Finally, I completed reading “Rainbows end,” yeesh what a waste of time that was. It took me long enough to read the damn thing. So here’s a bit of a ”Review.”

Synopsis:

Celebrity poet/snob Robert Gu has come back from Alzheimer's in a nursing home called Rainbows end as he's trying to adjust into a new world of wearable computers and disappearing books. He gets involved with a secret cabal that meets in a University library not from a bio tech lab where another story takes place.

Pros: Good writing fair world building, lots of ideas big and small.

Cons: Murky, boring plot. Setting was to ambiguous because you never always knew if what you were reading was real or virtual. The Characters seemed ok but I found the author using similar phrasing for most characters. “Hey,” being a word most often used. The characters later tuned out to be flat and uninspiring.

Bottom line:

Where do I begin? Firstly, I’m not a cyberpunk reader and this book was solid cyberpunk all the way, except this is a little more down to earth then authors like Charles Stross. Not having a lot of experience with reading this genre, I’m not too much at liberty to define what’s good or bad. However I found the main characters bogged down in technical jargon.

Would I recommend this book? Yes to fans of cyberpunk. To anyone else? No. I didn’t particularly like this book and I spent 26 days reading it. Mainly this book was way over my head.

I called Anne during my break and she said Boots is done. She wants to introduce him to the other cats tomorrow night. Good stuff.

We’re sitting here on a mid Friday afternoon and we have Boots more or less mingling with the other cats. They seem to be getting along.

So, the big Copenhagen summit on “climate change” is about to wrap up. From my understanding just from watching the evening news, it seems that the richest nations (in a recession?) have to help out the poorest nations to the tune of $100B/year? Are they nuts an in the head? Now watch, as usual China and India will be exempt from this Boondoggle. You know who’s going to have to pay for this? The US and Canada. And for what? So the earths temperature can be set at 2 degrees from an earlier time? This Copenhagen fiasco is worse then the Kyoto accord. I realize I don’t have all the information yet but at a glance, this thing sucks. Anyways its back on the job for me tonight. I got to go to my bank after work as well ad a big day again tomorrow,