Review: Beyond farce to the point of just plain silliness
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 1, 2014
As usual I received this book free in exchange for a review. This time the author contacted me directly. Despite that kindness I give my scrupulously honest opinion below.The nutshell sketch of this is that it paints a portrait of a world decades in the future that has gone mad under the influence of technology run amok. Everything in the book has a close modern parallel. Furtl is probable Google. There's a close relative of the Patriot Act. The NSA is now the DCS (Department of Cultural Security). You get the idea. The book represents our modern world and government taken to absurd lengths.In most cases this is the part of the review where I give positives and negatives but I find myself ill equipped to do so this time as I found the book just too thinly drawn to the insane. I enjoy a good farce as much as the proverbial next person but this just struck me like a gent with too much time on his hands plopping down the most absurd thing that came to mind. Good humor mixes the absurd with the real and this was just too absurd. It wasn't funny it was just insane.In summary, do I recommend this book? Not really? It has an intensely liberal lean to it which I'm fine with but it just plows a furrow too outside the bounds of reality. As the Brits might put it, this one is over the top. Give it a go if you insist, but don't get your hopes up.---As always I endeavor to make my reviews as helpful as possible. If I've accomplished that goal then I'm very glad! If I haven't or if there's something else you think I should be telling you then don't hesitate to leave me a comment so I can do better with the next review.