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Review title: Why compelling?
Product review: Some other reviewer found this book "dark and compelling".I own up to the capital sin of having bought and read this book without having read the first volume, Altered Carbon.However, I am afraid this does not make me believe any of the situations depicted in this book. It is not so much the gratuitous violence, probably a marketing gimmick, as the cardboard characters which are anything but three-dimensional: I cannot help thinking I am actually reading a manga (and I am not very fond of manga, either)...Character seem to move about aimlessly, without any obvious drive. One wonders why do they act like they do.The plot is not that interesting either, with the usual devices:1. just in time;2. people are not what they seem to be;3. a hero will overcome most difficulties.I read it through with lots of effort, as if I just wanted to get done with it.No, this is not a masterpiece, nor is original, nor funny, nor anything one might possibly wish to read.
