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Three Years with the Rat

von Jay Hosking

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"Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One of the most assured and haunting debuts I've read in recent memory." --Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter After several years of drifting between school and go-nowhere jobs, a young man is drawn back into the big city of his youth. The magnet is his beloved older sister, Grace: always smart and charismatic even when she was rebelling, and always his hero. Now she is a promising graduate student in psychophysics and the center of a group of friends who take "Little Brother" into their fold, where he finds camaraderie, romance, and even a decent job. But it soon becomes clear that things are not well with Grace. Always acerbic, she now veers into sudden rages that are increasingly directed at her adoring boyfriend, John, who is also her fellow researcher. When Grace disappears, and John shortly thereafter, the narrator makes an astonishing discovery in their apartment: a box big enough to crawl inside, a lab rat, and a note that says This is the only way back for us. Soon he embarks on a mission to discover the truth, a pursuit that forces him to question time and space itself, and ultimately toward a perilous confrontation at the very limits of imagination. This kinetic novel catapults the classic noir plot of a woman gone missing into the twenty-first-century city, where so-called reality crashes into speculative science in a novel reminiscent of Danielewski's House of Leaves. Jay Hosking's Three Years with the Rat is simultaneously a mind-twisting mystery that plays with the very nature of time and the story of a young man who must face the dangerously destructive forces we all carry within ourselves. "-- "After drifting between school and dead-end jobs, a young man makes the decision to return to the city he left after high school. The magnet is his beloved older sister, Grace: the golden girl, smart and charismatic even when rebelling, and always his hero. Now she is a promising graduate student in science and the center of a group of friends that take "Little Brother" into their fold, where he finds camaraderie, romance, and even a decent job. But it soon becomes clear that all is not well with Grace. She veers into sudden rages, often directed at her seemingly adoring boyfriend, John, who is engaged in the same field of research. Her accusations of betrayal are cryptic, and her brother is especially confused and troubled when she turns on him, accusing him of a fatal disloyalty. A visit to their mother triggers an episode that suggests Grace has tumbled into serious mental illness--except that John seems to know more than he is telling, and some supposedly objective certainties about what is real seem to be starting to fracture. When Grace disappears, the narrator embarks on a mission to discover the truth, a quest that brings him up against an astonishing question: if the universe is infinite, could there be infinite variations of ourselves, past, present, and future, in a dimension only a few can even imagine? And if there are, and we could enter that dimension, what might confront us? And could we ever make it back?"--… (mehr)
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I'm giving this one a four, as the bulk of the book was really enjoyable, with a surprisingly sweet love story at its heart. The writing was, for the most part, exceptionally good (but there were a few bone-jarring sentences here and there).

I even enjoyed the 2008/2007/2006 format of the narrative quite a bit.

My problem is with the ending. And, unfortunately, it's my problem with most mind-bending story endings.

I find that an author can set up a scenario that's quite cool (I'm looking at you, Raw Shark Texts and Area X trilogy), and the suspense builds and builds until the author actually takes you to that world...and it then always seems to come down to one of two things...

1 - it's essentially just our world with some minor changes (lame), or...
2 - it's fairly different, but the author decides not to explain it, so you don't know what the fuck they're on about.

This one kind of covers both aspects, making it even more frustrating. Much of what happens is not explained at the end, and the world over there is basically our world, for the most part.

And then there's a central point that simply doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever... but it's spoiler territory, so I'll hide it behind the Spoiler Wall...

If Grace has found a way to move over to subjective time, that is, to finally be completely alone... how the fuck do both John and Grace's younger brother (the narrator) get there? And why is NO ONE ELSE there, except Officer 2510, who seems to just show up to move the plot along?

Makes no sense. Wouldn't they all ultimately end up inhabiting their own individual subjective time worlds?

Also, what the hell is with the dirt from the dead end near John's and why is it so special and how does he know this? And what did he dig up?

Far too many unanswered questions.



So, in the end, five stars for the lead up, but only three for the ending.
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  TobinElliott | Sep 3, 2021 |
I really really really wanted to like this story. But I didn't. I was able to follow along for the most part but there were times when I really felt like I missed the point. This book had an interesting idea but I think it failed when it came to execution. There was really nothing I loved about this novel - other than the reference to different places in Toronto, of course. I didn't like any of the characters. They fell flat and had a one dimensional personality that was hard to love. I simply had no connection and that led me to not care about the story at all. There were times when the story was moving along but I had no clue what was going on; it made me wish the author would explain his thoughts a bit more so that I could follow along. It was slow-paced and not much really happened in the novel. Unfortunately, this story left me feeling quite disappointed. Unless you are really into space and time paradoxes, I wouldn't recommend this novel.

