Daemon
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- ISBN13: 9780143144441
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When a designer of computer games dies, he leaves behind a program that unravels the Internet’s interconnected world. It corrupts, kills, and runs independent of human control. It’s up to Detective Peter Sebeck to wrest the world from the malevolent virtual enemy before its essential purpose is realized: to ruin civilization…
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Robin Cook on Daemon
Doctor and leader Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word “medical” to the thriller genre. Thirty-one years after the publication of his leap forwards novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he made, including his most recent bestseller, Foreign Body, which explores a growing trend of medical tourism–first-world citizens traveling to third-world countries for 21st-century surgery.
Daemon is an ambitious novel, which sets out not only to entertain, which it surely does, but also to challenge the reader to consider social issues as broad as the implications of living in a technologically advanced world and whether democracy can survive in such a world.
The storyline describes one possible world consequent to the development of the technological innovations that we currently live with and the reality that the leader, Suarez, imagines will evolve, and it is chilling and tense (on www.thedaemon.com the reader can find evidence that the seemingly incredible advances Suarez proposes could in fact become real). Daemon is filled with multiple scenes involving power displays by the Daemon’s allies resulting in perfect loss of control by its enemies, violence with new and innovative weaponry, explosions, car crashes, blood, guts, and limbs-cut-off galore.
As far as computer complexity, Daemon will satisfy any computer geek’s thirst. I was thankful for Pete Sebeck, the detective in the book whose average-person understanding of computers necessitates an occasional explanation about what is going on. I came away from the novel with a new understanding, respect, and dread of computer capability.
In the end, Suarez invites the reader to enter the “second age of reason,” to reflect about where recent and imminent advances in computer equipment are taking us and whether we want to go there. For me, it is this “thinking” aspect of the novel which makes it a particularly fun, satisfying, and significant read.
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Honest warning: this was such a terrible book that I only made about 2/3rds of the way through it. The fact that it currently has 4 stars on Amazon makes me reflect the review system is nearly worthless and I have to write this review in the hopes that it helps a name avoid wasting their money.
The first thirty pages are entertaining, the second thirty will place you thinking “wait, that doesn’t reasonably make sense” and the rest will place you a small disturbed that you’re wasting time reading it.
For example, at one point, we’re supposed to judge that a computer program scans the newspaper headlines, sees news about a fired reporter, finds her cell phone number and personal data somehow, then calls her and convinces her to go to a hotel room where she can photograph a cop across the street cheating on his wife. And, honestly, that’s one of the more believable premises in the book. Rumor has it that, the evil villain made an AI that has access to every database in the world, understands human psychology completely and can predict the future nearly 100% accurately – meanwhile, our government is filled with idiots who are only excellent at keeping everything secret.
If you don’t mind huge plot holes and just want a quick-paced read that you don’t want to reflect about, this might fit the bill. If you need even a small plot consistency or believability, stay far, far away.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I had heard about this book on a radio program. It sounded like a excellent book and one I would delight in. I did not like the book. The thought of the daemon is excellent and a real possiblility, but the tale line was not to my liking. I would not recommend the book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I’m worried that I didn’t know most of what was going on in this book – but, I’m not very techie. If you feel like you know most anything involved in the tech/computer world, you’d probably delight in it.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The first three chapters do a passable job of plot development and getting the evil gamer Matthew Sobol’s character introduced to the reader. Then, in chapter 4, the wheels come off.
Gratuitous sex, drugs and partying, seamy characters, foul language – this does absolutely nothing to further the tale. In fact, I establish it a perfect turn-off.
Blood and gore surround the primary characters throughout the book. Even if you suspend disbelief, you cannot help but question “Why did Suraez write this piece of trash?”
Do not be fooled by the testimonials on the back flyleaf. Most of them are from people who he acknowledges at the end of the book as providing “time and effort” with his writing. It’s like having your mother write a review of your book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was interested in this book after I read about the authors second book. As I am an avid reader I chose to start with his first book. I read the sample and while it was pretty technical I though the theme was appealing. Once I had bought the book it suddenly went from a young man stealing personal information off the internet to arranging a RAVE party with drugs and a sexual tale that was being played over the internet. I realize that this is another possible use of computer crime but it really didn’t follow the tale up to that point. I was disappointed and read no further. In reading some of the additional comments that there was a very poor ending I don’t intend to go back to the book and try it again, and will remove it from my kindle.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5