Some of the situations were too far fetched and were not even internally coherent. I'm big into science fiction and fantasy so I can readily suspend my disbelief, but with this novel, I give up. The plot is so far fetched that the book leaves the reader thinking."give me a break". Filled to the brim with technology.but not used in a realistic fashion. In this book, you hear a line, groan.hear another line, and groan some more. In the B-movies, at least the acting, scenery and all things visual serve to mitigate the gag-inducing cheesy lines. Such trite lines coming out of the mouths of one dimensional characters is often seen only in B-movies. Rapid fire dialog.that is utterly unbelievable.
What serves as a good tool for movie making is not good style for writing a book. I reads like a bunch of scenes from B-movies strung together in a semi-cohesive fashion. Filled to the brim with technology and techno babble (which I actually typically enjoy) Bad points: - It's fast paced. Rapid fire dialog.again just like a movie. There are rapid transitions betweens scenes, locations, situations, subplots, etc. Instead of loving it, I ended up hating it. I was looking forward to this book after reading all the great reviews and some favorable comparisons to Ready Player One. Read some sample chapters of Daemon if you need more convincing. Check it out from the library, buy it online, or borrow it, just find a way to read it. Everyone from the CEO who has only the vaguest understanding of his IT infrastructure to the mail room guy who goes home to play WoW for 8 hours to the advertising exec who only knows how to check his email. There is no reason for you not to read Daemon, no matter your level of technical understanding. Vague, I know, but I'm trying very hard not to spoil the fun of this book. To use a common cliche, he "gets it." Actually he gets it, gets into its inner workings, and turns it inside out. No no, my friends, this is not the book equivalent of Hackers (you know where code magically floats across the screen and other cheap tricks), this is a book written by a systems consultant (read: normally the guy that gets called in with the regular schmoes can't figure things out) for Fortune 100 companies. All those words/phrases can be found in this book. A few words to the techies: SQL injection attack, botnet, and rootkit. Read some of the recent news about the Storm botnet. Without giving away some of the plot points, I'll just say this. While I was reading Daemon the thought that this could really happen kept going through my head. So, another book about computers taking over the world.
If you're content in knowing the information provided in the title and would like to skip the praise I'm about to bestow and just buy the book.
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