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Title: Rubberman's Cage

Author: Joseph Picard

Narrator: Matthew Mann

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-04-18

Publisher: Joseph Picard

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dark Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Lenth grew up in a lie. Apparently, there's more than five people in the world.

Four brothers live their lives in an enclosed habitat as directed by the silent Rubberman above them. When they disobey, they get shocked. This is normal. It always has been.

But when a brother dies, they learn of death. When he is replaced by someone new, they learn they are replaceable.

When the ceiling above the ceiling cracks open, Lenth plans a journey beyond the known universe: A third floor.

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Members Reviews:

A cautionary tale

In Rubberman's Cage we have the story of Lenth. Now I happen to hate that name for a character. The story explains it was Length but everyone got too lazy to say the g. Okay I guess. It's Picard's dystopian world so he can do what he likes with the names of his characters. Still hate it.

Lenth lives in a controlled environment with his three Brothers (Picard's capitalization, not mine), and above them through a grate lives the Rubberman. The Rubberman never speaks. He stomps on the grate to get their attention, and shocks them when they don't do as they are supposed to, or don't follow their routine. They eat, exercise, work, shower, and sleep. That's it. All in their tiny little three room world. But one day when their Rubberman isn't directly overhead, someone peeks his head through the ceiling in the Rubberman's room, above their grate, and Lenth figures out there are more than four people in the world (is the Rubberman a person?) and there is more to the world than just the Brothers' rooms and the Rubberman's rooms.

The story goes on as Lenth manages to escape his world and explore the world he never knew existed. With his isolated history he is, in many ways, like a small child. He's never seen a female and doesn't even know they exist. He can't read. He doesn't really know anything. But he's curious and he's eager to learn and explore.

Oddly, considering the world around him, he is allowed to. I won't go into much more detail because I don't want to spoil the story for you.

I will say the book wasn't what I expected, although I am not sure what I expected. It turned out to be sort of a coming of age story of a grown man, combined a morality tale, and with a cautionary look at what our future could become.

I didn't dislike it, but I didn't love it. I'm not even sure if I liked it. But I will say it was interesting and it left me thinking, so all in all, not too shabby.

Great read

Well this was an interesting find! Purchased it on a whim because it sounded intriguing and I loved it, couldn't put it down. Can't wait for the second book.

Interesting and peerless

Interesting and peerless, the story is a master craft which the author had put in his imaginations creatively. The story of the four brothers is quite sad, adventurous, fearless and risk based. Everything was exciting, from knowing the entity behind ther prison type cage up to exploring the world behind it. I was so contented with it had though of it for a while after reading.

A sort of coming-of-age story. Entertaining and dare I ...

A sort of coming-of-age story.