| Ok, I'll bite. No I have not read any other cyberpunk books, but necromancer was recommended to me. Anyway (unlike the implication from ynniv) I had no problem with the metaverse. Here are the issues I can think of at the moment 1. no character development 2. "hiro protagonist" 10/10 on the lame scale 3. no explanation for why delivering pizzas is so important. there is one paragraph that attempts to explain it but fails miserably. 4. the girl only serves as a plot vehicle and does so incredibly poorly 5. hiro's dad and raven's dad were captured together? absurd 6. love of the rat thing for the girl is disney-level goofy 7. the "magic spell" juanita reads at the end is a little too convenient I did like the fighting scenes, though. There was one very good paragraph in the whole book -- the bit about how computers never seem to do the right thing and to get any modicum of productivity out of them the tools one uses must be transparent, meaning the user must have a deep understanding of their tools. That is a pretty deep insight that can be incorporated into daily life. |