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xjfitzy's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
2.0
There's potential for a great book here wrapped in way too much misogyny
sonofthunder's review
2.0
This book had a super fun premise. A man is playing a computer game and soon discovers his characters may be more real than he first suspected. The protagonist is playing God in these peoples' lives and what does that mean? There are some heavy philosophical questions that can be considered here, and the author to his credit, does attempt to engage with these questions of the power of God, free will, grace, etc. Sadly, the execution is a bit lacking. Honestly, I just didn't enjoy this book all that much and so I hesitate to even write a long review of this book. Some of the ideas spark, yet I really just had a bad taste in my mouth when I finished this book. Majority of that probably had to do with the narrator (who yes, I can fully admit is separate from the author - as the author took such pains to point out!). I didn't like how the narrator thought about women. I didn't like how the narrator thought about God. Frankly I just didn't appreciate being in the narrator's head at all. It wasn't a pleasant experience. He was pretentious, proud and uncomfortable to be around. The story was half-decent, but the narrator's rambling and full-of-himself writing style was just too much. Would not recommend.
domesticat's review
3.0
Oh, how lusciously dated this book has become, thanks to advancing PC technology. Greeley is a guilty pleasure for me. Never the greatest writer, but always a lovely sentimentalist, I keep coming back to his books even though I really don't understand why. This one I've reread a couple of times and boggled at how quickly his details dated it.
It's cyberpunk written by a priest. It's not quite punky and it's not quite religious. Yet I have a strange affection for it anyway. Perhaps I'm the one that needs medication.
It's cyberpunk written by a priest. It's not quite punky and it's not quite religious. Yet I have a strange affection for it anyway. Perhaps I'm the one that needs medication.
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