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Steve

santa cruz, CA, United States | Member Since 2005

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  • Halting State

    • UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 27 mins)
    • By Charles Stross
    • Narrated By Robert Ian MacKenzie
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (107)
    Performance
    (59)
    Story
    (59)

    The year is 2012, and China, India, and the United States are waging an infowar for economic domination. With innocent gamers mere pawns in the hands of electronic intelligence agencies, programmer Jack Reed is tasked with ferreting out the plot of those who would gladly trade global turmoil for personal gain.

    Carl says: "2 Smart Books Well Worth the Listen - Great Reader"
    "not snow crash"
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    Performance
    Story

    I was hoping for something with the style and depth that Neal Stephenson brought to Snow Crash. It wasn't even close. The story is told from multiple perspectives shifting between three' maybe four characters, without warning and just in case the reader is unable to follow the story, the writer finds the need to recap events throughout the story perhaps 8 times. The story takes place a little ways into the future and relies heavily on descriptions of current state of art technology. These will be dated in few years. In the end, the writer had to explain what took place. And, yes it was necessary.

    2 of 4 people found this review helpful

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