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A carregar... The Departurepor Neal Asher
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I'm in two minds over this book. I might continue the series or might not. There are other much more enjoyable books out there to read. The violence, blood and gore in this book first shocked me, then after a while I became so desensitized to it that it almost became funny, and I find that scary. There were no characters to like, no character development, so for somebody who likes to invest in a character, I found it difficult to turn the pages and to finish the book because there was not one character I cared about. He could have killed off almost everyone in the book (which he almost did), and I would have been fine with it. I found it very difficult to visualize all the tech stuff, maybe there were too many things described. It took really long to read this book. The political pieces were interesting and even relevant if you look at today's political views. However, it might have been the only thing I've enjoyed in this book. Maybe the follow up books will get better concerning the characters and their development, but I'm not sure if I will continue to find out whether it is so or not. Another fantastic series opener from Asher. I am just a third through this first book in the series, and I can tell that I will really enjoy the full series. Lots of action, lots of future speculation, lots of high-end technology gone rogue. It is actually pretty scary, as I can see where the nasty future depicted could very well happen. Asher poses philosophical questions to stimulate the reader's interest beyond the story/plot itself. Can't put this one down. I am already ordering the next two books in the series. I also thoroughly enjoy his Ian Cormac books and I will be diving into the Rise of the Jain series as well. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Visible in the night sky the Argus Station, its twin smelting plants like glowing eyes, looks down on nightmare Earth. From Argus the Committee keep an oppressive control: citizens are watched by cams systems and political officers, it's a world inhabited by shepherds, reader guns, razor birds and the brutal Inspectorate with its white tiled cells and pain inducers. Soon the Committee will have the power to edit human minds, but not yet, twelve billion human being need to die before Earth can be stabilized, but by turning large portions of Earth into concentration camps this is achievable, especially when the Argus satellite laser network comes fully online . . . This is the world Alan Saul wakes to in his crate on the conveyor to the Calais incinerator. How he got there he does not know, but he does remember the pain and the face of his interrogator. Informed by Janus, through the hardware implanted in his skull, about the world as it is now Saul is determined to destroy it, just as soon as he has found out who he was, and killed his interrogator . . . Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The worldbuilding was really cool and the impacts of overpopulation on how life works are all too believable, but overall it was just okay. Some things felt like they were too convenient and I didn't care all that much about most of the characters. I know this is the start of a series though and the ending was interesting so I might give it another chance and pick up the next book. ( )