September Books 18) The Golden Transcendence

[nwhyte]

18) The Golden TranscendenceSorry, but I've got a hundred pages into it and I'm giving up. The unlikeable protagonist is locked in mental battle with his adversary using various nanotech and other superpowers, and I suddenly realised I didn't really care which of them won (indeed, as Ian Hislop said about the Mohamed al-Fayed vs Neil Hamilton libel

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[frumiousb]

I had a similar reaction to the first novel in his series. I'm going to give one more book by him a try, and then give it up for bad business if I don't like it better.

[mylescorcoran]

I read and quite enjoyed the first in the trilogy, read and only half-enjoyed the second, and have decided not to bother hunting up the third.

It doesn't help that I've subsequently been exposed to the author's odd net presence. As you say there are loads more books I want to read more, and I don't even have a fifth of your reading speed.

[brightglance]

I've gone off this author for different reasons, as mentioned here.

[andrewducker]

Well, you've saved yourself from despising the ending :->

[nwhyte]

That bad, is it?

*SPOILERS AHOY*

[andrewducker]

Assuming that nobody is going to read this far without having either read it, or given up