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| Bruce Sterling |
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Ranking It's hard to find a whole lot positive
about this one. Sterling seems to be attempting to write some kind of cyberpunk
novel, where hackers use all of their high tech expertise to track tornados in
the Midwest in search of the elusive F-6. The F-6 would simply be the most powerful
storm ever to be recorded. Sterling makes some weak attempts to add a bit more
intrigue to the plot, but in a nutshell this is what the book is about. The reader
is dragged from storm to storm and while this was interesting at first, it grows
quickly repetitive so that by the ending you could practically care less what
is happening. The characters don't help either. I can honestly say there wasn't
a single character in this that I didn't want to get crushed by each tornado so
that I wouldn't have to deal with them anymore. The main character, a hacker geek,
is the worst. He is horribly annoying. Sterling seems to try to do what Neil Stephenson
does best, create a complete self proclaimed geek, but make him endearing to the
reader. Sterling falls flat on his face and creates a central character that made
me cringe to read about. I rooted for the storms more than him. Even the technological
aspects of this one seemed flat. I described all of these laptops and high tech
items to track and monitor the storms, and I just found myself saying "Who cares."
These ideas just seemed to have no practical use that I could see affecting my
life in any way in the future. This is the only Sterling book I've read, and it'll
probably be the last for a while unless someone does some heavy convincing to
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