Michael Brookes (1)
Auteur de The Cult of Me (The Third Path)
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Michael Brookes, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de Michael Brookes
An Odder Quintet 2 exemplaires
The 10 second War 1 exemplaire
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- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieux de résidence
- England, UK
- Professions
- game producer
- Courte biographie
- Michael Brookes is an Executive Producer with a leading UK games developer. Working in games and writing are two of his life passions and he considers himself fortunate to be able to indulge them both. He lives in the east of England, enjoying starry skies in the flattest part of the country. When not working or writing he can sometimes be found sleeping. Which is good as that is where many good ideas come from.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 64
- Popularité
- #264,968
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 12
- ISBN
- 8
The character developments in this novel are phenomenal; starting with the ‘birth’ of the entity mentioned in the book synopsis above, each of the characters we are introduced too, for however briefly they remain in play, are given depth and traits that draw the reader in and make them want to keep reading. The female protagonist is likeable and easily connected to; we see her written in such a manner that her addiction to her work at the cost of her private life is all too painfully familiar. We are allowed, through the words of the Author to see her strengths, tenacity and weaknesses; and weakness of the characters is a large part of what this novel is. Not just the low-end of society, the criminals and those of low intelligence, but the high society people and all points in-between. Each of the characters has their innermost wishes exposed to the reader in an impeccable and flawless manner, making this so much more than a good cyber-mystery, it becomes an almost voyeuristic look, through the characters eyes, into a society that is quickly becoming fuelled by a ‘something for nothing’ mentality. Despite some of the novels ‘players’ only being on centre stage for a few pages, their personality and reasoning are exposed for all to see and even when they are no longer a focal point, they are linked seamlessly with the others. Each of the characters featured throughout the book are unique in their own way regardless of age and, it is this that makes the actions of the entity seem just that little bit more treacherous.
A lot of the storyline for this book is centred on computers and the computer world, bringing to the fore our increasing dependence on these machines. In parts this book made me shudder at the thought of how easily even the most secure networks could be breached, and are we really that far away from the future depicted in ‘I, Robot’ by Isaac Asimov or even the SkyNet system we see in the ‘Terminator’ movies. However, do not pass this novel by if you are ‘into’ computers, regardless of whether you only use them for work or are a full-blown professional computer programmer, or hacker, this book is easily digestible and believable.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes mystery, sci-fi and even horror genres, however due to a certain section of the book; I would not recommend it to anyone under a college age reading comprehension.
Originally reviewed on: http://catesbooknuthut.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/review-faust-2-0-morton-mitchell...
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