Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel
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- ISBN13: 9780345457691
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in equipment have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) building death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.
Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats “being” as something that can be bought and sold. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning. . . .
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Who edited this garbage mascerading as a book? “Altered Carbon” has to be the worst book I’ve ever read. By the time you are 10 pages in you want to throw the book across the room. By the time you are on page 100 you woner how you can get 2 hours of your life back. This is the only book I’ve never finished! Don’t judge the hype skip this dreadful book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Reminds me of the kind of stuff I saw in my junior college creative writing workshops. Really. Sorry to be rough on the guy and God bless him for putting it out there, but I was so bothered by the stilted writing that I had to place it down. Completely unsubtle, dull use of the language. Like a white boy playing the blues: the guy has a couple chops but lacks soul. Who cares?
Read William Gibson again (or for the first time GO NOW!) for chrissakes. How many pages did I get through? About 20 I guess, maybe a couple more. Admittedly, it’s not completely honest of me to review a book I hardly ongoing, but I’m suggesting that you not make the same mistake I did and spend money on this. Further, I’d rather re-read Neuromancer a thousand times than take another crack at this brick so this is what you get.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Based on additional excellent reviews I saw here on Amazon, I made an impulse buy of this book for my Kindle, since I like science fiction.
After reading about 5-6 pages, I realized I had made a mistake in purchasing it.
The characterization is buffoonish and weak and the writing is awkward as well.
Anways, if you have a Kindle, try to read the sample chapter as a replacement for of buying it outright. You will likely save yourself some money.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I give this book one star and that only because it was late night reading before I was ready to nod off.
This is pseudo cyberpunk meets the wild west. It should appeal to the gadget hungry Yugeo set, persons who invent plots and tech where and when you get into a confront.
Extropians and techies will like it because it has one of every possible thought once we find that we can download the human mind into a chip which is not much more than the portable media we carry on a watch chain today.
Oh, yes, go over Bester, we can travel mentally into stored replacas or any additional body where the chip has been removed.
How does the leader extend this tale to over 500 pages? He watches the cartoon series shown on afternoon TV.
Give Rambo access to James Bond’s store of gadgets. Wind him up and turn him loose on some pseudo renegade mission, inventing subplots to keep Rambo on his carnage battle and you have the tale. Don’t bother worrying about any substance; just revel in the carnage.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Probably one of the most annoying sci-fi writers alive.
There ARE some excellent thoughts here but the narrative is so cheese-ball in its attempt at trying to be Mickey Spillane-meets-William Gibson that I couldn’t get past the first hundred or so pages. You could nearly see Morgan pushing to get the take in blurbs he had in mind (“A new, stylish writer and the heir-apparent of Philip K. Dick and Neal Stephenson!!”).
If Morgan could turn down the faux over-the-top style and perhaps team up with another writer who could moderate his Bi-polar tendencies we could be looking at some excellent sci-fi here.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5