Mina’s Reviews > Altered Carbon > Status Update

‘You’re exactly like your mother’ such a last century insult. It works, but it’s like bringing a Blueberry to a phone call

Trepp is such a funny psycho

‘I’m a shit detective’

‘No worries, here’s some superpower (Envoy Intuition)’

Philosophy starts with ‘what is this, why is this?’ but ideally it continues with hypotheses or answers. Why me, why her, why this sleeve, why that sleeve? Make and effort, show some attempt at original thought.

‘In the Envoy corps you take what is offered’

How very James Bond. She offered, no worries, my partner is alive and prisoner, her partner is alive and prisoner, I’m sure no one would object to it

You can take 50% of the waffling in this book and make it easier to read; it’s so annoying to find cool concepts drowned in Takeshi Kovacs’ obsession with the state of his penis. Yes, the world is dark and full of porn, can we talk about the murder, now?

PS Fuck you, Curtis, for delaying the story further

Takeshi Kovacs needs to have a plan. Is that too much to ask? Please stop killing people willy-nilly for a second and make a plan and then get to killing people again

Ok, that was mean.

The most unrealistic thing is that he can mind-control his dick to play someone’s mom but it’s still making an appearance every other stream-of-consciousness moment. Please, let’s leave the magic dick alone and focus on plot.

The most unrealistic thing about this book is how many women are after this guy