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Title	:	Lexicon
Author	:	Max Barry
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 390 pages
Published	:	June 18th 2013 by Penguin Press (first published January 1st 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. Fantasy. Mystery. Adult. Science Fiction Fantasy

Lexicon

Max Barry

Hardcover | Pages: 390 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 30144 Users | 4013 Reviews

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At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics--at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science. Students harness the hidden power of language to manipulate the mind and learn to break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. The very best will graduate as "poets", adept wielders of language who belong to a nameless organization that is as influential as it is secretive. Whip-smart orphan Emily Ruff is making a living running a three-card Monte game on the streets of San Francisco when she attracts the attention of the organization's recruiters. She is flown across the country for the school's strange and rigorous entrance exams, where, once admitted, she will be taught the fundamentals of persuasion by Bronte, Eliot, and Lowell--who have adopted the names of famous poets to conceal their true identities. For in the organization, nothing is more dangerous than revealing who you are: Poets must never expose their feelings lest they be manipulated. Emily becomes the school's most talented prodigy until she makes a catastrophic mistake: She falls in love. Meanwhile, a seemingly innocent man named Wil Jamieson is brutally ambushed by two strange men in an airport bathroom. Although he has no recollection of anything they claim he's done, it turns out Wil is the key to a secret war between rival factions of poets and is quickly caught in their increasingly deadly crossfire. Pursued relentlessly by people with powers he can barely comprehend and protected by the very man who first attacked him, Wil discovers that everything he thought he knew about his past was fiction. In order to survive, must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, to discover who he is and why an entire town was blown off the map. As the two narratives converge, the shocking work of the poets is fully revealed, the body count rises, and the world crashes toward a Tower of Babel event which would leave all language meaningless. A brilliant thriller that connects very modern questions of privacy, identity, and the rising obsession of data collection to centuries-old ideas about the power of language and coercion, Lexicon is Max Barry's most ambitious and spellbinding novel yet.

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Original Title:	Lexicon
ISBN:	1594205388 (ISBN13: 9781594205385)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee (2014), ALA Alex Award (2014), Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2013)

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Ratings: 3.9 From 30144 Users | 4013 Reviews

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💥 January 16, 2020: only $1.99 today! 💥P.S. I read this book three and a half years ago and still haven't written an actual review for it, so go me and stuff! But hey, I said I'd write it by 2068, which gives me 48 more years to think about it, so yay and stuff!YES YES YES YES YES.Simple as that.Max Barry. You either get him, or you don't. So to those poor souls who happen to think his books are total crap *waves enthusiastically at Dan*, I say: I am so sorry. Please try not to feel too bad

Out of contextSeveral years ago, I heard author Chuck Palahniuk read a story so disturbing that a woman in the audience fainted. She wasnt the first. Palahniuk summed it up thus: The power of words.I couldnt help but think of the above as I delved into Max Barrys fifth novel, Lexicon. Ive been a fan of his work since Syrup, so Im old school. I tend to think of Barry as a satirist first and foremost, so I was surprised when Lexicon opened very much like a thriller. Readers are thrown straight

Emily Ruff, a 16-year-old con artist, is happily working her card tricks on the streets of San Francisco when she meets 'T.S. Elliot.' The 'poet' soon carts her off to a special school in Virginia where she'll learn to use words to "persuade" (i.e. control) people. All graduates of the school take the names of well-known poets before they're let loose to fulfill the school's agenda - which seems to be to control the world.Unfortunately for Emily she breaks some rules before graduation and is

3 1/2 stars.Are you a cat or a dog person? In the world of Lexicon, your answer reveals everything they need to know about you. Who are "they"? They are the poets, people who are hardwired to resist persuasion and to use language as a weapon against the rest of us. Studying linguistics, personality and psychology, poets have the ability to subvert free will and compel us do as they wish. The most powerful poets are given pseudonyms that appropriately demonstrate their mastery over language and,

More like 1.5 stars?As a lover of language - how we use it to not only communicate but change the world around us - this book was immediately interesting to me. Words are important, a sentiment uttered more than once in this book and implied throughout. To put it bluntly, words mean things, and should be chosen with care and respect. I'm not even quite sure what I was expecting of this book anymore, but it does start out running - and you better be prepared to chase after to keep up. You're

So anyone whose mother ever taught them 'sticks and stones may break my bones..." knows that words DO hurt and they influence people and the pen is mightier than the sword and yadda yadda so Mr. Barry is not exactly breaking new ground here...we are READERS, Mr. Barry, who are reading this book, so, you know, give us some credit. Words be some pow'ful shit. Anyway, the premise of the book is interesting - persuasive young people are taught mysterious words to use on a variety of personality

I think a lot about language because, in my view of the world, almost everything is a language. I use phrases like the language of dance and think of wine as communicating its flavor to our senses. I refer to math & science as the language of the universe and consider, for example, a photons interaction with an electron to be a form of communication. Honestly, when I think of an electron emitting a photon because it was excited, I really do visualize this little spark singing and dancing, Im