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The Quantum Thief
by Hannu Rajaniemi
This was brilliant.
It was also very hard to follow. Like, at times, seemingly impossible.
It's great though. You just have to roll with it for a while to let the book explain things to you and hope that things will make sense soon. Not all of them will, but you'll start to understand what you need to understand.
This is a fascinating book, and it's a really neat crime thriller set in a world that is very, very advanced. It has both the mystery of "How will the detective solve this crime?" and "How will the thief pull off this crime?" at the same time while following both the Detective and the Thief, and keeping you just ahead enough of the story to be aware of what is happening.
I was able to get ahead of the story a bit and figured out something that was later revealed and made me think "Well... yeah. That's been clear for a while right?" and maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. The story had become very convoluted by that point.
This book has some really interesting ideas when it comes to what society may be like if people get to a point where there are disposable bodies and the ability to move your mind from one body to another. And it looks at it on a grand scale all at once rather than a single individual, it shows a whole universe and how it shapes lives if you constantly have access to devices that can shape reality around you.
This is just impossible to describe. There's some great stuff in this, but it's not for everyone. It's a really confusing story for a lot of the book. But if you stick with it, it's well worth it. Very good and I want to see where it goes so that maybe I can understand what happened at all in this book that I read.
It was also very hard to follow. Like, at times, seemingly impossible.
It's great though. You just have to roll with it for a while to let the book explain things to you and hope that things will make sense soon. Not all of them will, but you'll start to understand what you need to understand.
This is a fascinating book, and it's a really neat crime thriller set in a world that is very, very advanced. It has both the mystery of "How will the detective solve this crime?" and "How will the thief pull off this crime?" at the same time while following both the Detective and the Thief, and keeping you just ahead enough of the story to be aware of what is happening.
I was able to get ahead of the story a bit and figured out something that was later revealed and made me think "Well... yeah. That's been clear for a while right?" and maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. The story had become very convoluted by that point.
This book has some really interesting ideas when it comes to what society may be like if people get to a point where there are disposable bodies and the ability to move your mind from one body to another. And it looks at it on a grand scale all at once rather than a single individual, it shows a whole universe and how it shapes lives if you constantly have access to devices that can shape reality around you.
This is just impossible to describe. There's some great stuff in this, but it's not for everyone. It's a really confusing story for a lot of the book. But if you stick with it, it's well worth it. Very good and I want to see where it goes so that maybe I can understand what happened at all in this book that I read.