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Synners
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Author: Pat Cadigan
List Price: $13.95
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ISBN: 1568581858
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows (09 September, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 173,749
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
a 400+ page waste of time
This book is awful. The writing is bad, the plot is thin, the characters are underdeveloped. Synners had potential, but ruined it with pages and pages of dream-type sequences and unexplained ramblings. There were so many characters that it was ridiculous to keep track of them all. Important events were skipped over and not explained at all, substituted with phrases resembling "a few days later...everything was fine." I do not recommend this book.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Maybe it was just me...
Well, it looks like I am a minority here. Yes, that's right, I really didn't enjoy this book. To be honest with you, I only got to the page 200. I consider myself a sci-fi fan. I've read (and loved) all Stephenson's books, Philip K. Dick, Nylund, Bruce Sterling, and many others. There are very few authors that I don't like, and thinking about it, that was my mistake. A lot of people compare Cadigan with Gibson, and Neuromancer was one book that I really couldn't get through.The problem with Synners in my opinion is that it tries to do too much at the same time. Timeline is confusing, the characters are introduced a dozen at a time, and after 200 pages there was a lot of descriptions about not so important situations and very little was told about the plot and how the different threads related to each other. Characters are very poorly developed. Visual Mark, who is supposed to be important, has no clear identity, and other characters that could be interesting, like the boy who could read and learnt Chinese, are just forgotten. There are a few cool ideas in this book. The brain sockets and the whole idea about hi-tech music industry are interesting concepts, but they are just not enough when compared to the silly ideas like the nonsense hit and run, the exaggerated drug apologies and things like that man with the 'graphic changing' cape, etc. Bottom line, I wouldn't recommend this book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
A world not too far removed from present times
The line between technology and humans is very slim in a future where an online hardcore of individuals who live in a virtual world invite individuals to change. Anticipate complexity, depth, and a world not too far removed from present times, where a future society becomes hooked on technology, even for its identity.
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