The Passengers is a fun read for group reads and it made for an entertaining, exciting discussion for The Traveling Sisters.

The Passenger: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller: Ulrich The Passenger: The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller: Ulrich

It really made me reflect on the role technology plays in my life and how much control I would be truly willing to give up.The commentary on our future with tech, the ethical issues our dependence upon such technologies will bring about, as well as the potentially harmful nature of social media, were all spectacularly done. The spread of social media features prominently, with mob and mass mentality, lack of personal responsibility and accountability, and vigilantism rearing its ugly head in judgemental and hateful ways.

The Passenger: Lost German novel makes UK bestseller list 83 The Passenger: Lost German novel makes UK bestseller list 83

On the contrary, The Passenger is a sobering and sometimes harrowing read, with a particularly devastating ending. He flicks at a steady stream of believable details (even if such a total switchover is more like 50 years away than 10). Silbermann provided the start-up capital and built the company from the ground up through diligent work. Crescendo, diminuendo: the book’s earliest and final sections are short, sometimes they’re just a sentence or paragraph long. In comparison, consider Marrs' other book The One (which I loved) wherein the motivation and justification for Matthew's revenge was without question.It follows the stories of five of those passengers (the other three are soon blown up) as well as that of Libby Dixon, a young everywoman who is serving her week on the ultra-secretive Vehicle Inquest Jury. As stormtroopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman who fought for Germany in the Great War, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home as a result of the November pogroms. The hacker’s plan and the climactic moments leading up to the time of supposed impact were the highlights of a very fast paced book. I had high hopes for a five star read but had to dock it one star for the ending, which left a little to be desired.

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It all builds to the largest reveal of all, that the way the cars handle the ethical “trolley problem” of whom to kill when a crash is inevitable doesn’t quite match what the government has told its people. This was followed by stays in Norway, Luxembourg (where he was expelled by the police), and Belgium, before the family settled in England in 1939. At times the novel becomes slightly repetitive due to the amount Silbermann ends up running in circles around Germany, literally hopping from one train to the next, but it never gets dull. Felkeltik benne a menekülés ösztönét, arra késztetik, hogy maradék vagyonával (egy aktatáskányi márkával) elkezdjen keresztül-kasul vonatozni Germánián, Berlinből Hamburgba, Hamburgból Aachenbe, Aachenből Drezdába megy, de sehol sincs számára nyugalom. We meet him when his German business partner is headed off for a meeting and he is talking of selling his apartment to another ‘friend.The pacing is quick and there is a growing sense of dread as the book progresses that gave me a difficult time putting the book down to do things like eating, sleeping, and just general adulting. My gut ached when Otto was trying to stay AHEAD of the Nazis jumping on and off those trains — just trying to survive. The sheer amount of our lives available to data mine and the world being run by artificial intelligence! He himself tries to remain invisible, takes train by train, aimlessly travels across the country wi

The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz | Goodreads The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz | Goodreads

Despite technology playing a crucial part, the different characters are what really make the story really interesting.Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz was on a troopship heading for England in 1942 when it was torpedoed by a German submarine. Oh, and by the way, EVERYTHING from what is going on inside the cars, to what is going on inside the deliberation room, is being broadcast LIVE. It has a very unique premise and an action-packed story that will keep you entertained right till the end. All of this, of course, unfolds over social media, and the world finds itself captivated—particularly when the Hacker begins asking the audience, to vote on who lives and who dies. Dabei beschränkt sich Boschwitz auf die letzte Phase einer langen Reihe von Einschränkungen, Kränkungen und Benachteiligungen, die letztendlich zum Verlust der Lebensgrundlage, des Lebenswillens und der Freiheit führt.