Status Updates From All That We See or Seem

Pausing... may DNF

Está siendo un patada entre las piernas, esa es la verdad.

Oh yes, the story has picked up!

The story is starting to pick up? 🤔🤷‍♀️

Just getting into this new story. So far the writing style is proving to be quite a different reading feel than my previous book, Slow Gods.

It sucks lol

Really interesting!

Green energy is just a conspiracy to preserve all the fossil fuels underground so they can be used to reanimate a dinosaur army.

Ever have a time when an author kills off a character and you’re like, really?! 🤔

“The Americans talked a lot about ideals, but their morals were as flexible as anyone else’s.”

No lies detected

"It was all just bots talking to datajinns talking to deepfakes talking to digisapiens. He had read somewhere that 99 percent of the traffic on the web these days was between AIs."

This sounds omious, but I can totally see how this is the destination we're hurling towards.

This one is taking me a bit to get into, but I want to finish it...

“However, because we have chosen, as a society, to make artists dependent upon the market, we’ve also always believed—implicitly or otherwise—in an equivalence between what is artistically worthy and what fetches the highest price.”

“Elli and I are kindred souls, you know?

That’s why we dreamed together.

In the same way that she saw me for who I really was as she guided me through my truest fantasies, I saw her for who she really was: a butterfly trapped by the web of this world’s little minds.”

This stan POV is the ultimate ick

“But in that dream with Elli… he felt seen. What a cliché that was, but that was precisely how he felt. In the darkness of that theater, on the verge of sleep and wakefulness, she had made him see that he was the hero of a story, a grand epic that was so much more interesting than any story others could have told about him. He could see that she understood him, saw the grandness of his soul.”

The villain is a STAN??

“Immigrants, especially immigrants like her, weren’t supposed to criticize America—they were supposed to be docile, to fit in, to be grateful. If they were to be political at all, they should reserve their censure for the lands they had departed so that they could confirm the very American opinion that America is the greatest land on earth. But her mother had a different view....”

Pretty good. Though a bit of the plot line is a bit on the nerdy side needing clarification towards the end. Now all that’s needed is for this to be made into a movie!

literalmente es un thriller de watch dogs

bueeno,., tiene reflexioones guays pero a ver como avanza

Damn it. I forget he’s willing to do that.

interesante

Not loving the audiobook reader, but whatever, I’ll stick with it.

Not the best start to a book. Finding it too technical but I can see what the plot is

this is very cinematic which is both a good thing and a bad thing. i like how intense the action is even if it's slightly at the expense of story depth. it would (will?) make a really bitchin movie.

the thrills in this thriller are thrilling. i'm on fucking tenterhooks lmao.

Kinda like Neuromancer for idiots.

I like it.

🤔🤣

i wish all audiobook narrators a very PLEASE LOOK UP HOW TO PRONOUNCE NAMES OF TOWNS IN NEW ENGLAND BEFORE YOU SAY THEM OUT LOUD lmfao.

brb planning my trips to "meth-when" MA and "grow-ton" CT lolololololol

an incredibly inventive an engaging “near-future” thriller

We love a good treasure hunt

“The best way to show you deserve to be an American,” she said, “is to work at making America live up to her ideals.” this is a really interesting idea. It reminds me of the Catholic Church, how schisming is never the way, but if the Church fails in some respect then simply make the Church live up to her ideals.