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Good mystery, good characterization.

Prettty enjoyable

Very modern. Hopefully author can avoid some of the modern lecturing that so many fall into.

Boring in the way that the protagonist is essentially immune to all damage and all consequences and immediately able to blend into high security places and government groups.

Love this setup so far!

As someone who has read a ton of cyberpunk, novels... there is a difference between the core cyberpunk, novels and ones that are just paying Homage to neon signs and glamorize drug use


This book falls into the former group. It is worthy of being in the cyberpunk core novels. In my humble opinion.

Really good banter in a fun scifi premise

This book includes way too many draft chapters the the author wrote to build back story. He probably ran out of time and needed to submit a book by a deadline.

Why else would he ignore the big, interesting part of the book for so long? There's a magic staircase that is apparently a portal...

Why would I care about this huge variety of childhood bullies?

Ok brownie points for referencing an amazing forgotten album.

Loves secret domain by Coil.

Uuugggh. Massive politics dump from author. Lecturing the audience about Republicans and Trump.

One of the most unique stories I've read.

The car accident scene is a genuinely disturbing unsettling one.

It's getting spooky. But I smell a big ol red herring! We will see...

Okay, so now I understand why those crazy chapter preludes with the weird poetry and philosophy are doing. It's actually a frame story kinda very cool.

A comedy horror with a cast? Very nice so far

It's written very well, and it's good. But the one thing that's not thrilling. Me is that it's just a plain old coming of age story. There's really no magical or surrealistic elements, or anything that I typically look 42 keep my imagination.

Mcammon's writing is so similar to Stephen King! That's a good thing.

The epilogue is such a mind fuck

When Thaw has his crash oit tantrums, it's so funny. Hes an amazingly written character

The story shifted to a student. Not sure if it's the same character as the 1st story yet. It's very good though

There is some real satire here. It's of the scathing variety of which I either need to reread, or maybe i'm just not smart enough to pick up everything on the first go. Round... but it is a very enjoyable, very weird story. So far

A very strange story.

I don't like the narrators pronunciation sometimes. Clique = cleeek. And foyer = foy-yay. Blech.

It took a turn into a really good scifi story.

Very impressed that this was written fifty years ago, in some of these concepts are still being discussed.

But also, there is a distinct lact of story. Here they got sacrificed for technical accuracy. Which I love, but also I love the stories..

Dropped into a story in progress
Wtf.. who's the kid she rescued? Who's the king that was a butcher? The author just expects us to know

Awful.

Modern politics shoe horned into a scifi book. Some characters are referred to as "they" even though it's one singular person. And the worst offense in this scifi universe is to support police and racism.

This narrator doesn't have the reading abilities. Beyond ninth grade.

Any unusual word with three or more syllables, is mispronounced.

There's a weird quality to this style of writing that is rubbing me wrong. It's like romantasy characterization... where they all are written so corny and unreal.

Yah, standard but funny pixel punk book with great characters.

This is so similar to Dungeon Crawler Carl. Not a bad thing but the humor and genre and narrator and characters are reminiscent of dcc.

Oh and a super talented narrator