Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs)

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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs)

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Pros

Philip k. Morgan’s dystopian world has ageless core elements of humanity and virtues we are familiar with. Morgan mixed equal parts of the lee child's jack reacher books and raymond chandler's the big sleep.

Takeshi kovacs is an antihero like none other. Kovacs isn't bogged down by hollywood trope that were unfortunately strung together to his show counterpart.

The worldbuilding is fantastic and immersive, as cyberpunk should be. Most of the big technology comes from a dead alien race (dead in that we haven't seen them alive) and feels tacked on or just off. Otherwise it's a great scratch for anyone who has ... Read More

Cons

The novel altered carbon is a huge letdown, so much so that i won't even watch it on netflix.

Takeshi kovacs often tries to discredit me by means of flagrant misquotations. This is a 500 page book that's 200 pages too long. The author employs childish similes every few lines, to add descriptive bulk.

There is just a lot of technobabble that is not explored. There is no exploration of the real possibilities that a millenia-deep incarnational theology might offer a more human way forward.

Pornographic violence. Pornographic sexualized violence. It's * and clumsily written at that. The * scenes read like he plagiarized a * forum.

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Quality

Altered carbon is a slambam story set hundreds of years in the future that combines searing action newworld tech savage violenc... Read More

In the almost 20 years since the release of the book some technologies have started to go in different directions than the auth... Read More

They are already toying with the idea and guess what

I dont like spaceopera with the galaxy stuffed with friendly aliens type of book and minimal science

Price

Kovacs is contracted to a rich person who has lived over 300 years

Takeshi is a protagonist antihero like none other

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This product had a total of 13,854 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 6 2023.