Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twenty-fifth-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, and has established a gro...
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Nov 17, 2011
Melissa
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May 24, 2008
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Oct 24, 2007
Celia
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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 wher 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 wher More...
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Jan 23, 2012
Dave
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I thought the previous books in the series, which weighed in at around 450-500 pages were about 100 pages too long, filled with fluff. Well, this book, which was about 200 pages longer had about 300 too many pages. The characters were forgettable, the plot was convoluted.
In the end, this series was "What If... Wolverine was in space"
In the end, this series was "What If... Wolverine was in space"
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Jan 05, 2012
Kieran
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I was utterly taken by Altered Carbon, Morgans first Takeshi Kovacs book - his second, Broken Angels, however was not great and felt like both the character and his writer were treading water. Woken Furies is a return to form, though not necessarily in the style of the original. Its still hard and fast, descriptive and intelligent but gone is the hard boiled detective noir to be replaced by grim action thriller that is positively epic in scale. An adventure that rolls from side to side of an ali
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Jan 29, 2011
Tancredi
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Terzo e conclusivo episodio della serie di Takeshi Kovacs. Morgan non delude: tutte le caratteristiche di questa serie di romanzi di pura azione sci-fi ritornano, senza mai annoiare. E non mancano le novità.
Questa volta l'antieroe Kovacs se la deve vedere con un problematico ritorno a casa: un mondo completamente cambiato e quasi estraneo, una potente oligarchia locale appoggiata dalla yakuza, la ricerca di una vendetta ferocissima, l'amore (sempre trattenuto, sempre soffocato, evitato) verso u More...
Questa volta l'antieroe Kovacs se la deve vedere con un problematico ritorno a casa: un mondo completamente cambiato e quasi estraneo, una potente oligarchia locale appoggiata dalla yakuza, la ricerca di una vendetta ferocissima, l'amore (sempre trattenuto, sempre soffocato, evitato) verso u More...
Nov 15, 2011
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Jun 09, 2011
Mad
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The first two Takeshi Kovacs novels by Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon and Broken Angels, are pretty amazing, so it's bittersweet to be reading and reviewing Woken Furies, which is billed as the third and last of the series.
Each of the three books featuring Takeshi Kovacs written by Morgan is so different it's hard to call them part of the same series, but they do all feature Kovacs, a hard-bitten, world-weary, brutally efficient killing machine and violent mercenary with his own uni More...
Each of the three books featuring Takeshi Kovacs written by Morgan is so different it's hard to call them part of the same series, but they do all feature Kovacs, a hard-bitten, world-weary, brutally efficient killing machine and violent mercenary with his own uni More...
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Apr 17, 2011
Alan
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Third and home. The first Takeshi Kovacs novel, Altered Carbon, took him to Earth, where he was very much out of place. The second, Broken Angels, brought him back to space, but to an unfamiliar system in the midst of a civil war. For Woken Furies, Kovacs is back home on Harlan's World, the pelagic planet (Harlan's World is about 90% water-covered) on which he was born, and from which he was recruited into the elite U.N. Protectorate's Envoy Corps. (I don't think that it's an intentional homage,
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Nov 22, 2010
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Altered Carbon
Broken Angels
The third and final installment in the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy Woken Furies was a bittersweet read for me. On the one hand, Takeshi is probably the best protagonist I've come across in years. I sincerely want to be him when I grow up, and I feel a special kinship to him. Richard Morgan is a fantastic storyteller with an incredible command of the language, making his books a joy to read. Unfortunately, this is the last planned book featuring Takeshi. I More...
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The third and final installment in the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy Woken Furies was a bittersweet read for me. On the one hand, Takeshi is probably the best protagonist I've come across in years. I sincerely want to be him when I grow up, and I feel a special kinship to him. Richard Morgan is a fantastic storyteller with an incredible command of the language, making his books a joy to read. Unfortunately, this is the last planned book featuring Takeshi. I More...
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Jan 13, 2010
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Apr 17, 2009
Steve
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I was sad to finish this, the last of the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy. Morgan moves Tak into yet a new emotional / mental and in fact physical place, and the book starts out with him stealing the stacks of some priests. It seems someone is paying him to do this. But then he ends up fighting a war against renegade mechs up north on his home world then takes another left turn... and another... and another. There is really no way to tell where a Kovacs book is going unless you are re-reading it.
