Title: Software manuals are more readable
Product review: Others who have called this jargony and overwrought are dead-on. The result is borderline unreadable, plodding and uninteresting. If the Dune books are the zenith of unravelling a complex knot of economic, cultural and technological relationships in a compelling and interesting way, this book is the nadir.The author needs to read and reread the New Sun books by Gene Wolfe and "The Last Legends of Earth," the fourth volume in A.A. Attannasio's tetralogy for lessons in elegance and subtlety as applied to describing advanced technology.The old cliche, "Ask the man what time it is and he tells you how to build a watch," is an apt description of how most will feel when trying to grind through this.Moreover, this book is representative of a disturbing trend of "review inflation" on this site and others. Soon every novel and musical recording on the internet will be rated "four stars" or higher.
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