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Summary: Things just get more interesting....
Review: A grand sequel to the Reality Dysfunction...Hamilton does a great job expanding on the first installment of the series and introduces new insights concerning the possessed and perhaps a way to deal with them...
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Summary: The series falls on its face with installment #3
Review: After having read the first two books in the series, I am sorely disappointed by this book. It would appear that Hamilton has run out of ideas and is instead resorting to the "Star Trek" trap of including elements of the present (Al Capone anyone?) into the future for the purposes writing a story. The characters carried over from the first two books are just as interesting. The ideas contained in this series are just as intriguing. Alas, this book contributes nothing new to the series, and actually brings down the overall quality of it. I read the book, I finished the book, and I am reading the sequels. However, most people will not find themselves able to read through the drek that this book constitutes. Perhaps skipping ahead to _The Naked God_ might be a better idea.
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Summary: A most eagerly awaited sequel
Review: After one of the most fascinating SF-reads of the decade, The Reality Dysfunction, Peter F. Hamilton is back with the equally enthralling sequel, The Neutronium Alchemist. The nightmare that is The Possesed is taking over more and more systems, but the fight-back has started, forming some rather unthinkable alliances. Interestingly, some rather colourful personalities from the history of Earth reappear as possesed. Superimposed on this backdrop is the frantic race to recover The Alchemist, a near mythical super-weapon capable of extinguishing stars. Joshua Calvert is back at the helm of Lady Mac, but the plot is more centred on other characters and entities. This book has the same unputdownable quality as the previous offering. Hamilton has managed to create a compelling set of characters, and the desperation oozes from the pages. Makes you wonder what kind of mind can think up such unfathomable Evil..
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Summary: An astonishing, fastpaced, overwhelming book
Review: Although I haven't read the two preceding books, I had no trouble reading the Consolidation and Part 2: Conflict. Although English is not my native tongue, I read English books for many years now, it was a real banger to read these two, VERY GOOD indeed. Waiting anxiously for the final part.
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Summary: Peter Hamilton has Been Possessed
Review: and he's trying to steal my soul by boring me to death!! I hardly ever flat out stop reading a book and give up. That's what I did with Neutronium Alchemist. Even more tedious than the first book - Reality Dysfunction. Just as goofy (dead coming back to possess the living?!?). Even more intricate subplots that disappear for what seems like hundreds of pages at a time. Just as much gratuitous sex and gore. And finally Hamilton pushes it over the top by bringing back Al Capone. Gimme a break.<...
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Summary: Peter Hamilton has Been Possessed
Review: and he's trying to steal my soul by boring me to death!! I hardly ever flat out stop reading a book and give up. That's what I did with Neutronium Alchemist. Even more tedious than the first book - Reality Dysfunction. Just as goofy (dead coming back to possess the living?!?). Even more intricate subplots that disappear for what seems like hundreds of pages at a time. Just as much gratuitous sex and gore. And finally Hamilton pushes it over the top by bringing back Al Capone. Gimme a break.<...
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Summary: An absolute rip snoter , deserves more than 5 stars!
Review: As far as I can see, Peter F Hamilton is the next rising star of the science fiction genre. He has everything that a book needs within it. I read the first set of books in about 3 days, and have devoured the second set just a quicklt. His ideas are new and fresh and has a seamlees ideas of how his universe works. O.K so the actual science of it does'nt work in places but so what, Its beautiful in a way that 'new tech' has been designed. There are many questions left unanswered in the second book and at this moment in time I am chewing my arms off in anticipation of the finale of the chronicle. I just hope he keeps on writing!!!!!!!!! I CANT WAIT.
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Summary: Good; Some neat stuff; Moves slow at times
Review: Because this is an epic, weaved through several books, character and plot development moves kind of slow. Overall it was worth reading it.
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Summary: Why haven't any good editors risen from the dead?
Review: Before I am flamed to death, I want it on record that I like both The Reality Dysfunction and the Neutronium Alchemist. Both books teem with great ideas and some interesting "futurist" social observations. The Adamist-Edenist tension is particularly intriguing. But why, oh why, are they so horribly overwritten? Hamilton's style and expression have improved immeasurably since the Mindstar Rising series. I fear though that he has been given carte blanche with the word-processor for these books, as if he's being paid by the word! The same ideas, the same observations could have been made in half the length with double the impact. Much of the problem lies with endless restatements or slightly parallex approaches to the same points. Peter, get a more savage editor and focus your obvious talent. Yes, I am looking forward the last volume. Perhaps I'll have the time to read it on the Sydney to Perth train!
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Summary: The dictionary definition of 'rip-roaring'
Review: Exactly that. It's over-long, badly written, and you still don't care because you just HAVE to know what's over the next page. Just a shame that the wait for the next (hopefully concluding) volume is so long.
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