Asher why? Whyyyyyy?! Thanks for writing some of my favorite science fiction though ). This man truly does not belong in this line of work. Does he not understand that he is not the writer? Use voices to serve the story ffs, don't give them so much of your own influence that they can not possibly fit in anymore. He lays on the voices in such an exaggerated way that characters just seem rediculous. Is that horrible narration or what?! Besides that his voices are unbearable. The result is that I keep reconstructing half the sentences in my head the way Asher must have meant them so I can understand what is actually meant. Like this: "I want them WATCHED at ALL times." this narrator, of whom I refuse to look up the name, just invents random pauses and emphasizes words in a way that rips their meaning completely out of context.
Quote: "I want THEM watched al all times." thatvis rediculous! Every thrid grader can sense that the ephasis should be on the word "watched" and in my perference also on "all". He reads sentences in completely alien ways. Not only does he not know how to use proper intonation and accents. The true horror of this audio incarnation of a cyberpunk classic is the narrator. Still,at chapter 7 or so the story picks up momentum and I got sucked in anyway. Not much of the compact, action packed, to the point writing his later work is full of.
A lot of boring inbetween stuff and filler material that feels like it could just as well have been left out of the book. I can tell this is one of Asher's earlier attempts at writing a novel.
Related Entries The Host by Neal Asher Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck by Neal Asher Share this page on: Subscribe to our podcast. Slower early work, horrible narrator, good grit Finally taken on by a large publisher, Pan Macmillan, his first full-length SF novel, Gridlinked, came out in 2001, and now in total he has over twenty-five books to his name, also available in translation across the world.
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