September Books 7) The Terminal Experiment

[nwhyte]

7) The Terminal Experiment, by Robert J. Sawyer

This is not quite as bad a book as I had been led to believe. The prose is often leaden - in particular, the cringe-worthy opening passage which I think should be used as a model of how not to write in classes for impressionable young writers, and the numerous info-dumps idicating that the characters

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[torquemad]

If there is one book I regret I've ever read, it's this one. It boosted my already big death phobia so much I had a couple months of overwhelming anxiety, and I suspect some effects still linger on, despite of years passed after I read it. :-\

[blue_condition]

> OK, only Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin to go...

Ooooh, you're saving up some real punishment for yourself. A late-sixties take on the Heinlein juvenile, but it reads like it's been translated badly from some strange foreign language. It feels (at least to me) like it was written in the forties and then "updated" to make the cardboard-cutout culture in it more "modern".

Must've been a seriously duff year!

[sammymorse]

The only thing I remember about Neuromancer is that it starts with a teenager having a tug in clean sheets. Or was that Mona Lisa Overdrive? Nah, can't remember.

[blue_condition]

It wasn't Neuromancer, and I don't think it was MLO because MLO was the one that started with $generic_proponent getting blown up.

I still couldn't tell you how the plot strands in MLO fitted together and I've read it several times.

[blue_condition]

Actually you may be right. What I'm thinking of as MLO was Count Zero. ;P