Altered Carbon | 
pickI reread this in conjunction with my rewatch of season 1 of the show and it‘s been long enough that it felt like reading for the first time again! This is such a great sci fi detective noir that sets up a really interesting society where you can basically become immortal by “resleeving” your consciousness in a new body. Takeshi Kovacs is a really great character to follow. This remains one of my all time favorite books. 5/5⭐️
so-soI always stay up way too late when I only have a few chapters left. This one gets 2.5/5 ⭐️ from me. Good story, okay writing, a little slow for my taste but picked up toward the end. It is #1 in a trilogy, but with the way its written I think I may read them as stand alones. I will get to the next one another time. Lol.
so-soThis is a futuristic crime thriller. While I liked it at the start, I felt the deeper I got into the story the less I enjoyed it. The plot got kind of convoluted. Too much going on and too many angles. A simpler plot would have worked better. In other words, less would have been more. The world building was good but I would have liked more character development. 3⭐
pickThe world building in this novel is excellent. The premise is that a person‘s mind is saved in their “stack” located at back of the neck. When a person dies, the stack is removed and can be re-sleeved into a new body. The author explores the problems of class and power by showing who can afford to get re-sleeved and who cannot. I did not care for the writing style- so many bad descriptions of breasts- but the story compelled me to keep reading.
so-soThis could've been so good, if the author would've kept it short. Or shorter. I was intrigued by his ideas, and what they mean to the future of humankind. But the story drags on for too long, and Morgan looses sight of the, in my opinion, important part of the book.
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#IfYouLikeThis #BladeRunner
I haven‘t read this one (or seen the Netflix show) but it sounds interesting!
pickOkay so I thought this book was good and I want to watch the Netflix series now *but* I found it quite complicated at times and it did have some very disturbing bits. The concept is fantastic though and there were some interesting scenarios exploring the implications of a world like this. ⭐⭐⭐
Lazy Saturday morning English breakfast tea, oatmeal and a good book.
The day was long, I'm tired, so tea, chocolate cake baked by partner 2 days ago and a good book. #bookandtea
@BethM thank you for the lovely extra fun goodies in my #LMPBC package. @cobwebmoth your package will go out Tuesday or Wed.
On its way to you @Chrissyreadit
Look at the cup my mom got me! Still enjoying the book- doing audio and print to get it done.
Trying to will fall into existence and get through this book. Its compelling but I often feel lost. Super thankful that my #bfcr2 Group let me stay in the chat even though I‘m not doing the challenge. I‘m in the midst of a sucky anxiety cycle and their support has been great.
It was girls and dogs weekend so I‘ve been without service since Friday. Hoping to get some solid reading in tonight but I‘m so tired.... the pups is already passed out.
pickI really enjoyed this crazy ride! This novel felt like reading an action movie and I truly can‘t wait to watch the Netflix series. I don‘t think there was much intellectual depth to this book, but it was a good brain candy read. For its entertainment value, I have given it 4 out of 5 stars. I can‘t wait to hear what everyone thinks of this! #lmpbc
For the #24b4Monday readathon, I am at just over 6 hours!
bailedThe story world and mystery was interesting, but somehow this wasn't for me.
I survived my first post-surgery day of work today, hooray! Patting myself on the back for pulling a spaghetti casserole out of the freezer yesterday. Stopped at Walmart on my way home and grabbed bread and salad, and pulled down my stash of paper plates. May be bad for the environment, but hooray for a simple/tasty dinner.
And I‘m really liking this book! Thanks to whichever Litten recommended it! #bookanddinner
This book did not grab my attention the first time I tried to read it but I thought I would give it another chance since the first try was during a readathon 😊 #LunchtimeReading #SecondChance #IMightFinish #IMightDNF 🤷🏻♀️
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I have started my first reading of the 2019 and I so so so so excited about it!!!
pickI‘m less forgiving of the tropes than when I first met Takeshi Kovacs, but I still found Altered Carbon a helluva ride. It‘s gritty, it‘s cynical, it‘s thrilling and it‘s violent. It‘s so soaked in noir you can‘t see it after dusk, but I appreciate that Morgan tries to subvert the genre‘s misogyny. I was worried it would just make me angry these days; but I was pleased to find it mostly made me thoughtful.
