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Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)

Paolo Bacigalupi

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Jul 20, 2010 Stephanie rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, dystopian-post-apocalyptic, nook-book, read-in-2011

Please tell me this is the first in a series! I really liked this and I hope to read more about Nailer, Pima and Nita and the world they live in.

I live along the Gulf Coast and this world captured my imagination. The story is set on the oil slicked Gulf Coast in a world where everything has fallen apart and the cities of today are now under water. Nailer and Pima work the "light crew", stripping valuable copper and aluminum from the hulking wrecks of old freighters and oil tankers. The crews tha ...more

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Jun 23, 2012 Tanya Patrice rated it really liked it

I read a review that says this book has a "middle-grade" feel to it, and I totally agree. But that doesn't mean it wasn't a fantastic book - it was - and one I enjoyed immensely. Nailer is a likable main character, with just the right amount of youth hardened with his tough circumstances of living in a World where he has to scavenge for scrap metal. And let's talk about the World in this book for a minute - wow - totally plausible and believable. I think it was the strongest point of the book, b ...more

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Jul 26, 2019 Rhonda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: form-audio, age-ya, dystopian, rmodb, zz-2019, series-all-pub, zz-mount-tbr, science-fiction

Very good! I've had this on my shelf for a long time and am so glad I finally picked it up.

As someone who lives on the Gulf Coast, I found the depiction of the future effects of climate change sobering and pretty scary. It made for a great story and was held up by the characters and the action sequences.

I listened to the audiobook, which was excellent. ...more

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