by Richard K. Morgan
Abandoned circa p100: This kind of bloated, exposition-heavy, constantly shifting viewpoint, modern idiom seems to increasingly annoy me.
bookshelves: sci-fi, one-penny-wonder, tbr-busting-2014, hardback, summer-2014, published-2007, washyourmouthout-language, fraudio, paper-read, testost-tosh, abandoned Read from March 07, 2009 to July 31, 2014 Home read. Hard Cover 546 pages AND the audio file.Description: Marsalis is one of a n...
Carl Marsalis seems like a lucky man. Thirty-odd years ago the US and UK created genetically modified soldiers, called "Thirteens", but when public horror shut the project down, the Thirteens were put into camps or shipped off to Mars. Carl is one of the few permitted to roam free--on the condition ...
So its been a long time since something of this genre took my attention. Ok something recently published.It was overall a great story. Loved the characters, even the "bad" guys. It turned out to be a great novel on politics (not in your face), sci-fi (love genetically modified things), there was eve...
Very solid sci-fi thriller. Lots of ideas and strong characters to equal the action-packed plot.
2 stars for me, despite what I admit is some good writing in places. The premise of this book is that we have killed off all the disruptive, aggressive “hunters” in society since we invented agriculture and became civilized. The “thirteens” are the results of the effort to reinvigorate our gene pool...
Genre: scifi / cyberpunkBrainycat's 5 'B's:boobs: 4 // blood 4 // bombs 2 // bondage 1 // blasphemy 4Currently listening to: Alien Vampires: Harshlizer CD2Richard K. Morgan has again established himself as one of my very mostest all time favorite authors. As a reader, I've often gone through endless...
Probably a bit rape-y for a book club selection.
Home read. Hard Cover 546 pages.First Sentence: He finally found Gray in a MarsPrep camp just over the Bolivian border and into Peru, hiding behind some cheap facial surgery and the name Rodriguez Now if the story unfolds along the same lines of this brilliant first sentence I will have a damn fine ...