Walkaway

I wanted to like this book: An exploration of utopian societies, the singularity, reincarnation via simulation, AI, the ingenuity of people; even stickin' it to The Man . . . It had the makings of a great novel but ended up being bogged down by its own ideology, overly clever slang and jargon that makes it almost impenetrable (and I am a techno-dork!), and characters archetypes that were far FAR too stereotypical and impossible to truly identify with. It didn't help that all the characters went by nicknames that obliterated their individuality. All of them. It made them semi-anonymous and difficult to envision.

This book is just too much of too much. I wanted to DNF it, but . . . I don't DNF books. I pushed through. An aggressive editor who knew how to say “No” probably could have saved it from itself.

Ugh. Again, I really wanted to like this book and it pains me to write this review. It's a book signed by the author no less. A guy I greatly admire and follow like a fanboy. Alas, this is not a book I can recommend. Sorry, Cory.

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Hey! In reading the reviews, there are people who seem to like it. So, the audience is out there. That audience simply doesn't include me. :(