Fiction
In reply to the discussion: What Fiction are you reading this week, May 20, 2018? [View all]pscot
(21,044 posts)In a body swapping future a private detective is hired out of storage to investigate the murder/suicide of of a 375 year old meth (Methuselah) who is also the victim reincarnated. The writing is good. The sex and violence aren't egregiously gratuitous and the plot moves right along. I also started The Hellfire Club by Jake Tapper and Nexus by Ramez Naam. I'll probably finish Nexus but I haven't committed yet to Tapper's book. The writing seems a tad labored. I was expecting something closer to our current politics and I don't know if I can digest another Kennedy era expose/thriller. I've also been reading Everybody Lies by Seth Stephen-Davidowitz which is about the uses and abuses of Big Data (Google?). The ideas are interesting but the presentation tries too hard for user friendly and seems rather scattered and anecdotal. The title is a marketing device.
Cheers, Hermetic.
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