Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America Audiobook

" Really, I enjoyed the concepts of the novel. Wilson provides a very believable scene. The flaw in the book is that the characters don't feel very deep. Given that it is told in first person, this is a glaring flaw. Sometimes the characterization of the narrator works - it's written from the perspective of an older man remembering a personal history - but often it comes off as a bit one dimensional. "

" Thoroughly enjoyable, lighthearted and old-timey story about the big bad future. "

" Loved the style of writing, loved the subtleties of character, loved the gradually unfolding history and the terribly plausible turns it took, loved the drama of the end and the glimmer of hope after it. There was nothing I did not enjoy about this book. (Except perhaps the occasional untranslated French sentence.) "

" This is an excellent book, well-written, that gives an interesting twist on the US and world ,at an era after all the oil in the world is used up, and after the False Tribulation, when the government and the Dominion of Jesus Christ rule,hand in hand. "

" Another view of the world gone wrong a couple of hundred years from now. This one due to global warming. "

" Parts of the story were interesting but too often the story lost and contradicted itself. "

" not really sci-fi as it takes place in a post technology world. Sort of preachy, combining religious fundamentalist take over and feudal system america "

" meh. I enjoyed some of the futuristic/sci-fi elements of this book, but found it to be a tedious war book. I guess I don't care for those. "

" Hugo award winner? You've got to be kidding. This is a wandering book, in which the conflict keeps tapering off. In places, the conflict peters out and the characters have nothing terrible important to do. At those points, the book is terribly slow. After that happened a few times, I gave up. "

" Read this quickly while in LA and travelling home. It was less good then I had hoped principally because the characters (other then the narrator) were weaker and the plot thinner then I might have hoped. "

" ABANDONED. Read Fitzpatrick's War instead of this horrific Liberalgeddon terror fantasy. "

" I've enjoyed many of Bob Wilson's novels but not this one. Too long, too ponderous, too full of obvious parallels. The new SPIN novel should be better. Gave up on this one after a hundred pages or so. "

" I couldn't finish it - it was just too tedious. I got about halfway through and the characters and the plot failed to entice me to continue reading. "

" I got about a quarter of the way through it before I had to return it to the library. Well written future 1800s-tech world, but it feels like a boys' tale, at least the first two sections. "

" A fantastic blend of futurism with a solid dose of 19th century tone. It's a really interesting combo and as a character story succeeds beautifully. "

" Quite a well-written blend of an American future dystopia and Civil War perspectives. An enjoyable read, although the closing chapters seemed a little less well-handled than the rest of the book. "

" My copy of this ebook was made available as part of the 2010 Hugo Voter's Packet as a part of my membership to the 2010 WorldCon "

" Read this quickly while in LA and travelling home. It was less good then I had hoped principally because the characters (other then the narrator) were weaker and the plot thinner then I might have hoped. "

" At first I was like "What's this? A Waterworld-type future dystopia only set on land instead?" This was a surprisingly gripping tale. Am looking forward to discussing it at book club. "

" Another excellent book by Robert Charles Wilson. "

" There's not a link that says "gave up halfway through" so I had to mark it as read...but I totally gave up halfway through. "

" Thoroughly enjoyable, lighthearted and old-timey story about the big bad future. "

" So far I am intrigued by the concept of life after the oil age. Makes you think. "