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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
There is a good book hidden in there, but the visible lack of an editor made it almost impossible to find this book. Did I remember right that Manhattan emerges from the Pacific Ocean? The timeline is confused just as some technical details. The concept is interesting and it helped me to decide to visit Bristol soon.
This book wasn't for me. It's not a book I would have usually picked up and I definitely wouldn't have persevered with it, had it not been a book club read. I'm also unsure whether my listening to this book on audio and its uninspiring narration affected my enjoyment of this story. I was bored, kids.
It wasn't like this was a terrible premise - an examination of the loss of the internet and its affect on society - but I didn't care about the characters and some of their narrative strands didn't add much to the overall story.
Some people are calling this a future SF classic... a natural successor to 1984 in classrooms. There are interesting elements here, to do with internet reliance and with marketing and purchase tracking in order to fulfill need and drive sales, shown by a loyalty points system devised by councils for recycling of cans. These are sent directly to the purchaser, whilst tracking when that person became thirsty, when and where they bought the drink and then when are where they recycled it. You can see how we ended up in the apocalyptic situation that the 'After' chapters present, as we are confronted with before and after for characters throughout. I just didn't really engage with it and didn't care, as a result.
I'm sure many out there will disagree with me, but well-crafted characters, plot or language (any one of the three) might have saved this book for me and - as far as I'm concerned - it didn't have any of these to commend it. Swing and a miss.
It wasn't like this was a terrible premise - an examination of the loss of the internet and its affect on society - but I didn't care about the characters and some of their narrative strands didn't add much to the overall story.
Some people are calling this a future SF classic... a natural successor to 1984 in classrooms. There are interesting elements here, to do with internet reliance and with marketing and purchase tracking in order to fulfill need and drive sales, shown by a loyalty points system devised by councils for recycling of cans. These are sent directly to the purchaser, whilst tracking when that person became thirsty, when and where they bought the drink and then when are where they recycled it. You can see how we ended up in the apocalyptic situation that the 'After' chapters present, as we are confronted with before and after for characters throughout. I just didn't really engage with it and didn't care, as a result.
I'm sure many out there will disagree with me, but well-crafted characters, plot or language (any one of the three) might have saved this book for me and - as far as I'm concerned - it didn't have any of these to commend it. Swing and a miss.