Book Review: Altered Carbon
Mar. 5th, 2004 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gementHi. My room is messy, I'm going OCD about my library job to the tune of 18.5 hours this week (but it's fun!), and I'm chicken about calling temp agencies in Seattle.
I'm stacked, backed-up, and I'm fifth dan,
And I ain't afraid of the Patchwork Man.
I just read Altered Carbon, which was a lot of fun, but I didn't quite have the focus to get everything out of it. It's cyberpunk noir, so the clues are everywhere, thick as flies, and the constant "resleeving" (body swap) made my head spin. This is partly because I've lost some of my ability to read for details over the years, but partly because it's just a damn disorienting book.
So, for those of you who like surfing in a high-data ocean of tech toys, excellently fun book. For those of you who got irritated at Lord of the Rings for unnecessary name proliferation, probably too low a signal-to-noise ratio. Also, if you have any opinion on that sort of thing, the author's vision of 25th century Catholics is zealot Luddites.
I made an observation in the last two days: There's a reason my public library's selection of science fiction is not as good as it could be, and it's our own fault. See next entry.
I'm stacked, backed-up, and I'm fifth dan,
And I ain't afraid of the Patchwork Man.
I just read Altered Carbon, which was a lot of fun, but I didn't quite have the focus to get everything out of it. It's cyberpunk noir, so the clues are everywhere, thick as flies, and the constant "resleeving" (body swap) made my head spin. This is partly because I've lost some of my ability to read for details over the years, but partly because it's just a damn disorienting book.
So, for those of you who like surfing in a high-data ocean of tech toys, excellently fun book. For those of you who got irritated at Lord of the Rings for unnecessary name proliferation, probably too low a signal-to-noise ratio. Also, if you have any opinion on that sort of thing, the author's vision of 25th century Catholics is zealot Luddites.
I made an observation in the last two days: There's a reason my public library's selection of science fiction is not as good as it could be, and it's our own fault. See next entry.