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Sep 12, 2011
Gavin
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I liked this book best of the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy, it was the most coherent thing I've read from Morgan, and (for a cynical leftist) he was scourging with his honesty both about the main character and the systems through which people govern one another and what can/has to be done to combat them. Another plus: Throughout the entire trilogy he's insisted on having his semi-self-insert sexed up to the nines by various women in variously graphic and usually inappropriate ways. While this is still
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Aug 07, 2010
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Jan 01, 2012
Ricky
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I remember finishing this book and, even at the end, not remembering hardly any of it. There was the salamander sleeves, and the climbing, and the anti-Takeshi, but it was quite convoluted and really hard to follow. Quellcrist was a neat character, but I had to think that there was more that Morgan could have done with her than have her be ambiguous through until the end. The religious dialogue was fantastic, and Morgan flawlessly pursues such questions of faith in a world where mankind has s
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Oct 24, 2011
Sahil
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this book is less sci fi, and more a book of hope, of how hope can overcome nihilism.
on the surface, great sci fi hard boiled detective noir.
takeshi my man, you are one messed up mofo. I hope I never cross your path. as the saying goes, if you throw a punch, you better be willing to end the fight. err, something like that.
at the end of this book, we finally learn what has been driving all of the rage behind the protagonist's seemingly sociopathic behavior. it More...
on the surface, great sci fi hard boiled detective noir.
takeshi my man, you are one messed up mofo. I hope I never cross your path. as the saying goes, if you throw a punch, you better be willing to end the fight. err, something like that.
at the end of this book, we finally learn what has been driving all of the rage behind the protagonist's seemingly sociopathic behavior. it More...
Sep 28, 2011
Chris
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This is actually the first one I've read in this series after finding out on this site that it was in fact the third Takeshi Kovacs novel.
Even so I didn't feel I lost out by not having read the previous stories. Everything I needed to know that was relevant was presented well and in an exciting manner.
I like this kind of future colony type of story especially when the mythology includes lost alien civilisations as a backdrop.
I wish my library had the first tw More...
Even so I didn't feel I lost out by not having read the previous stories. Everything I needed to know that was relevant was presented well and in an exciting manner.
I like this kind of future colony type of story especially when the mythology includes lost alien civilisations as a backdrop.
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Jul 31, 2010
Ryun
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Emerging from the ashes of cyberpunk, Richard K. Morgan hit the scene with ALTERED CARBON, which won the Philip K. Dick award in 2003. WOKEN FURIES is a continuation of the exploits of ALTERED CARBON‘s (and sequel BROKEN ANGELS‘) noir protagonist Takeshi Kovacs.
Neurologically trained by the government to be part of an elite squad of infiltrators and insurgents, Kovacs is man a half-step away from humanity who is able to observe the brutal cycle of human nature with a sneer and, at th More...
Neurologically trained by the government to be part of an elite squad of infiltrators and insurgents, Kovacs is man a half-step away from humanity who is able to observe the brutal cycle of human nature with a sneer and, at th More...
May 13, 2011
Sarahlynn
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I'm giving the whole trilogy 4 stars because I love Morgan's writing (at least the Takeshi Kovacs stuff). I stretched this trilogy over two years and savored each novel like candy. But the third installment is not as good as the first two. (When is it ever? Ditto Mockingjay, whatever came third in the Enderverse, etc.) In Woken Furies there's a bit too much philosophical debate and a few too many characters to keep track of for my taste. Already half lost in a partially defined far future world
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Aug 18, 2011
Andreas
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The third Takeshi Kovacs novel is just as violent and X-rated as the previous installments. Morgan has not lost his gift for film noir cool and deep cynicism. So far so good. However, while Altered Carbon was a tightly written masterpiece and Broken Angels had an intriguing plot device, Woken Furies is much less focused. Sometimes it seems like Morgan is just taking the reader on a guided tour of Kovacs’ old stomping grounds on our hero’s native Harlan’s World. Granted, the guided tour is very v
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Aug 22, 2009
AM
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I'll probably say the same thing here that I've said about the first two book in this series. I LOVE the world building. It is gritty and violent, but you want to know what is happening around every corner. I listened to this on on audio and my only complaint is, unless I'm mistaken, they've changed the pronunciation of the main character's last name from the first two audio books. Kovacs is a bastard but he's still the good guy. It this finally installment lots of pieces fall into place. We met
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Jun 16, 2009
Vamshidhar
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Not as good as Altered Carbon, probably better than Broken Angels. If you enjoy Altered Carbon, read the other two.
