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adr_enne_rose 's review for:
The Quantum Thief
by Hannu Rajaniemi
I just gotta say - this book out-fictioned it's science. When you're constantly wishing there were a dictionary in the back, there's a problem. There are so many made-up words in this book that are only in context with each other, instead of in context with plain English, that I just gave up trying to figure out what the F concepts they were trying to convey and muddled through without them.
I got through it, but I feel like I missed half of what it was trying to say, because the author was trying harder to use interesting concepts of modern technology than he was trying to make them /understandable/ concepts. And this is coming from a child of the '70s who cut her teeth on sci-fi, was at UCSC when it first connected to UCB and GA Tech, and prefers vi to emacs.
The book had so much potential. I can smell it, but I can't see it. Let's be honest - "grok" is now common vernacular because it was conveyed effectively. "gevulot" will never reach that height.
I got through it, but I feel like I missed half of what it was trying to say, because the author was trying harder to use interesting concepts of modern technology than he was trying to make them /understandable/ concepts. And this is coming from a child of the '70s who cut her teeth on sci-fi, was at UCSC when it first connected to UCB and GA Tech, and prefers vi to emacs.
The book had so much potential. I can smell it, but I can't see it. Let's be honest - "grok" is now common vernacular because it was conveyed effectively. "gevulot" will never reach that height.