Title: Trouble
Product review: From the bizarre early sequence lifted almost verbatim from Hemmingway's "Big Two-Hearted River" (an homage? A joke? either way I don't get it) to the rambling, depressing, Connie Willis-meets-cyberpunk conclusion, "Mind Catcher" is a work in search of a point.It is an odd take on the mad scientist/doctor genre, I'll give it that, but the premise at the heart of the book--a PET-type scanner that can suck your soul out through your eyes (seriously!)--is ludicrous to be beyond the possibilty of suspension of disbelief.This really epitomises a bad techno-horror-thriller. The ideas are utterly unoriginal and the plot telegraphes its moves half a book ahead. It was really only morbid curiosity and insomnia which got me to the end. In case you're curious, they all live happily ever after.Yuck.
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