Gnomon
Ratings35
Average rating3.9
I was taken in by all the positive blurbs on this one. And I've read this author before (Angelmaker) and enjoyed the book. But I maybe should have paid attention to what 2-star reviewers were saying about this book. Ten-dollar vocabulary words don't faze me, but the long stream-of-consciousness type chapters where you don't really know how they tie in to the story are a slog. Apparently that type of thing is a big part of the book. This is a science fiction near future kind of thing with an emphasis on a surveillance state and a way to get into peoples heads (almost quite literally). But oof! What a slog. I gave up on page 166 (of 660).
I was taken in by all the positive blurbs on this one. And I've read this author before (Angelmaker) and enjoyed the book. But I maybe should have paid attention to what 2-star reviewers were saying about this book. Ten-dollar vocabulary words don't faze me, but the long stream-of-consciousness type chapters where you don't really know how they tie in to the story are a slog. Apparently that type of thing is a big part of the book. This is a science fiction near future kind of thing with an emphasis on a surveillance state and a way to get into peoples heads (almost quite literally). But oof! What a slog. I gave up on page 166 (of 660).
