After the Revolution

overall, i respect robert for writing this and putting up the whole thing + audiobook + illustrations for free. i'd recommend it if you really like the podcast BTB and robert's sense of humor. i listened to it because i was kind of tired of the other content i was listening to, and this was a welcome break. to be honest, i probbably wouldn't have read the whole thing if i'd tried to read it as it's not the sort of thing that i usually read. i give him a lot of points for making a story that had me listening straight through despite the flaws that i think are present in it.

probably the biggest detractor for me: the incredibly frequent mention and description of hyperbolic drug use was really tiresome.

the second biggest was that i felt like a lot of what was happening was on the nose/over-explained by the book itself.

on the other hand, a big positive was that (ignoring the couple of clichés and repetitions) a lot of the descriptive prose was creative and fresh to me.

not sure if this exists, but if this is really a vision of the US/NA that Robert sees happening, i'd love to hear more detail re: how he thinks it could come about exactly.

i'll probably end up checking out the sequel to know what happens to certain characters, so props there too.