JAMES BOND IN SPAAAAAAAACE.
Top agent Ian Cormac is tasked with solving the mystery of how an entire planet was wiped out by a transit system going horribly wrong. As part of it, he's challenged with recapturing his humanity by doing without his grid uplink to the AI systems that he has come more and more to rely on at the expense of his ability to relate to people, which caused his mission to break apart a terrorist cell to fail with his cover blown.
This was the first Agent Cormac book, but not the first in the Polity world. I may have liked this better if I'd read more of the Polity world before this one -- a lot happened, but it felt like I should have "gotten" more of the reveals throughout the book. It also wasn't helped with Cormac -- a fairly flat and unengaging character. Jack …
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Michael Steeves rated The Republic of Nothing: 4 stars
Michael Steeves rated Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: 5 stars
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter, #5)
There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it’s haunting Harry Pottter’s dreams. Why else would …
Michael Steeves reviewed Gridlinked by Neal L. Asher
Review of 'Gridlinked' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
JAMES BOND IN SPAAAAAAAACE.
Top agent Ian Cormac is tasked with solving the mystery of how an entire planet was wiped out by a transit system going horribly wrong. As part of it, he's challenged with recapturing his humanity by doing without his grid uplink to the AI systems that he has come more and more to rely on at the expense of his ability to relate to people, which caused his mission to break apart a terrorist cell to fail with his cover blown.
This was the first Agent Cormac book, but not the first in the Polity world. I may have liked this better if I'd read more of the Polity world before this one -- a lot happened, but it felt like I should have "gotten" more of the reveals throughout the book. It also wasn't helped with Cormac -- a fairly flat and unengaging character. Jack Reacher was done better as a hypercompetent malcontent, and Bond certainly had more flair and panache.
Michael Steeves rated Ubuntu: 4 stars
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Michael Steeves reviewed Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker
Review of 'Early Retirement Extreme' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Not really sure what I just read it what the takeaways are....
This book was a fairly large waste of time.
A little bit of the same FIRE mantras, a lot of pseudoscience and random chartzengraphs.
Michael Steeves rated Killing Floor: 3 stars
Killing Floor by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #1)
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s …
Michael Steeves rated Blood Meridian: 4 stars
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified …
Michael Steeves rated A Memory Called Empire: 4 stars
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Won the 2020 Hugo for Best Novel. Ambassador Mahit Dzmare is posted far from her mining station home, to the …
Michael Steeves rated The Fifth Risk: 4 stars
Michael Steeves rated What Matters Most: 4 stars
Michael Steeves rated Make time: 4 stars
Make time by Jake Knapp
Do you ever wonder where your day went? Or daydream about activities you'll get to "someday"? Knapp and Zeratsky share …
Michael Steeves rated The Reincarnationist Papers: 3 stars
Michael Steeves rated Gideon the Ninth: 3 stars
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
"The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and …