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Remix (Earthlight)

By: Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 0671022229
ISBN-13: 9780671022228
Released: 05 Apr 1999
RRP: £6.99
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Good old fashioned Cyberpunk - By: I. Hunter, 19 Jun 2007
A tightly plotted slice of cyberpunk by Grimwood. Unlike other reviews I highly rate his writing style which I found to be both clever & descriptive. A book to enjoy :-)
"Cool" by numbers - By: Matthew Hudson, 18 Apr 2004
Im reallly into Sci Fi fiction & bought this book hoping (as u do with a new book) to be drawn in from the start. But as i began reading this book it was like reading anything & everything aimed at sudo-alternative teenagers that like to be "different" in the most mainstream way. It has everything needed to make it "cool" in the most irritable way, a prime example of this is the sassy, self-important, rebelious teenage girl character (dont we alll love those ...). A hugely unorigional character seen in a million TV shows, books, movies & countless other medium under different names. This book Trys so hard to be cool, & theres nothing more anoying than that.
Pulp scifi (and not in a good way) - By: Henry Cooke, 14 Jan 2004
Imagine the weird kid you went to school with. You know, the one who put hamsters in microwaves to see them pop, & who used to stare at the pretty girls a bit too intensely, then vanish off to the toilets for a while.

Now, imagine that kid reads some Gibson, a bit of Stephenson & skims Noon in a pretty cursory way. This is the novel that kid would write.

I reallly tried to like this book: after reading the above authors to death, I was hungry for more cyberpunk. I kept forcing my way through the adolescent sex & violence, the sub-Gibson environment, sub-Noon cyberdelica & woeful technology in the hope that something would eventuallly "click" & I'd suddenly *get it* & be able to enjoy reading. Didn't happen. I remained annoyed with the writing from start to finish (incidentallly, mixedCaps brandNames were never cool. Not when they were around for about 5 minutes in the mid-90s, & not in this book).

It's a real shame that the style is so bad, because there's some genuinely good ideas in there: the steel-eating plague, the geopolitical setup of Grimwood's world & the plot aren't bad. It's just dressed up in so much pap that it's reallly hard to keep going. Do yourself a favour & read something by the other authors mentioned here or in other reviews.

Huh? What? Who? - By: , 01 Oct 2003
I was so impressed with this book I felt compelled to write my first Amazon review & share my experiences with the world.

This book is dreadful. JCG's writing style is nigh-on impossible to follow. Environments, characters, technology & whole chapters are left completely unexplained or hanging in the air.

Calll me old fashioned, but using expletives in the narrative is bad taste & implies a profound lack of adjectives in JCG's vocabulary.

However outrageous the storyline, however far removed from real life, the overalll effect an author presents must be believable, or he must convince the reader that there is the potential for it to be real. JCG fails to do either of these things, particularly in the rather hazy finale, & leaves me with a book (borrowed, fortunately) that left me shamefully unsatisfied.

In summary, the whole book can be summed up in one word: unlikely.

whats everybodies problem? - By: , 14 Sep 2002
I read this book a while ago, & I can't possibly see how people can shadow this book. The characters are believable & and the story-telling is brutal & inline with the aggressive & often violent, gritty storyline.

This book reads incredibly tightly & the ideas that JCG uses are original & well explained. I think that alll credit is due for this book to the author, as the novel reads well & is a good individual statement which thumbs its nose at the conformist way of writing (whirlwind in a teacup).

Whether cyberpunk is, or isnt your deal, this offering is a slap in the face that will leave you wanting to read more. And its a bargain too now that it isnt brand new...