In the future no one will want to pay taxes to support the government. Everyone will want all services to be privatized, and they will wear corporate logos to show their brand loyalty. In the future everyone will be a consumer and everything will be a product. In the future there will be artifici...
Bland. The characters were bland, the action was bland, the story was bland. This is a dystopian story about the over corporatization of the world. Of course the corporate world was made a villian as well as the NRA. There was also the cheering for big government that fuels the Left's world.
I found this book very enjoyable, just the right sort of book for me, scarcastic, witty and slightly futuristic. As J D Robb's future shows some hope, this is the future of the corporations with all the power, a situation I can see happening. Nike have a clever marketing plan done by one of their e...
This book had been on my wishlist for a while...so long, in fact, that I had forgotten why I put it on there and what it was about.The little blurb on the cover said it is a cross between Catch-22 and The Matrix. I would say it absolutely had elements of the absurdist satirical humor of Catch-22, t...
I really enjoyed some of the ideas in this book-- particularly the corporate surnames-- but the story was mostly flat and unengaging. None of the characters were particularly interesting or memorable.
4.5/5Max Barry is an evil genius!it's no secret that I love satire (Beauty Queens, anyone?), and this is creme de la creme of it. I absolutely loved it, and this book gave me chills.The writing is insane, sharp, snarky and gripping. There is a very important story behind all the insanity, and it's w...
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