‘The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.‘ - Quellcrist Falconer, Poems and Other Prevarications
...ouch.
“Make it personal”
I used to have two quotes on my Facebook profile: Quellcrist‘s angry call to arms, and a rant from Ianucci‘s political satire In the Loop about fucking up.
...I should put this one back on there.
pickJust like the show I loved the world building and the story was solid. However, if I hadn't watched the show, I think I would have struggled in the beginning to understand the terminology and what was going on. Looking forward to the next Takeshi Kovacs, which I got on audio 🙌
I got the ebook version of Altered Carbon a few weeks ago, but I prefer paperback so couldn't resist this used copy!
#bookhaul
pickThis was between a pick and a so so for me. I read it because a friend begged me to and I have to admit the detail is astonishing! But it was so much that I had to concentrate really hard and reread bits and I think where I‘m just so busy at the moment I feel like I want something slightly easier to read 😂
The story is engaging and well thought out with complicated characters😊
I think I will give his other books a go too! 😃
We discovered this story through the Netflix series. We were impressed by the series, and we expect to feel the same way about the book–a New York Times bestseller–which we just bought for less than the price of a cup of coffee. (We might not live in the age of immortality yet, but you sure can‘t beat the entertainment.) Anyone read it? What did you think? Just $2.99 right now on Kindle. https://amzn.to/2zTqhve
#scifi #thrillers #deals #bargains
pick"Take what is offered and that must sometimes be enough."
After I saw the Netflix series and heard there was a book, it was the very next thing I read. I'm glad I did, because there was so much detail that I missed in the show. Although it was centered around Takeshi, the book also showed me the people around him more closely. A long book, which I liked enough to stick through.
so-soI was excited at the start of this book as I thought it was a great idea but I felt like the bad language, sex and violence was over the top and made it seem like the target audience is wannabe bad boys. I think the ideas might translate better visually so I'm hopeful the TV show will be better.
#TBRtemptation post 3! This is the first installment of the Takeshi Kovacs series. It's the 25th Century. Your consciousness can be downloaded and put into another body ("sleeved"), making death something of a minor blip of an event. Re-sleeved into a body in San Francisco after being shot in the chest while working for the UN, he's thrown into a far-reaching and very dark conspiracy testing existence as a commodity. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?
so-soI'm running a touch behind on my reviews, cause wedding madness from April.
So this book is gritty, bloody, very adult. It's not bad, but not great either. Read the full review here:
https://www.librarything.com/work/18414/reviews/155121957
#alteredcarbon #review #takashikovacs
pickI decided to listen to this book on audio after watching the show. I liked the show, and I liked the book. There were some differences between the two. What I did learn is that I need to choose books on audio that are not quite so long. This one clocked in at around 17 hours. It was difficult for me to maintain my interest over that period of time. I only listen to audiobooks to and from work, so this one took a while for me.
pickA cracking read, really unputdownable. Had a very different feel to it than the TV series - Kovacs is less of a cipher and feels more human, and medium allows more a deep dive into things only mentioned in the show. Definitely going to look into the rest of the series.
My B&N #bookhaul from today (I seriously have a problem).
I‘m intrigued to see how Altered Carbon is compared to the Netflix show (which I loved).
Starting this as my audio travel book. 17 hours. Eep. Need a good road trip in there to get thru it before I have to return it...
#alteredcarbon #audio
"For all that we have done, as a civilization, as individuals, the universe is not stable, nor is any single thing within it. Stars consume themselves, the universe itself rushes apart, and we ourselves are composed of matter in constant flux. Colonies of cells in temporary alliance, replicating and decaying, and housed within, an incandescent cloud of electrical impulse [...] the perception of it will, of course, make you dizzy."
Hot damn! I just finished watching this on Netflix. I didn‘t realise it was a book too! Damn my book buying ban, because this show was freaking awesome and I can only assume to book is better!
