Woken Furies
by Richard K. Morgan
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Read in May, 2008
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This one was a mixed bag and I may be coming down on it too hard. On one hand, three Takeshi Kovacs books read so closely together is a bit much for me.
All the hard-boiled machismo kind of wears thin after a while and it all comes of like a Brock Samson rampage. And the sex in the series has kind of annoyed me, at least in the second and third books. I don't mind explicit sexual content if it has purpose within the context of the overall work -- and I felt like it did in "Altered Carbo...more
All the hard-boiled machismo kind of wears thin after a while and it all comes of like a Brock Samson rampage. And the sex in the series has kind of annoyed me, at least in the second and third books. I don't mind explicit sexual content if it has purpose within the context of the overall work -- and I felt like it did in "Altered Carbo...more
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Read in June, 2008
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I'm a fan of Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs series, so this book got bonus points just for being the latest in a series that I really like. As always, it had the combination of physical action (violence, and yes, sex too) and intellectual speculation that made Altered Carbon and Broken Angels so much fun. The central idea of all of these books is the notion that personalities, even self-awareness, can all be stored on tiny servers in the spinal column and "resleaved" in other bodies...more
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Read in August, 2007
akeshi Kovacs is probably not a man that most of us would really want in our lives. He's very competent and capable of being incredible cold. This is the third and probably last of the books featuring him. Its set in a distant future where humans have spread out to the stars and have learned the trick of backing up personalities and downloading them into new bodies when the old ones get worn out. It's a similar concept to what Peter Hamilton has done in some of books but author Richard Morgan's ...more
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Read in May, 2008
The third (and final?) installment in Morgan’s series featuring anti-hero Takeshi Kovacs finds the protagonist returned to his home, Harlan’s World. Kovacs finds himself embroiled in a nascent uprising featuring a long dead revolutionary leader, all while on the run from the yakuza…and a younger version of himself. Furies is more in the vein of Broken Angels than Altered Carbon, and while it is interesting to finally see Tak’s homeworld, the plot is full of so many twists and turns that ...more
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Read in October, 2007
I enjoyed this a little less than the other two books in this loose series - by which I mean they have the same central character, Takeshi Kovacs, but don't particularly lead on from one another story-wise.
I found "Woken Furies" rather confusing - Takeshi is back on Harlan's World, his birth planet, and is embroiled in its internal politics - a new revolution is brewing. Tak has his own agenda, and it all gets terribly involved - I rather preferred the other stories where he was...more
I found "Woken Furies" rather confusing - Takeshi is back on Harlan's World, his birth planet, and is embroiled in its internal politics - a new revolution is brewing. Tak has his own agenda, and it all gets terribly involved - I rather preferred the other stories where he was...more
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Altered Carbon was great, but as Richard Morgan writes more novels set in that world, some bad traits tend to stick out. Number one - either the author has never been with a woman, or he just chooses to write some of the most awkward sexual conquests I've ever read. Two - his choice of feminine references is a little harsher than I care to read. Three - Takeshi Kovacs is invincible. No matter what the situation, Tak was prepped, trained, and ready for it three years ago and surviving it in r...more
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Read in May, 2008
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Benrecommends it for: cyberpunk fans, revolutionaries
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Read in August, 2007
While the Takeshi Kovacs books remain dark in nature due to their cyberpunk theme, this third novel seemed to be the darkest of the three. Kovacs is revived on his homeworld of Harlan's World this time, where he undertakes a personal vendetta against a female-repressive religious group that inadvertantly leads him to involvement in a deeper plot involving evolving human cybernetic technology. Kovacs has always been a strong anti-hero, but this book had me really torn in whether or not I still ...more
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Read in December, 2007
Woken Furies is a worthy follow-up to Altered Carbon and Broken Angels but I did find it less appealing. We are now back on Harlan's World -- Kovacs' birthplace -- and though the descriptions of this world and its inhabitants is engrossing, this book is painted with broader strokes and feels less satisfying than the precursor. I found the ending mildly unsatisfying, and the lulls of Broken Angels are longer here. It seemed to me that Morgan was getting tired of writing for Takeshi Kovacs at t...more
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recommends it for:
Cyberpunk fans
Takashi Kovacs goes home, and we finally see him where he belongs. Morgan returns with some wonderful characters in Kovacs' world, people who are as morally compromised as Kovacs himself (indeed, one of the characters I enjoyed the most was another Envoy) and he gets to know some of the most important influences in his life as real people, all the while fighting for a cause that means something to him. Action, characterization, Kovacs' series ends with a satisfying bang.