This review refers to the series (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies). Great detective thriller, a film noir tone, and pretty good sci-fi thrown in as well. The books are well written and if you like good detective novels, there's enough of that to keep you happy. The sci-fi notions of sleeves and neurachem are well done as well, particularly the juxtapositio More...
This review refers to the series (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels and Woken Furies). Great detective thriller, a film noir tone, and pretty good sci-fi thrown in as well. The books are well written and if you like good detective novels, there's enough of that to keep you happy. The sci-fi notions of sleeves and neurachem are well done as well, particularly the juxtapositio More...
Mar 12, 2009
Jeremy
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Morgan is one of the few currently working scifi writers that really interests me; in fact, he's the only one whose books I eagerly await. This book, the third about the character Takashi Kovacs, continues to complicate the future world that Morgan initially invented for the novel Altered Carbon. This particular entry in the series suffers from excess. It's too long with too many unnecessary fight scenes and a couple forced sex scenes between people who don't even really seem attracted to eac
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Nov 19, 2010
Jennifer
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Each time I jump into the complex, noir-y, and slightly dizzying world of Richard K. Morgan's sci fi novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, I wonder how Morgan does it. He creates a future world that is both disoriently different from our own yet also eerily (and perhaps depressingly) the same. Money still rules. People are still oppressed. Rebellions and resistance occur but are often crushed. In this future world, death is postponed for most because one's consciousness can be downloaded into a
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Jan 24, 2011
April the Cheshire Meow
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Book three is as first rate as the other two in the series. It has the most different tone from the other two as it involves traveling around Takeshi's home planet with different companions as the plot morphs from one adventure involving certain motivations to another journey with different people, but our hero is not a man with a horse to race in this last book as he was in the other two. While the author has fun developing how his universe works with three distinct themes in each book (deprav
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Jun 29, 2011
Richard Morgan's thrillers are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. I mean, they're thrillers, and they've got (tut-tut) cyberpunk tropes, but hell, I like 'em.
This is the third Kovacs novel, and the action keeps on being cool, the protagonist continues to be an interesting anti-hero (even if he does have a tediously large amount of sex) and the plot, whilst a bit slow to get going, delivers in the end.
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This is the third Kovacs novel, and the action keeps on being cool, the protagonist continues to be an interesting anti-hero (even if he does have a tediously large amount of sex) and the plot, whilst a bit slow to get going, delivers in the end.
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Aug 07, 2011
Neil
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It takes a long time for a plot to emerge and even then it feels a little weaker than the first two novels. I also thought a much bigger deal would be made of the younger kovacs. Having finished the book, i realise this chapter was focused on the character study of a broken man and much of the plot reinforces that theme.
I can understand why Richard Morgan has decided to quit the character, as another one may be one too many. Hopefully he can get some other stories and characters off his chest a More...
I can understand why Richard Morgan has decided to quit the character, as another one may be one too many. Hopefully he can get some other stories and characters off his chest a More...
Aug 16, 2010
Benjamin
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The third Takeshi Kovacs novel. I liked this one a hair more than the second. There's lots of revelation about Kovacs's early life, which is of interest to readers who are fans by this point, though I preferred the unspoken backstory of the first novel. I'm not sure what it is about these novels, but I get really slowed down about two thirds of the way through. There's nothing obviously wrong, and I enjoy them, so I'm not blaming the author for this. Just can't decide why I love the beginnings s
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Mar 15, 2009
This is my favorite of the three Kovacs novels, I think. Part of this is the archaeological discovery; part of it is the larger understanding of what death now means in a world where it is harder to die. (Images from the market where Tak picks up his new team haunted me almost as much as they did him, but in a different way, at least...). Like the first book, it would have been fairly standard action-adventure except that it takes place in a richly imagined and engrossing future that is a plau
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Apr 07, 2011
Rachel
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This third novel in the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy bring Kovacs back to his home town on Harlans World and delves further into his personal history than either of the previous novels. While enjoyable I found this installment to be longer than I wanted it to be and it had a habit of jumping through time that made me feel like I had missed something. Once again an audio read for me I ran the chapters back often to make sure I hadn't skipped something by accident. Worth reading but the first two nov
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