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Summary: The best read, ever
Review: This book has is like a pocket universe, once you entered you are stuck. Highly reccomended
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Summary: A true pleasure to read such an out-standing epic.
Review: A totally enjoyable epic adventure that I couldn't put down. Reading all the books of this epic struggle between life and souls locked in an unbearable after life was a truly engrossing adventure. I very much enjoyed the series and await Peter's next book. Definitly a series of books I will read again and keep in my library.
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Summary: Good technology and social base; too many sub-plots.
Review: First in series is well-grounded in sciences (physical and social). Lots of intriguing ideas on social structures, evolution, expansion into other star systems, and, of course, technology. Pretty good character development, but author seems to want to tell the story from the viewpoint of nearly everyone in the Universe. Too many sub-plots to hold in one's head with too many minor characters to track. Good read if you can figure out early who the major characters are and largely ignore the detail provided about minor characters. Its sometimes like watching one of those too large, multi-night, mini-series and frantically trying to remember who each character is as they make their obligatory 15 minute appearance each night.
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Summary: An enjoyable book that covers new ground.
Review: I liked the book for all it's complexity and meandering thru worlds and characters on a large scale. I've read the other reviews and almost didn't buy the book. Some made it sound as if you could skip hundreds of pages others complained about sex and or violence. IMHO This is really a romp thru space with lots of characters, all of whom were interesting to me. There is violence and sex but from my point of view it is in context with the plot. No gratuitous (sp ? ) offensive stuff. The plot is dense. If you can skip hundreds of pages, and still think that you read the book. I can only estimate the size of your ego with a road atlas. Lots of space Lots of adventure. Oh and it is well written.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Review: The Reality Dysfunction is really, really cool. The characters are EXTREMELY well-developed, the universe is incredible, and the storyline moves at a frentic pace. A great read!
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Summary: It's pretty much all been said, but...
Review: I bought this book, and ended up doing something very, very rare. I didn't finish it. I didn't sell it. I, who am positively reverent about the printed word, threw it away.The reviewer who mentioned the dog's fate has it right. This book turned my stomach so badly that I couldn't go on. And I read everything. This book is dreadful. God awful. It makes me sick to think that someone, somewhere, is going to compare this book to Susan Matthew's books, and thereby send some poor soul, completely revolted by this trash, away from some seriously good books. Please, if you haven't attempted this book, or any of this person's others, don't. I started out bored and slightly revulsed. I finished so revolted and sickened that I cannot even contemplate buying anything else by this author. Enough said, and probably more than anyone wants to hear.
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Summary: Far from the best SF written.
Review: This book isn't in any way the best books written. It has some good parts and some bad parts, and the good parts makes it acceptable to read. You can often skip a some hundred pages forward now and then and still keep the story in line. (too many words for nothing else but a party of red clouds and slaughter.) The following book "The neutronium alchemist" is a little better, and I'm waiting for the third book. (I did read the complete "The reality dysfunction" in one book), My opinion is that the same story could have been told in half the number of pages without any loss to the story.
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Summary: Gregory Benford said it all: dazzling invention
Review: I must admit, the book started out slow and disjointed. I almost gave up about 50 pages into it (I'm impatient with books that don't draw me in immediately). But I stuck with it and was rewarded immensely! This series is awesome! Halfway through the first book I'd already bought the next three in the series. Good thing, too, since Hamilton leaves you completely hanging at the end of each volume -- no closure -- you gotta read the next one. Definitely worth muddling through the first few chapters.
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Summary: Clive Barker meets Frank Herbert....Clive wins
Review: I really wanted to like this book and the series. The universe built by Hamilton is amazing and thought provoking. The gadgets are to die for. Then the plot is revealed: YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING! One of the best Sci-Fi universes ever put to print sharing ink with a plot stolen from a 1950's zombie movie. Let me also say that the descriptions of violence in this book are truly disturbing. Animals and human beings alike are subject to all forms of ritual torture, rape, and murder (all meticulously described on page after page after page). Eventually my interest in this book suffered the same fate as many of the characters in this book: a slow and painful death.
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Summary: brilliant
Review: Hamilton is obviously a genius, which is the only thing that makes the book hard to read. The sex in the book, although juvenile, is sleazy and entertaining and adds a different sort of flavor to the book. The ideas in this book are not only brilliant, but also pioneering and revolutionary. This book is, quite possibly, the best book I've ever read. I can't wait to read the rest of the series!!
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