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The Quantum Thief
by Hannu Rajaniemi
This is an imperfect book, and there were probably bits in the middle where I might have given up, if I gave up on books more often. I'm glad I didn't.
My basic gripe with this book was that there was just too much going on for a (nowadays) relatively short 330 pages--I'm rarely want to want books to be longer, but this time I think it would have helped. Or maybe Rajaniemi could have made things a little clear. It didn't help that things/groups like Zoku, Quiet, Cryptarchs, phoboi, tzaddikim, and gogol pirates get brought up with too little description, at least for the jumble of ideas to crystalize in my head.
It all came together at the twist--it wasn't until then that some of those groups became fully explained, I think the other may have been holding back some explanation just for the twist.
The other, minor, thing that bugged me was that I didn't feel the world was fully flushed out. Maybe the author had it pictured in his mind, but it was fragmented in mine--maybe because of the issue above, maybe for other reasons.
But I did ultimately like this, I like the way that memory was finally discussed and undermined in the end (though the memory tech seemed underexamined, unquestioned, until then). The end also made sense of the plot which had, unfortunately, suffered the same kind of unclarity through the first half of the book. (What were Mieli and the thief after? I just found it easy to get lost in this book; a reread would do wonders for my appreciation, though I'm not planning it immediately)
My basic gripe with this book was that there was just too much going on for a (nowadays) relatively short 330 pages--I'm rarely want to want books to be longer, but this time I think it would have helped. Or maybe Rajaniemi could have made things a little clear. It didn't help that things/groups like Zoku, Quiet, Cryptarchs, phoboi, tzaddikim, and gogol pirates get brought up with too little description, at least for the jumble of ideas to crystalize in my head.
It all came together at the twist--it wasn't until then that some of those groups became fully explained, I think the other may have been holding back some explanation just for the twist.
The other, minor, thing that bugged me was that I didn't feel the world was fully flushed out. Maybe the author had it pictured in his mind, but it was fragmented in mine--maybe because of the issue above, maybe for other reasons.
But I did ultimately like this, I like the way that memory was finally discussed and undermined in the end (though the memory tech seemed underexamined, unquestioned, until then). The end also made sense of the plot which had, unfortunately, suffered the same kind of unclarity through the first half of the book. (What were Mieli and the thief after? I just found it easy to get lost in this book; a reread would do wonders for my appreciation, though I'm not planning it immediately)