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Title: Didn't bother to finish it
Review: I attempted to read this, got about 60 pages in and decided that it wasn't worth the effort. I didn't like the main character, didn't care what happened to him and wasn't impressed with the authors attempts to think of 17 radical ideas before breakfast and then include them all in the book. The first several chapters read instead like short stories that were a showcase of all the amazing ideas that the author came up with but were only thinly linked with the other chapters leaving the plot somewhat disjointed and incoherant. I've mentioned in other reviews that it takes a fair bit for me to not finish a book once started but so far i've been unable to convince myself to finish two Charles Stross books.
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