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Rule 34
by Charles Stross
This book was fine to listen to as I exercised. At first, the narration was a little tough to follow for me because of the Scottish accent. However, the narrator Robert Ian Mackenzie has a compelling voice, so I'd keep working out and just try to focus a bit more. Mackenzie gives distinct voices to the three main characters along with several of the other minor characters, and I think it was his narration that kept me engaged in this book.
The narration rotates from Liz the police officer whose career has stopped short to Anwar the hacker who is trying to go straight to the Toymaker who is an entertaining sociopath running around with a chip in his head. I did enjoy trying to figure out the details of how these three could be connected. The world is familiar enough with speculative elements and pieces that gave me reason to pause, particularly about the future of police investigations.
While I found this book adequate, I don't think I'd recommend it. It took me just over a month to listen to the 13 hours and 39 minutes in this audiobook. If I forgot my iPod on some days, I wasn't really upset. I did make a conscious choice to finish the last two hours in one listening session. Even still, the resolution was not that shocking. The Toymaker was by far the most entertaining character for me, and I loved hearing his rants. Unfortunately, this book did not grip me the way that I thought it would. Internet thriller? Meh.
The narration rotates from Liz the police officer whose career has stopped short to Anwar the hacker who is trying to go straight to the Toymaker who is an entertaining sociopath running around with a chip in his head. I did enjoy trying to figure out the details of how these three could be connected. The world is familiar enough with speculative elements and pieces that gave me reason to pause, particularly about the future of police investigations.
While I found this book adequate, I don't think I'd recommend it. It took me just over a month to listen to the 13 hours and 39 minutes in this audiobook. If I forgot my iPod on some days, I wasn't really upset. I did make a conscious choice to finish the last two hours in one listening session. Even still, the resolution was not that shocking. The Toymaker was by far the most entertaining character for me, and I loved hearing his rants. Unfortunately, this book did not grip me the way that I thought it would. Internet thriller? Meh.