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12 Monkeys
12 Monkeys
Author: Elizabeth Hand
The time: 2035 A.D. The place: post-apocalyptic Philadelphia. The hero: a desperate convict from a subterranean high-security prison. The mission: travel back to the past to discover what killed the world. — James Cole is doing twenty-five-to-life in an underground prison when he is offered a mission that could wipe out his sentence. A group of g...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780061056581
ISBN-10: 0061056588
Publication Date: 12/1995
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3.4 stars, based on 14 ratings
Publisher: Harpercollins (Mm)
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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The based-on-the-movie book. If you liked the movie, you'll like the book. The story itself describes a dreary disutopia and one prisoner's drug-laced nightmare reality...always good summer reading!
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canadianeh avatar reviewed 12 Monkeys on + 242 more book reviews
A great tale of the paradoxes of time travel, that is ten times better than the new series that was just aired on TV. The tv thingy was boring for me and didn't have the suspense of the book. Post-apocalyptic science motivated by desperate circumstances, but somehow reminds me of sending criminals to Australia: few knew exactly what they would find, but the prisoners had little choice. How do you decipher a world you have never seen before? And what will your actions make of this version of history. A great read with great twists!
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I liked the movie,so I wanted to get a little more information on what was happening. But...this book is an adaption from the movie. So it is really just a written version of movie script. Still good, but it does not have anything extra.


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