Review: I couldn't finish this
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2014
Disclaimer: I got this story as part of a packaged set called "A Taste of Tomorrow" that included 11 dystopian novels and/or short stories.I was originally happy that Black Hull was included in the set that I purchased, since the premise of it looked very interesting:  Rich vs Poor, the poor struggling to reach Utopia and upload their consciousness to gain immortality, and humanity as a virus. A futuristic space dystopian society with a man dragged forward in the future to further highlight the changes.However, the beginning of the story is slow.  Too slow.  I read the first five chapters and ended up giving up, and my OCD makes it almost impossible to give up reading a book.  But I just couldn't read anymore.  The writing was choppy so it was difficult to follow, with paragraphs about one thing followed up with a paragraph about something completely different without anything linking them together.  I can see that perhaps that author was trying to write it as a stream of thoughts, but it didn't work well as a written novel. Also, the dialogue (once Mick first starts talking with XJ) is just cheesy... full of slang and references from different time periods, and the "man meeting android" scenario was almost stereotypical. I didn't even make it to the parts where they explain that Mack has been dragged through a wormhole into the future... I only know of that part because of the description of the novel.Perhaps it gets better when you read more, but it just couldn't keep my attention or interest.