Daniel

Too Short

Revisado: 06-19-19

I feel like the disclaimer took up 1/8 of the book. It was disappointing for the disclaimer to essentially say that nothing can be substantiated in the book and then the book itself was so short.

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Same stuff as his original book.

Revisado: 02-11-19

Great concepts, and well developed material. However if you’ve read his original book, there is no significant departure from it here.

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So well written, but easy to get lost

Revisado: 04-26-18

The author’s style is to meander to a mind blowing point. In which case it’s often tough to hang in there for the payoff. I only got through this because it was an audio book.

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Great Perspective, A Little Meandering

Revisado: 09-24-17

If you are a person who enjoys stepping into a character’s life and journeying with them through the mundane to hear their thoughts and insecurities about it all, then this is the book for you.

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Good Idea, Not Artfully Done

Revisado: 09-21-17

The concept of the book is very interesting. However, the writing is at times cringe-worthy. I found myself rolling my eyes at other times. The story is interesting enough but it seems a little formulaic in a thriller/mystery way. It's the comfort food of science and action writing.

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Great take on self help!

Revisado: 01-03-17

This book is a narrative that unfolds the principles of self help. It's very well done. Worth getting if you're at all interested.

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Best Fiction I've read to date

Revisado: 11-17-16

This book really captures the internal world in the way we all wished fantasy and fairytales affected us as children. Characters are deep and well developed. The writing is excellent. Don't pass on this one.

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Mediocre story, undifferentiated narrator

Revisado: 06-15-16

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I received this book free in exchange for a review through audioblast. I've had my eye on this book for some time because of my enduring interest in comics. I had high hopes that this would be a book that showed the development of a supervillain character. I was looking forward to a book in the vein of Grossman's 2007 "Soon I Will Be Invincible".Unfortunately, the constant tawdry humor made the scenes that would deepen the character's context hard to engage in (for humor with development, see by David Wong's 2015, "Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits"). Furthermore, the world seemed a little underdeveloped, it was easy enough to get the idea for a society that embraces super-powered factions of good and evil, but I would have been interested in understanding more the structure of that society. This book may have been a fair read, but the narrator did not come through well. The main character is in constant dialogue with his telepathic cloak. However, the voices are so indistinguishable, I constantly had to pause and mentally review what was said and to who that would fit. Moreover, there is a Mexican character that is played so flat, that until it was explicitly stated I would never have conceived that he was Mexican, despite his name being "Diablo."This was a very good start in the effort. Perhaps his other books in the series are more developed. That said, if I had purchased this book, I would have asked for my money back.

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Good story, but could stand to be longer.

Revisado: 01-21-16

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I received this book for free from Audiobook Blast in exchange for an honest review of it, and while I don't know the context of this prequel from the latter books, I'd like to think it helped me to have fresh eyes for it. This book addressed the issues that would arise from robots being integrated into society, specifically from the perspective of the police. I thought there was a missed opportunity by avoiding considering the tension of some of the abuse of power that occurs in the office policemen hold, and putting that into contrast with robots' residing within set parameters. Perhaps this is addressed more in one of the later books. There were some deep undertones regarding human nature in this book, and I found it very thought-provoking for this reason. I valued the author's development of characters in the short time that he had. That said, I felt the book was too short. I thought it was a good story; however, I would weigh value of a good story and it's length to it's price.

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Solidified his place as favorite author.

Revisado: 02-01-15

This is a fantastic story read by a fantastic narrator. Check out the rest of the series. They didn't get this narrator until book 2 though. Still great series.

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