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Summary: An embarrassment
Review: I very much enjoyed Carr's earlier novels. It's hard to believe he wrote this one, and harder still to believe it made it through an editor to see the light of day as a published hardcover.This reads like a bad Tom Clancy (if that's not too much of a tautology). There is a complete lack of character development and motivation. I groaned through half of this drivel and have put it aside. Life is too short to waste valuable time reading this cartoonish nonsense.
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Summary: disappointing
Review: I could not wait to get this book after being entranced with his first two efforts. He's going Danielle Steel on us--fast, sloppy, and putting no effort into tiresome character development.
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Summary: killing time alright!
Review: I'm sure there are many like myself who patiently endures the two or three years between Carr novels.I immensely enjoyed 'The Alienist'and the follow up, 'The Angel of Darkness'.I finished 'Killing Time' in all of two days, not because the story was particularly riveting,but because it is only 274 pages. I couldn't help but think as I read the story that perhaps this would have made a better short story in an anthology collection.While I thought the 'Twilight Zone' premise of the story was kind of intriguing, I am kind of disappointed.I'm not saying not to read it, it is not entirely bad, but it is not what Ive come to expect from Caleb Carr.
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Summary: A Screenplay waiting for a Movie
Review: Caleb Carr's new book, Killing Time, was a real disappointment. The plot was sketchy, the characterization was cartoonish, and the action resembles a badly contrived action movie screenplay. I have read comic books with more depth and development. This book feels like a first attempt at a novel by an new author. In comparison to Carr's other books this is a dismal read; in comparison to other futuristic, cyberpunk books, this is a travesty. Don't waste your money on this book.
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Summary: Barely 3 stars
Review: Carr's pessimistic view of the future and the preachy fashion in which it's presented made this book hard to finish, although with effort, I made it through. Carr's previous novels far surpassed this piece of work. The ideas and the plot definitely had potential, but Carr just couldn't quite fulfill it. This book seemed to be written more for Carr's ideas of the future, and not for thrills and suspense. Recommend...The library
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Summary: A waste of Time and Money
Review: I am rating this book "One Star" only because "Zero Stars" is not an option. After reading Carr's "The Alienist" and "Angel of Darkness," I was pleased to see "Killing Time" available. What a disappointment this book is! The characters are without exception shallow caricatures. The plot is contrived, artificial and pointless. The "future history" from now until the date of the action is an inconsistent montage of episodes, developed as they are required to support the next pointless plot turn. The story takes the characters from location to location with no point except to change the scenery. Everything serves only one purpose - to support Carr's "Information is not Knowledge" premise - and that could have been done in 5 pages. His attempted expansion on that theme is clumsy and amateurish. The "trick ending" is even more contrived than the rest of the plot. I felt like the author and the publisher had really put one over on me by getting me to spend good money on "Killing Time." Any self-respecting publisher would have rejected this book out of hand, instead of depending on "By the author of ____" to sell this trash. Don't waste your money buying it, and don't even waste time reading a borrowed copy.
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Summary: An apt title for this awful book
Review: Killing time describes about the only thing you'll be doing when you read this disaster. The premise of the book--disinformation in the information age--is promising. Unfortunately, Mr. Carr's execrable prose style renders the book virtually unreadable. I can't believe that an editor actually worked on this project. Any creative writing teacher would give it an "F." It's impossible to work up any interest in or empathy for the cardboard characters who spend the bulk of the novel zipping around the world on a combination spaceship/submarine. I'm just about finished, and I'm rooting for the bad guy. I have to believe that Random House and Mr. Carr are perpetrating some kind of joke on the reading public here. I read "The Alienist" and recall thinking that it was the work of a serious author, but that person didn't write this book. It's just a shame that some quality book was rejected in order to publish this trash. And what was TIME Magazine thinking when it published excerpts from it?
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Summary: A very disappointing encore
Review: If you love to hate Bill Gates, Killing Time offers a portrait of a villainous information age tycoon that should fit quite well with your world view. Unfortunately, that's about all it offers. It shouldn't have been like that. The premise of this novel, that information is not knowledge and the Internet is a lousy place to go if you are looking for the truth, is marvelously rich with possibility. But that premise is sacrificed almost immediately to the trite, predictible workings of a sci-fi pot boiler. I've seen Flash Gordon episodes with better drawn characters, and Marvel comics (from which genre Carr seems to have borrowed profusely) with more believable story lines. Having read The Alienist, I know that Carr can do much better. I hope that next time he takes more care for the quality of his work.
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Summary: Surprising
Review: Having read both The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness, I hate to admit that I actually found myself looking forward to this latest novel from Caleb Carr. I was not disappointed by this latest effort. I had hoped that it was to be another in his previous series, but found myself drawn into this world of his creation. One of the most surprising elements of this novel, once I realized the characters were different, was the parallels between the character ensembles and their activities. Faced with extreme situations, the group found time for intellectual discussions over dinner, something lacking in the modern world. I hated for the book to end and was surprised at the outcome, the solution was almost too easy. Here's hoping for another book by Mr Carr, featuring either group of characters.
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Summary: Carr hits brick wall--head-on
Review: Stopped at page 153 couldn't bare any more embarrasement for the author...read his first two books and thought I was on to another great writer...what a total disappointment, wouldnt send this crap to an enemy
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