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Sto caricando le informazioni... Greenthieves (edizione 1994)di Alan Dean Foster (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Bits of cleverness, but it kept promising more than it ultimately delivered. Plus it was awfully sexist. And I have no idea what the cover image of the edition shown here is about - looks like a young woman in a call center, which has no basis in the story. The edition I read was green, w/ Manz (the hero, an insurance adjuster) and his two robot aides: This volume was less than fulfilling. Alan Dean Foster produces such imaginative worlds and interesting characters, even if they often feel larger than life, but frequently fails to pull them together to produce a solid story. As a mystery, this volume makes part of the who-done-it too obvious and the other part impossible, and just doesn't provide a satisfactory ending. A more specific problem is the robot narrator who spends most his time commenting on human nature. Sometimes interesting when done right, this character is a mere bigot who's as willing to attack at humanity's strong points as our weak ones, and is no fun to read for that. A diverting story about an investigator trying to track down the uncanny thieves of expensive high-tech pharmaceuticals, aided by his AI helpers, Minder ( a misanthropic floating orb whose private asides to the reader are both entertaining and distracting) and Moses, a robot dedicated to learning more about his human masters. The resolution is abrupt and a bit of a disappointment, foreshadowed by the title. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
When a shipment of high-tech pharmaceuticals is stolen from a supposedly impenetrable metal shed that was heavily monitored, Detective Manz and his two robot assistants are assigned the difficult case. Original. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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I was in the mood for a fast-paced sci-fi thriller/mystery. Unfortunately, even though that's basically what this was, it still didn't quite hit the spot. Manz didn't particularly appeal to me, Vyra was basically just there to be sexy and occasionally blow stuff up, and Moses was downright gross. I'm sure Foster intended Moses's habit of chasing, pinching, and offering to have sex with women to be funny, but the humor didn't work for me at all, and some of what Moses did crossed the line into creepy.
I suspect that the Minder's habit of breaking the fourth wall to address the reader and say everything its programming wouldn't allow it to tell Manz was also intended to be funny. I was okay with this, at first, but after a while the constant stream of insults (towards Manz, Moses, all of humanity, and even the reader) got really, really old.
The story was less a mystery and more a thriller. Lots of people being assassinated, a little bit of sneaking around and spying. The solution to how the thefts were being carried out and who was doing it should have been more exciting, and yet it just felt like another thing thrown into the plot.
All in all, not as much fun as I was hoping it would be.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.) ( )