Diana's review of Thirteen
Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan
Diana's review
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Read in February, 2008
I know a lot of people think Morgan is the best thing since sliced bread but I think his books must be more of an acquired taste. I loathed Market Forces so he must be growing on me since this one was ok.
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Market Forces is far from Morgan's strongest work. Kudos to you for sticking with him. May I recommend his Altered Carbon if you want to pursue him further?-Jim
Hi Jim,Thanks. I'm going to have to try Altered Carbon since it seems to be, from all the reader reviews, his best. I love mystery noir and sf so perhaps it will work for me.
Altered Carbon is a solid mystery noir book. It's got the same flare for cyberpunk ultra-violence that Morgan shows in Thirteen/Black Man, but messy violence was always part of noir. (I've been re-reading my Chandler.) Broken Angels is the second book in the series, but is more military in nature, and thus more brutal. It has a lot of fascinating ideas, though.
Woken Furies is almost a redemption story for Kovacs, the main character through all three books.
