmosphere is reminiscent of the darkest hours of our History, and all the episodes during which the downtrodden had to "resist" violence from the power in place. It can call to mind, but not only, the second world war and the Resistance in France during the Occupation, when propaganda and constant control of every freedom ruled the masses.
Even action scenes mirror the characters' inner turmoil. When Leah is hanging down a rope, risking her life, she is symbolically confronted to gravity, and the need every human has to "resist" it every second of their lives. Avoiding a fall - sometimes resisting the appeal of it - becomes a meaningful parallel. The thought is repeated - echoed - later on when she goes down the stairs, a movement giving her "a philosophical grasp on gravity".
Even characters are echoes. Isn't Tink the author himself? "A burly man, not tall, but fully twice the size - in almost every other respect - than a normal man. His head was huge, like a museum piece, and his full, gray-mottled beard made him look as if he was a hundred years old. Only his youthful voice, and his granite strength, made Leah think that he was only in his mid-thirties..."
Whether Tink is a mirror of Bunker or not, his doppelganger (I can't risk spoiling it too much here, but there are two "doubles" in the story, two mirrors of other characters), Resist is a piece of work that will make you reflect. As George Bernard Shaw phrased it
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul”
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