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Title: Superficial
Review: "Altered Carbon" is the story of Takeshi Kovacs, whose mind has been downloaded to Earth and placed in a stranger's body so that he can fulfill the job of figuring out why an uber-rich, centuries old man who knew he couldn't die would kill one of his own bodies. What promises from the reviews to be a complex and intriguing story turns out to be 500+ pages of superficial scenarios that are poorly stringed together. I only bothered to finish the book because I assumed events would come together for a grand finale, but the ending was just as blasé as the rest. The scenes, with their gratuitous weaponry and violence and cartoonish characters, generally read like a graphic novel (no offense to the good graphic novels out there) and the writing is so shallow that I just couldn't care.
