Altered Carbon

Quite the first novel. Philip Marlowe of the future. I kept getting mental glimpses of Humphrey Bogart playing the part of Takeshi Kovacs. Loved the technologies described - the story assumes that we are "software" not "hardware" and hence can be downloaded, transmitted, stored, retrieved, and even messed with virtually. Flying cars, gravity suits, drug enhanced bodies and minds - yep -...more

Quite the first novel. Philip Marlowe of the future. I kept getting mental glimpses of Humphrey Bogart playing the part of Takeshi Kovacs. Loved the technologies described - the story assumes that we are "software" not "hardware" and hence can be downloaded, transmitted, stored, retrieved, and even messed with virtually. Flying cars, gravity suits, drug enhanced bodies and minds - yep - got lots of those. Will look fro more by this author... fun read.   hide

Altered Carbon I've just finished reading a book of R. Chandler's "the long goodbye" in Japanese and I read this book. Both books ideas and stages are totally different, but Takeshi Kovacs reminds me of Philip Marlowe in "the long goodbye". Like someone said samething, exactly what I thought same things!! Takeshi IS Phillip...that is so cool and surreal to me.

I love this book for many of the same reasons I adore the Gibson 'Sprawl' novels. It is a staccato vision of a dark near future wrapped in a detective noir style. The pace is faster than gibson though the style is more verbose.

needs to be read in a shorter time and with fewer interruptions than I managed. Good but.

An entertaining cyberpunk / sci fi noir -story for those dark, cold and lonely nights when you have a glass of whiskey by the bedside and just want to forget about this world. Not terribly original or groundbreaking, but has some nice ideas sprinkled here and there. It's simply good entertainment, and the sort of stuff that can almost convert you into a smoker.

Just plain, ass kicking fun! Reads like a movie!

Entertaining! Sci / detective story with an interesting story line. Styel maybe not Raymond Chandler but much better than the average sci/fi novel. The future world not totally "new" but with enough original ideas to keep me interested. The detctive story line was good and not too obvious. I will be on the look out for other titles by this author.

Spectacular book- although a little confusing and convoluted at times. The inclusion of technology central to the story is just mind bending. Truly establishes a new genre. Close in scope and grandeour to Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. If you like 90s/00s cyberpunk you'll love Morgan or Stephenson

Kovacs is insanely cool - Morgan's writing style will get you instantly hooked - if you read past the second or third page and can put it down its probably not worth buying - otherwise...