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KILLING
TIME (2000) |
Sub-category: Near future,
Earth
The plot: In 2023m the
Internet has completely wrapped the world up in a web of deception,
lies and falsehoods. With so much information, how can the
human race have the time to sort what is fact from fiction?
Into this chaos, a friend gives Dr Gideon Wolfe a disk with
some pictures on it that her husband was working on just before
his untimely death. Wolfe suddenly finds himself at the mercy
of a small group of indivuals with state of the art technology,
working to rid the world of falsehoods - by creating ever
increasing deceptions which are meant to be recognised for
the deceptions they are...
Comment: Well, the copy
on the back of the book was good, the cover of the Australian
edition of the book was eye-catching and I even managed to
read a decent review of this book. So, I was less than enthralled
to find this book SUCKED! Carr superficially dances across
the surface of technology, creating less and less believable
plot twists with nary a foundation of science as the story
unfolds. To compound this, he may have been writing to achieve
the 'simplistic' style of narration practiced by
Michael
Crichton for example, but has only succeeded in writing
a novel that reads like a teenage boy thriller - and a lousy
one at that! Don't be sucked in by the snazzy cover and cioy
of this book - it isn't worth it.
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