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Read in February, 2008
A fine ending to a wonderful series.
The first book looks at a world where rich people are functionally immortal and the intricacies of sleeving in new bodies. The second book looks at the long departed Martians and how their lost technology might effect the human worlds.
The last book takes both of these pieces and shows how they effect a group of people really trying to bring about a revolution and we get to see Quellism right up close.
Great stuff.
The first book looks at a world where rich people are functionally immortal and the intricacies of sleeving in new bodies. The second book looks at the long departed Martians and how their lost technology might effect the human worlds.
The last book takes both of these pieces and shows how they effect a group of people really trying to bring about a revolution and we get to see Quellism right up close.
Great stuff.
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Read in June, 2008
Feel like I'm coming to the party a bit late. I read Altered Carbon last October and now beginning Woken Furies. I bought it at Half Price Books (LOVE that place) thinking it was the second volume of the Takeshi Kovacs saga. Nope! Wrong. It's the fourth! What am I going to do? Read it! I assume it stands alone and will fill in his backstory. Sacralige? Would you do this? Let me know. Maybe once I start it I'll realize I should wait to get the second one.
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Read in January, 2007
recommends it for:
cyberpunks and other "fringe dwellers"
This author can write! He may be a little full of himself, bragging about selling the rights to these books to some big time movie studio in his bio. BUT: the Takeshi Kovacs novels are
proof that cyberpunk is still evolving... NOT DEAD YET! While Neal Stephenson is using historical sci-fi as his new medium, Morgan is moving forward. The series is a great read,
the cliched "you won't be able to put it down."
proof that cyberpunk is still evolving... NOT DEAD YET! While Neal Stephenson is using historical sci-fi as his new medium, Morgan is moving forward. The series is a great read,
the cliched "you won't be able to put it down."
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I liked this considerably more than fallen angels, though it didn't measure up to the first in the series, altered carbon
the summative quality of it was enjoyable, although I have to admit that there were times when the insane level of bloodshed overshadowed the story line. there were also strange reoccurring themes not entirely fleshed out....
in the end, definitely worth reading though
the summative quality of it was enjoyable, although I have to admit that there were times when the insane level of bloodshed overshadowed the story line. there were also strange reoccurring themes not entirely fleshed out....
in the end, definitely worth reading though
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Read in February, 2008
The Takeshi Kovacs books are very disjointed. This hadn't really struck me until I re-read them in quick succession. In part it's an artifact of the world and the character's... varying endocrinology from book to book, but it sometimes seems like there's a different lead character in each volume. Luckily the common elements of violence, mystery and cyberpunk between them all make me happy.
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Read in July, 2007
recommends it for:
film noir / sci-fi fans
While I love the feel and atmosphere of the Takeshi Kovacs novels, the build up of the stories, the fantastic characeters, none of the books has ended in a satisfying way (or at least in a non-deus ex machina way).
If you don't mind being frustrated at the end of a book and you're happy to just enjoy the story as you go along, then these are solid books.
If you don't mind being frustrated at the end of a book and you're happy to just enjoy the story as you go along, then these are solid books.
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Read in April, 2008
Kovacs returns to his home world and deals with his past including a younger copy of himself who has been contracted to kill him. This book is more complex than the previous two, and we learn a lot more about how Kovacs got to be who he is. It ties up most of the loose ends from the previous novels giving a fairly satisfying end to the trilogy.
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In this third installment, Tak's self-absorbed rage issues are getting a little old, and the expectation that a certain plot element will come forward and rock the house are disappointingly un-realilzed throughout most of the book.
Still, this is a good series, and I'm hoping it will revive with more vigor in future volumes.
Still, this is a good series, and I'm hoping it will revive with more vigor in future volumes.
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