[doolally2au]

Damn it, I'm still waiting for my copy of Altered Carbon. My bookseller said there was a delay because is was being reprinted with a different style of cover - less sci-fi and more detective or something stupid like that. He has had to reorder it for me from somewhere else.

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[Abyss]

Finished. Damn good book. Arguably not as brilliantly novel as AC and BA, but still a great read and worth reading if one enjoyed the first two.

I did get a sense of conclusion to it, and I wonder whether there will be any more Kovacs books. Certainly this one was more about his life and personality than the other two Kovacs stories.

I'd recommend it as a companion read to the other two - a few fundamental points would be lost in a solo read. Fun tho'.

My favourite bits, SPOILER PROTECTED...

- The whole surfer mentality thing, in a wordl with three moons and unreal tides;

- The deCom culture, and how it tied back to BA

-The final confrontation with the resleeve;

-I was fairly sure Aiura was going to turn out to be a Viadura resleeve, but he skipped the obvious as he often does;

- The ultimate reveal of what the Orbitals do was a great, great twist;

- Abyss, wants a dorsal vented onboard plasma discharge biosystem that works with beer.

[Dagger]

Damn you all. Woken Furies won't show up in the US until September at the latest.

And now, to go totally off topic, I am reading Memories of Ice. Again, not released in the US so I had to get the mass market paperback from Amazon.ca. Sweet mother of God, the thing is huge. 1100 effing pages! I can barely hold it in my hands. What the hades was in Bantam's mind when they chose the font size in this thing?

[stone monkey]

Not particularly impressed with "Market Forces". It reads okay but it doesn't have that je ne sais quoi.

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Lying in the gutter.
Looking at the stars.

[stone monkey]

Sounds interesting. Lets hope it's up to his usual standard.

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"All we have to worry about now are the Rodents of Unusual Size, but I think they're a myth..."

[stone monkey]

'Altered Carbon' is one of the most stunningly nasty books I've read in a very long time. I mean that in a good way. The way it deals with the consequences of functional immortality ie The complete lack of respect and commoditisation (Is that a real word? ) of indivudual life that results. It does what all good SF should do: it takes an idea (quite a few of them, in fact) and takes it to it's logical (and in this case, awful) conclusion.

'Broken Angels', I feel, is a slightly weaker book. To some extent, I think that's because I was slightly prepared for it, having read it's predecessor I had some idea of what to expect from it, and therefore wasn't as shocked at the offhanded cruelty and casual diregard for life displayed by the protagonists. What did surprise me was the change of focus. Morgan has, rather sneakily IMO, expanded his universe whilst distracting the reader with a decent story. He's definately one to watch.

A note for you bibliophiles: 1st print hardbacks of 'Altered Carbon' have been, according to a book dealer friend of mine, rocketing in value. I was told the same thing about Peter Hamilton's 'The Reality Disfunction', so I expect it's just a flash-in-the-pan/fashion thing.

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[Mort]

Market Forces comes out in March.

Just finished Broken Angels. The title perhaps refers to an aspect that is a little bit of a twist.

I enjoyed it, but nowhere near as much as I enjoyed Altered Carbon - but then again I dig hard-boiled more than I dig military fiction.

Kovacs is a brilliant character - and the dialogue had me chuckling some very dark humours

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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

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[drinksinbars]

i really enjoyed the ending, i thought the whole book was much more complete character wise than the others dealing specifcally with takeshi's motivations, i felt the ending brought him full circle in some ways and left the character deeper and more rounded for it while not taking aways his psychosis.

plus we finally met VV, which made the book for me

[Fist Gamet]

Has there really not been a single post in here for 4 years?!?!?!

[Abyss]

Fist Gamet, on 08 September 2009 - 03:59 PM, said:

Has there really not been a single post in here for 4 years?!?!?!

This particular thread was one i dug up from the bottom of the Other Lit forum when i made the RM subforum. There are many other more recent posts in other threads discussing the Kovacs books, but they were scattered.

So...

Anyone reread the Kovacs books lately?



- Abyss, was sad that Jimi Hendrix only appeared in the first one.

[Fist Gamet]

No, but I plan to in the next year or so. It's been a while since I read AC but I loved it.

Cheers, Abyss.

- Gamet, stealing nuances.