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Alfred Bester - The Stars My DestinationGully Foyle has survived for 170 days in the airless purgatory of deep space. He escapes to Terra with a murderous grudge against the people who abandoned him and a secret that makes him the most valuable--and dangerous--man on Earth.
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Tiger, Tiger
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Pros: very good book
Cons: the title
This is the story of a tiger on the hunt, and of an animal who becomes a man. While reading this book, you are immediately fascinated by the baseness and the single-mindedness of Gully Foyle. He is a man who thinks of nothing but revenge, and is willing to kill, steal, rape, or betray friends while he seeks that revenge. He isn't evil, he just doesn't recognize the existence of anything but himself and his goal. Then you watch him gradually change, educating himself to further his goals and gaining a conscience in the process. At the end, during the firy climax, you get to see how much of a man Gully Foyle becomes.
This was really a great book. The biggest problem I had with it was the change from the original name, "Tiger, Tiger" to "The Stars My Destination." It wasn't about a man who went to the stars, but about a man who is the embodiment of Blake's poem, "The Tiger", part of which is reprinted at the beginning of the book.
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