I loved this, Alex Garland has this amazing rare talent at mixing the absolutely horrific, violent, disturbing and sinister with the absolutely beautiful, moving, poetic and powerful. I say this off 2 books, definitely reading more.

Interesting concept, 3 separate stories which interact and then combine into a dramatic final scene. Writing rather cryptic and above me, someone of a science background, but persevered and pleasd I did to experience a new writing style.

OK thriller set in Manilla. It is about the intersection of three groups of peoples lives' culminating in a bloody coming together for the one and only time at the end. Spoiler - not everyone walks away

I enjoyed the idea of a tesseract and the collision of each of the characters in the story. A tesseract with its understandable geometry or at least an ordered way of looking at a shape (I suppose the 'easiest' way for us to compute 4d....) puts forward the idea life should have obvious cause and effect: a plan. To then bring in Alfredo's interest in dreams, the metaphysical and space really see-sawed the emotion of nitty gritty real life and the relative pointlessness of our little lives!

Broke my kindle on the second day travelling so I’ve been scrounging paper back off whoever and where ever I can. I was dissapointed with this one though. It started off well but the style of changing viewpoints and stories throughout the book just didn’t really hit with me. Rushed to finish it cuz I was bored. 2 and a half stars.

The awkward follow up to the Beach but this time set in the Philippines.

Depressing and cynical, written in a choppy Pulp Fiction style that tries to be edgy but came across as trying too hard.

This story does not have a happy ending and the only things that happen to any of the characters are always depressing. Maybe the author could have plagiarised another book (like he did with The Beach) he would have been able to write a satisfying ending? Good luck to the guy I doubt this book would have been published if the author had not written the Beach.

Не могу сказать, что все совсем уж плохо в этой книге. Косичка событий довольна интересная, но беда в том, что она ни к чему не ведет и некоторые герои совсем непонятно зачем появляются.

А так, пришлось побегать с главными героями, пострелять, поуворачиваться, где-то влюбиться и понять, что матери - это зло, а любовь бывает так жестока, что мстит тебе через детей, что черная собака, которую ты так боялась, прибежит к тебе, но накажет совсем другого человека. Что во снах ты можешь быть героем и вспоминать там свою жизнь или не свою.. или не реальность. Что удивительно, когда не хотят слушать сны про спасение девушек, может у доктора самого что-то не так?

Все это интересно и будь про все это отдельные цельные рассказы, это был бы удивительный сборник ра��сказов о жизни, страхе, страсти, смерти! А так получилось бойко, но без смысла, катарсиса. Без желания вмешаться, понять, осознать. Это мог бы быть боевичок, но автор решил туда приплести драму, это могла быть драма, но слишком киношно смотрелась стрельба. Все как-то "не до" и от этого книга пролетает как нечто ненужное, а очень жаль, ведь было столько всего чтобы эта книга засверкала.

Not sure if this is beautifully tragic or tragically beautiful, but there is some real poetry in here

I do not remember when I read "The Tesseract" by Alex Garland. The only note I made about the novel: A tesseract is a 3-dimensional object, also 4-dimensional, a hyper-cube unraveled.

I assume the explanation came from the novel. I think I enjoyed reading it, but too much time has passed for me to be sure.

I really enjoyed this book I think the form is fantastic. Of course there are a lot of questions and details left unanswered (and some pretentious writing haha) but I think that’s just part of why the book is named the way it is.

More mature than The Beach with a more intricate structure that evokes works like Rashomon and Short Cuts - events viewed from multiple perspectives, each forming a greater whole that the characters can’t see but we can. Manilla is almost a character in its own right and no mere backdrop this time around.

One caveat: the Penguin paperback uses outsized type to inflate the page count. Bad move.

I enjoyed Garland's sci-fi movies "Devs" and "Ex Machina". His fiction was a disappointment. The book tells the story of Rosa, a Filipino mother, and a few gangsters chasing another gangster through part of Manila. I have yet to find gun play convincing in fiction. Too many tedious details.

The novel is supposed to be an unfolding of tesseract, a depiction of a projection of a three dimensional object into a fourth dimension.