Nick O'doherty answers “I just finished watching the whole season...”

Cäts_ Art asked this question about Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1):

I just finished watching the whole season 1 and was wondering if the book is just as good?...

Nick O'doherty I haven't seen the show so my comments are not so relevant, and my enjoyment of the book may be related to my reading approach. I agree that there are…moreI haven't seen the show so my comments are not so relevant, and my enjoyment of the book may be related to my reading approach. I agree that there are aspects of the book that are problematic. It seems to assume knowledge and specific vocabulary at the beginning that does not become clear until much later. This may be deliberate to create a sense of confusion, or the author may have written or rewritten the first bits later. If not deliberate maybe it's just bad editing.

The plot is convoluted, but having recently been reading Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series the plot isn't really much more complicated than a classic 'who dunnit' , it seems so because the SF element means that there are classical anchors that no longer apply: an alibi fixing you in one place doesn't mean you couldn't be elsewhere; being killed is a temporary inconvenience with no trauma attached (if you are rich).

My reading approach is that my first read is fast and I miss things but I just devour the storyline. If I enjoyed the book I read it again, sometimes within days. So the the bits I found confusing and disorientating the first time are not usually an issue the second.

I really enjoyed the book. I'd place it alongside Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlow series for atmosphere and thriller story telling. But the existential and moral issues of consciousness transfer add to both the thrilling and the black atmosphere aspects

I would like to see the series now. Is it on Netflix or Amazon or something else?(less)

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Quinn It's on Netflix :) ...more
Aug 03, 2018 01:30AM · flag

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