this book = his dark materials + origin of the species + the sum of all fears. although it is less enjoyable than any of those books. I’m not sure why the characters went on their journey, where the nuke came from, or what the point of the whole book really was.
Enough to convince me that finance is not a great career path.
2.5 stars. Nothing but boardroom drama, kinda like watching an episode of gossip girl, which I suppose isn’t all bad. Although the recounts of Facebook’s acquisition attempts and scuffs over Twitter’s contact importer were definitely enough to make the book worth reading.
Started out quite good, ended up a jumbled, mildly racist mess.
It’s like reading wikipedia in fictional form, which is what I was doing for Song of Ice and Fire anyways.
Lots of hand waving and overuse of the word ‘increasingly’. The facts are scattershot trivia, nothing unified or edifying here. I’m out.
Not sure how to rate this book. It wasn’t fun to read. It starts with a deaf child being molested by her father and rarely gets more cheery. I teared up reading some of the passages, and put down the book multiple times because I just couldn’t handle it. The scope is massive, and the book is the opposite of focused. However, this is the first book I can think of that probably made me a better person. It helped me relate to people that I would otherwise dismiss and gives a broader vantage for those of us who grew up normal. ...
Wow. Some great twists, an appealing narrative structure, and a realistic antagonist. Great scifi.
Biased? Probably. Interesting? Yes. Lots of cool info about the intersection of tech and retail.
The robotic obsession with references to 80’s pop culture was tiresome, and the world itself seemed devoid of forward looking creativity. I didn’t find the antagonists believable, thought the egghunt was dumb, and disliked every protagonist except Shoto and Daito. The VR facets of the plot were engaging, and I’m always down for a book about video games. But really, am I the only one that thinks watching Monty Python and the Holy grail 153 times is not something to admire?