The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what happens when a young girl of the poor underclass obtains the device.
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Fun and entertaining. Victorian-ish nanotech. It was sort of like steampunk but with neither steam nor punk. It's also heavy on low-level computer science topics, which have a special place in my heart.
After 2 hours of reading, did not get a sense of a plot. Just world building and some characters engaging in daily routines. There is this guy that robs people, and gets caught. Nothing exceptional about it. Also a young girl and his brother, interacting with the technological aspects of this futuristic world.
The writing is heavy on sci-fi slangs that denotes precisely the kind of book I don´t like to read. If the story is no interesting enough, this detracts me from reading the book.
Read: 10%, 2:00/18:30 hours
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