Javery

Excellent narration, boring story

Revisado: 08-30-23

I can’t believe I read another of these books. They are so boring and tedious. At the same time, Adjoa Andoh is extremely talented and worth listening to.

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Delightful

Revisado: 06-09-23

I enjoyed this book! Full cast. Great quality. You should read. Four more words here.

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Not a bad story, but not what I was expecting

Revisado: 05-30-23

This is a bit different than I’m used to from the author. Good narration, an intriguing story, but very different from his other novels. This might have been a good one for Aidan Truhen maybe?

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Full of win

Revisado: 04-22-23

Another excellent story from Nick Harkaway. I want to know how he gets such good narrators for each of his books!

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Hilarious

Revisado: 02-23-23

A real treat. This was less of an autobiography than a series of extremely entertaining stories told from various points throughout the author’s life. Absolutely perfect. I don’t need some half-assed attempt to shoehorn an overarching narrative on top of the autobiography of an actor, I just want to be entertained for a little while! Much appreciated!

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Very Disappointing

Revisado: 06-30-19

** spoiler alert **


I couldn’t decide on two or three stars for this one. It was pretty disappointing. I’ve been a fan of this author since Snow Crash, and have followed his subsequent novels since the late 90’s. With the depth, style, and sophistication of those earlier novels in mind, I had high hopes for this one, which promised to be something akin to Stephenson’s take on the Singularity. I was hoping for something more like Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon or even Reamde. This managed to be even less entertaining than SevenEves.
The characters were completely forgettable and unremarkable, as few were given enough time to develop. Most of the subplots (Ameristan?) and a great deal of the characters introduced earlier in this book are completely forgotten by the end, which makes you wonder why they were included in the first place.
The detailed exploration of scientific and technological ideas that I’d enjoyed in his previous works was completely abandoned in this book, as for instance, he spends about as much time expounding upon one character’s adventures on a logging crew as he does exploring the technical details and societal consequences of uploading consciousness.
About 2/3 of the way through, after the entirety of the story moves to bitworld, I just about gave up on the book. This part was really tedious. Endless throwaway characters and subplots that you can easily ignore. As another reviewer has commented, he has taken his biblical allegories so far here, he made this section as boring as actually reading the Bible. Like many others reviewers here, I wish the author had even a halfway decent editor, someone who could have made him cut this section down to about a tenth of its length. Sadly, it went on for so long, I forgot the parts of this book that I actually liked. There, I decided on two stars.

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