Review: Confusing and dense.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2014
Confusing and dense. That’s the big thing about this book. A reader doesn’t know if this should be metafictional, metaphysical, or what? The author seems to be aiming for something along the lines of Fringe or some similar concept using alternate worlds, but goes into from the wrong way (at least to me, and I’m someone who can tell you who lived on Earth-2, Earth-X, Earth-616 and easily followed the dimension jumping in Heinlein’s books).This is one of many books that I’ve read recently that attempts to be “multimedia” and fails horribly. Many chapters are prefaced or consist of media-style transcripts of conferences and the like that had they been formatted a little differently from the main narrative (assuming that can be found here), they would’ve added a bit more to the story. As it is, it’s more of a mess than anything else.This is perhaps the first book that I have ever found to be offensive. I have no problem with most things; hell, you can write about fisting nuns and putting kittens into woodchippers while wearing Nazi regalia, and if it’s interesting, I’ll have no problem with it. And I can understand wanting to key the story into major real-life events, but to conclude that Chernobyl, the Challenger disaster and the Columbia’s destruction were due to “memory lapses” is OFFENSIVE to the talented people who died in those tragedies. That simple passage put me completely off this piece of crap book, and anything this writer WILL EVER write in the future. She is a non-entity from now on.I attempted to read another 25% or so into the book, just on G.P., but nothing really improved.  The book isn’t really worth wasting my time on.