|
|
2.0étoiles sur 5
It could be worse, it could be raining., Déc 29 2003
I just read all the reviews on this book I finished a couple hours ago...interesting. Well, to be honest, I listened to it during a long trip (a great habit to consider for anyone who doesn't do this!) and I presume the story didn't change significantly in translation.The book didn't, in my opinion, "suck". But it wasn't good either. My feeling is that a good book is either character driven or event driven. This book is neither. In fact it's fully unmotivated. Sure, there are characters, and there are events, but you don't much care for either. I don't care about Uplink corporation, and I don't care about those people inside that organization. There is no clear protagonist, though there are several interesting special ops type characters. There is no clear antagonist. Well, I guess there is, but he's not particularly interesting and his motivations are COMPLETELY unclear and not well resolved even in the "riveting climax". (I put that in quotes because I can imagine something to that effect is probably written in all capital letters on the dust jacket). I got this because I made a mistake and thought it was actually WRITTEN by Tom Clancy. A mistake I won't repeat. It was written by a techno-thriller Clancy wannabe and Clancy sold out...again. I didn't give it a single star because it *did* have some interesting bits. Several times my wife and I looked at one another knowingly when a transparent plot point came to light. When we figured out the "mystery" (far too easily done, unfortunately). The main thing that gives it a star above rock bottom is what Adam from WI seemed to dislike most about the book. The word play. This was a pretty bad book that was bogged down by lots and lots of extra wordage. That's not a compliment, but it made for some fun "reading" nonetheless. This author has a talent in his use of vocabulary, and he actually writes good dialog. I'd be willing to bet he'd make a great screen writer. But, at least at this point in his career, he's no novelist.
|
de Tom Clancy
de Tom Clancy
de Tom Clancy
de Tom Clancy
