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Cash Crash Jubilee
- A Novel
- De: Eli K. P. William
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
A cyber-dystopian thriller unlike any other. In a near-future Tokyo, every action - from blinking to sexual intercourse - is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees. A BodyBank computer system implanted in each citizen records their movements from moment to moment and connects them to the audio-visual overlay of the ImmaNet so that every inch of this cyber-dystopian metropolis crawls with information and shifting cinematic promotainment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book: Fantastic SciFi
- De Andrew Thompson en 07-24-15
- Cash Crash Jubilee
- A Novel
- De: Eli K. P. William
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
Heavy on Purple Prose...
Revisado: 10-04-19
The premise of this book was really interesting and I was excited to delve in. The thought of navigating a life where every action had a price was crazy to imagine and I was looking forward to how that process was laid out. This book paints a very nice picture of a post-cyberpunk world and for being set in Tokyo, the author does well with keeping the reader aware of the location.
However, he seems to love describing everything in extravagant detail, and while I think it is very important to lay a good visual foundation for a world so different from reality, sometimes it was too much. I have the physical copy of this book as well and descriptions of advertisements (advertainments?) often went on for a page and a half, sometimes two. When listening, I found myself zoning out for minutes at a time and missing almost nothing relating to the story. That, or the long descriptions made it difficult to even know what was going on. At first I was thinking that because one of the characters in the book speaks in purple prose, the extension to the general world was intended but I quickly began to doubt that because it just didn't make sense...
Speaking of, thanks to the gratuitous detail, the story doesnt actually kickstart until almost halfway through the book... By the halfway point, only three events of note had happened, and they weren't exactly groundbreaking. They were basically mundane events that offered some characterization, and one significant plot point.
Thankfully, after the turn of the plot, the descriptions got more bearable and the actual story sucked me in. Even so, when Amon had a long moment alone on a walk or something, once he looked up at the sky, I dreaded the next 3 or 4 minutes of non-stop purple prose.
If you can make it through all the "verbose verbiage" the narration was really good and the story IS interesting, if a bit of a slow burn. I will be tuning into the other two books in this trilogy because I really do want to know how everything pans out.
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