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Notorious thief Jean de Flambeur is broken out of prison by someone who wants to hire him. It is the future and everything is desperately cool with awesomely cool monikers.
I didn't get very far in this one. It is hopelessly mired in cool-sounding invented words and concepts, to the point of being almost impenetrable. Mr. Rajaniemi is undoubtedly a gifted writer and there might have been a good story somewhere in this novel, but unfortunately the "cool prose" made me want to hurl my ereader into ...more
I didn't get very far in this one. It is hopelessly mired in cool-sounding invented words and concepts, to the point of being almost impenetrable. Mr. Rajaniemi is undoubtedly a gifted writer and there might have been a good story somewhere in this novel, but unfortunately the "cool prose" made me want to hurl my ereader into ...more
Leí este libro sin saber que era la primera parte de una trilogía ya planeada, lo cual es evidente al final. Normalmente eso no me agrada mucho, pero con esta serie haré una excepción ;)
La historia es muy interesante: Jean le Flambeur, ladrón legendario en el Sistema Solar post-Singularidad (a unos 400 años en el futuro) escapa de una prisión virtual para embarcarse en un ambicioso robo. La misión lo lleva a Marte, a la ciudad de Oubliette, donde se encuentra con personajes de su pasado y con su ...more
La historia es muy interesante: Jean le Flambeur, ladrón legendario en el Sistema Solar post-Singularidad (a unos 400 años en el futuro) escapa de una prisión virtual para embarcarse en un ambicioso robo. La misión lo lleva a Marte, a la ciudad de Oubliette, donde se encuentra con personajes de su pasado y con su ...more
Jan 27, 2014
Anya
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
in-my-library-paper,
modern-scifi-cyber
Actual Rating = 3.5 stars
What to say about this mind bender? Reading this reminded me of the first time I read Neuromancer. That sense of being on the periphery of understanding, reading paragraphs and just getting the jist, the impressionist version of meaning. With time, like stepping back from an impressionist painting, the story resolves into recognizable images.
For this book I needed a lot more time to get the recognizable image and I'm still not sure if I got it right. It was fascinating a ...more
What to say about this mind bender? Reading this reminded me of the first time I read Neuromancer. That sense of being on the periphery of understanding, reading paragraphs and just getting the jist, the impressionist version of meaning. With time, like stepping back from an impressionist painting, the story resolves into recognizable images.
For this book I needed a lot more time to get the recognizable image and I'm still not sure if I got it right. It was fascinating a ...more
Definitely look up the glossary. It can be pretty confusing without it.
May 14, 2012
V.
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
science-fiction,
hard-scifi
