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Neon Fever Dream
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I love the authenticity of characters' experiences & feelings
I have enjoyed how Eliot's books authentically incorporate various elements of real life within his fiction.
In his first books, I think he quite accurately reflected many aspects of the life, feelings, & ways of a tech startup founder.
In this book, I feel he accurately reflects what Burning Man represents to those that go.
In both cases, he wraps these with good, fun-to-read fictional stories about people, and narratives of their story actions and inner quandaries & development. It's good writing & reading, and I look forward to many more books from him.
One minor nit: Occasionally the inner reflections & references to earlier introspections can go on a bit longer than they ought. This is probably an outgrowth of, and one of the downsides of self-published books. It strikes me that professional editors from publishing houses are likely more at liberty to challenge authors with a red pen, which leads to tighter writing that reduces these kind of carried-on-too-long bits of a book.
However, my emphasis is that this is a *minor* nit. It should not stop one from reading the book.
My rating follows my guidelines listed at http://StartupDJ.com/book-rating-rules
I have enjoyed how Eliot's books authentically incorporate various elements of real life within his fiction.
In his first books, I think he quite accurately reflected many aspects of the life, feelings, & ways of a tech startup founder.
In this book, I feel he accurately reflects what Burning Man represents to those that go.
In both cases, he wraps these with good, fun-to-read fictional stories about people, and narratives of their story actions and inner quandaries & development. It's good writing & reading, and I look forward to many more books from him.
One minor nit: Occasionally the inner reflections & references to earlier introspections can go on a bit longer than they ought. This is probably an outgrowth of, and one of the downsides of self-published books. It strikes me that professional editors from publishing houses are likely more at liberty to challenge authors with a red pen, which leads to tighter writing that reduces these kind of carried-on-too-long bits of a book.
However, my emphasis is that this is a *minor* nit. It should not stop one from reading the book.
My rating follows my guidelines listed at http://StartupDJ.com/book-rating-rules
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September 8, 2016
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September 8, 2016
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September 10, 2016
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