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This book is written much like Lord of the Flies, the Great Gatsby, and To Kill a Mockingbird, without the finality of story that you get from those books. There is a ton that is supported and lifted, but there is no finality that makes this worth while to read a second time.
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Annie Jacobsen does a great job, for the most part, of describing the work, science, and inventions that DARPA took part in as wars ravaged US service members. Where I think this book doesn't excel is the almost repetitive nature of the descriptions of science and people
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This is the last of the Kovacs book and I am happy that it is over. While this book was entertaining and told a great story, but really just felt like a long whiney book talking about how the girl he loved years ago who went somewhere else was killed based and he wants her back.
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There are some really cool ideas they had and the amount success they had throughout the book is impressive. I mean, it was one of the people in the books above that compromised some of the programs.
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The characters are alright. The main character, Petrova, is my least favorite. Dr. Zhang and Rapscallion (The ships AI Robot) are probably my favorite. They have a sense of straightforwardness that in life I appreciate. He also has a nice comedic element that is pretty typical these days for robots
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While this book does use scientific terms such as the scientific name of different yeast and fungus, the stories used to wrap those hard to understand words are written so well that you don't feel like you are missing anything.
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This is the book that I was so excited to read when it first came out, that I read ahead of where my mom and I stopped. Tre story, the magic, and the characters are just huge in my mind from this point forward.
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The short of this is that this book isn't for everyone. Much like his comedy, these stories can be crass and graphic, but if you keep yourself open-minded, and you don't mind a more language than Captain America has ever heard, then you can find some hysterical stories.
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However, I have since learned that really it is a trilogy with 2 additional books that add more but aren't considered part of the main series. Second, there is a couple year gap between the first book and this which puts them out of being teenagers and somehow that feels better.
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This is a decent book that tells a good story. However, it is nothing crazy. A memoir that doesn't explain anything beyond some almost repetitive statements about how military members deal with combat actions.
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This story is complete with great detail in the story telling without becoming boring. However, the repetition of described actions, "If I have to I will use my mailed fists" gets very old very quick during important scenes.
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I am not 100% sure I remember anything from this book even though I finished it yesterday. It was a lot like SPQR A History of Ancient Rome where it was very academic. I do not think I was really interested until "Chapter" 8.