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Daemon by Daniel Suarez
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This is the first of a couple of first books by authors that write technology related fiction that I finally acquiesced to engage with after enduring relentless promotion within the technology community. Yes, I am deeply enmeshed, submerged or whatever, but no matter how deeply I dive into IT, I still have that BA in English. I am not so much a stickler that I can't abide some deviation from the rules of grammar. I am a techie, after all. But really, you should at least know the rules before you break them, if you expect to make your living via Microsoft Word. After all, it does have a grammar checker.
Mr. Suarez apparently self published this, his first work. This book is an argument for editors if there ever was one. Perhaps he didn't know what those squiggly blue lines were.
If you aren't a techie, you should know that a daemon is a kind of control or utility program that can perform certain tasks on its own, based upon some type of event that it can monitor. It is usually pronounced the same as the evil demigod homonym. The premise here is that a software genius dies of cancer and unleashed a series of daemons that make it appear that he lives after death. They do this mainly by monitoring the news and killing people with computer systems based upon some kind of bizarre decision tree, I guess.
The narrative quickly runs out of control and it isn't helped one bit by the fact that this guy can't write. Perhaps that is why those crazy publishers just couldn't see the value of his work. This guy has written a couple more books... Is it OK to laugh at unintentional comedy if nobody gets hurt?
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Roger Boone Meh. it is one of my favorite books, and it is because of the departure from the pretentious bullshit that is typical to "being a good writer". Absolutes in a review like "the dude cant write" cause me to check out of reading a review like this. Perhaps you could talk more directly to the real issues you had with the book. Was he not descriptive enough of his scenes, use enough flowery words? Was the action too much or you lost track of who was hitting who? Was it the tech that was too advanced? Anyway, it sucks it devolved into a personal attack on the writer, I would have rather known more about what you thought of the book itself - from the view-point of a self-proclaimed 'techie'.


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