Title: You could be tempted...
Product review: ...to buy The Golden Age, as I did, because if you like Morgan, Stross or early Stephenson works, this book will repeatedly come up in recommendations and reviews. Add the dythyrambic comments by readers and editorialists and you will find yourself going one click too far, sooner or later.Eidolon has built a very good account of the different ways this book does not live up to any expectations you might have had. I won't elaborate but to summarize:- Contorted and nonsensical plot- Incoherent and not-even-thought-provoking science- Slow moving- Endless bad descriptions- Boring charactersEidolon managed to read one third of the book, I dragged myself to the end of the second third, when another shipment from Amazon at least rescued me.
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