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A review by whybeereads
One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith
2.0
A fun cyber noir about a criminal conspiracy and the illegal trade of memories that kicks off when our protagonist unwittingly downloads the memory of a murder into his mind. The world is peppered with fun details of a science fiction future Los Angeles where sentient appliances roam the streets and you can speed through the streets of the internet in a digital sports car. We follow Hap as he tracks down the murderess who has dumped the memory on him and keeps the LAPD off his trail in the process, and we find ourselves glued to the page as he uncovers just how deep the conspiracy goes.
And THEN, about 2/3 of the way through, the author seemingly swan dives into a bathtub full of cocaine and shrooms and the book devolves into the hottest of messes, starting with alien abductions, and SOMEHOW, ending up with God (big G God, the Alpha and Omega Himself). I cannot express how much this just DOES NOT WORK. It doesn't even feel like the same book, it's like watching a movie on TV and instead of cutting to commercial break it just cuts to some college-aged stoner bro at a frat party trying to impress girls with mumbo jumbo he was only half paying attention to in his introduction to philosophy class that he'll barely manage to scrape a 'c' in after he realizes he actually has to read the assigned literature.
And THEN, about 2/3 of the way through, the author seemingly swan dives into a bathtub full of cocaine and shrooms and the book devolves into the hottest of messes, starting with alien abductions, and SOMEHOW, ending up with God (big G God, the Alpha and Omega Himself). I cannot express how much this just DOES NOT WORK. It doesn't even feel like the same book, it's like watching a movie on TV and instead of cutting to commercial break it just cuts to some college-aged stoner bro at a frat party trying to impress girls with mumbo jumbo he was only half paying attention to in his introduction to philosophy class that he'll barely manage to scrape a 'c' in after he realizes he actually has to read the assigned literature.