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The easiest five stars I've given this year.
This book surprised me. I'd been told I'd love it. I'd been told it's awesome. And I know it's to be a movie, but I did not expect to love it and to be as hooked as I was!
I listened to it on Audible and couldn't stop. I popped it on whenever I could.
Fan of gaming? RPGs? Arcades? The eighties? Comics, cartoons, distopian fiction etc.? You'll love it this. It's fun and fast paced, witty and clever. It's an exciting romp through a digital world that trum ...more
This book surprised me. I'd been told I'd love it. I'd been told it's awesome. And I know it's to be a movie, but I did not expect to love it and to be as hooked as I was!
I listened to it on Audible and couldn't stop. I popped it on whenever I could.
Fan of gaming? RPGs? Arcades? The eighties? Comics, cartoons, distopian fiction etc.? You'll love it this. It's fun and fast paced, witty and clever. It's an exciting romp through a digital world that trum ...more
Escaping into a Virtual Reality Environment is a staple motif of science fiction - after all what is reading a novel if not escaping into a virtual reality created within your own headspace. (A reader lives a thousand lives a non-reader lives but one, as G.R.R.Martin once wrote).
In Hyperion Dan Simmons has some of the Yggdrasil's passengers escaping into "erotic stimsims" to while away the long interstellar journeys. Films like Free Guy blur the boundaries between player characters logging into ...more
In Hyperion Dan Simmons has some of the Yggdrasil's passengers escaping into "erotic stimsims" to while away the long interstellar journeys. Films like Free Guy blur the boundaries between player characters logging into ...more
Fantastic! This turned out to be much better than I thought it would be.
Loved this - couldn't read it fast enough
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A Nostalgia Trip Worth Taking
Though the book is quite predictable in that it is a typical heroic journey, there’s a lot here to like. Anyone with even a passing acquaintance with the 80s will be reminded of artifacts from the past on nearly every page. Its context is heavily reliant on gaming culture, but that doesn’t limit the text’s appeal. Overall, this is a fun book to read and it differs considerably from the movie. It’s possible to enjoy both so long as one doesn’t expect them to be carbon ...more
Though the book is quite predictable in that it is a typical heroic journey, there’s a lot here to like. Anyone with even a passing acquaintance with the 80s will be reminded of artifacts from the past on nearly every page. Its context is heavily reliant on gaming culture, but that doesn’t limit the text’s appeal. Overall, this is a fun book to read and it differs considerably from the movie. It’s possible to enjoy both so long as one doesn’t expect them to be carbon ...more
Reads like it was written by Cory Doctrow in places which I found irritating, but a fun and worthwhile book overall.
Aug 21, 2016
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