For more reviews, visit: www.veereading.wordpress.com ( )
  veeshee | Jan 29, 2018 |
After spending many years drifting between school and go-nowhere jobs, a young man is drawn back to the city where he grew up which is where his older sister, Grace, is living. Grace is a promising graduate student in psychophysics, she has a boyfriend who absolutely adores her and a small group of caring friends - friends that welcome "Little Brother" with open arms. Not long after arriving in the city it becomes clear that something is off with his sister. She flies into sudden rages, usually directed at her boyfriend who also happens to be her fellow researcher. When Grace disappears and her boyfriend shortly afterwards, the narrator makes a discovery while cleaning out their apartment - a box big enough to crawl inside, a lab rat, and a note that reads 'this is the only way back for us.' He then embarks on a quest to find out what happened to his sister, a pursuit that forces him to question both time and space.

Honestly, I'm not sure how to put in words what I felt about this book. It's complex, it's interesting and it will bend your mind into a pretzel. Not a whole lot happens in the book, but it was still a page-turner. The characters felt real. I especially loved Buddy and now want a pet rat. And I loved the setting- Toronto! ( )
1 abstimmen jenn88 | Apr 25, 2017 |
I liked the way the author constructed the the story. It kept me going til the end. ( )
  marysneedle | Mar 10, 2017 |
This what I call a delicious read. A Sci mystery, twists, conflicts and self-arguments. This book is full of them.
Story is about a young brother who comes back to the city after some years and start hanging out with his sister, her boyfriend and their friends. His sister goes missing one day and after a year the boyfriend goes missing too. To try to search and find these two the young brother steps in the crazy path those two already passed through.
Never in the story have learn about the young brother name despite the fact that he is the main character. He’s always called by names given to him by others Danger,Little Brother,Scruffy and it seems that actually he is being shaped by others. Always looking up to his sister he is confused when she disappears. As he proceed in solving the mystery of their research and disappearance he finds himself too.
Totally recommended if you enjoy mental games. ( )
  ardvisoor | Feb 2, 2017 |
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"Three Years with the Rat is a mind-warping thriller that will make you question reality as you conceive of it. One of the most assured and haunting debuts I've read in recent memory." --Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter After several years of drifting between school and go-nowhere jobs, a young man is drawn back into the big city of his youth. The magnet is his beloved older sister, Grace: always smart and charismatic even when she was rebelling, and always his hero. Now she is a promising graduate student in psychophysics and the center of a group of friends who take "Little Brother" into their fold, where he finds camaraderie, romance, and even a decent job. But it soon becomes clear that things are not well with Grace. Always acerbic, she now veers into sudden rages that are increasingly directed at her adoring boyfriend, John, who is also her fellow researcher. When Grace disappears, and John shortly thereafter, the narrator makes an astonishing discovery in their apartment: a box big enough to crawl inside, a lab rat, and a note that says This is the only way back for us. Soon he embarks on a mission to discover the truth, a pursuit that forces him to question time and space itself, and ultimately toward a perilous confrontation at the very limits of imagination. This kinetic novel catapults the classic noir plot of a woman gone missing into the twenty-first-century city, where so-called reality crashes into speculative science in a novel reminiscent of Danielewski's House of Leaves. Jay Hosking's Three Years with the Rat is simultaneously a mind-twisting mystery that plays with the very nature of time and the story of a young man who must face the dangerously destructive forces we all carry within ourselves. "-- "After drifting between school and dead-end jobs, a young man makes the decision to return to the city he left after high school. The magnet is his beloved older sister, Grace: the golden girl, smart and charismatic even when rebelling, and always his hero. Now she is a promising graduate student in science and the center of a group of friends that take "Little Brother" into their fold, where he finds camaraderie, romance, and even a decent job. But it soon becomes clear that all is not well with Grace. She veers into sudden rages, often directed at her seemingly adoring boyfriend, John, who is engaged in the same field of research. Her accusations of betrayal are cryptic, and her brother is especially confused and troubled when she turns on him, accusing him of a fatal disloyalty. A visit to their mother triggers an episode that suggests Grace has tumbled into serious mental illness--except that John seems to know more than he is telling, and some supposedly objective certainties about what is real seem to be starting to fracture. When Grace disappears, the narrator embarks on a mission to discover the truth, a quest that brings him up against an astonishing question: if the universe is infinite, could there be infinite variations of ourselves, past, present, and future, in a dimension only a few can even imagine? And if there are, and we could enter that dimension, what might confront us? And could we ever make it back?"--

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