Title: A Bad Dream
Review: I really hated this book. Usually when I dislike a book this much I just stop reading it, but I continued to expect that what I was reading was the set-up and that then the book would start.It has absolutely no character development. It consists almost entirely of dream-like disjointed, unconnected vignettes. So it doesn't have a story either! You couldn't like or dislike any of the characters because you learned absolutely nothing about them. I also thought that it was scientifically implausible, e.g. an 'artifical reality body suit' that could simulate the experience of breaking bones. It purports to be a detective story where the action takes place in "Artificial Reality" (AR), but I think that, at best, it was Artificial Lucid Dreaming (ALD). Or, perhaps it was mostly a full sensory electronic game and I certainly felt like I was reading a detailed description of someone's play of a video game - even more boring than watching someone play or playing a game yourself.
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