Rule 34 Audiobook

" Enjoyable light near-future extrapolation. Take 3D printing, add in a little spam, and a splash of artificial intelligence and you have a decent sci-fi crime drama to play with. Like much of Stross' stuff, it's more of the light snack style of science fiction: quick, easy, and fun to read. "

" Bailed out about two chapters in. The writing style drove me insane "

" If I could, I'd give it a 2.5. I liked some parts, others were a slog for me and I didn't care for the ending. "

" I loved all the little nerdy details and shout-outs to the memes that obviously should be in a book titled rule 34 "

" I just couldn't get past the explicit sexuality and language to give this story the time to understand if the ideas were brilliant or not...DNF. "

" This was okay. But the main part of the story was good. It is written in the first person which is a bit weird at first but you get used to it. "

" A clever little sci fi novel that only needs to extrapolate a few small steps in order to end up someplace recognizable and still foreign. To really enjoy it you probably have to have at least a passing knowledge of internet popular culture circa 2010. "

" almost lost me in the first quarter. To many parts with too much dialect playing and non-connection. ANd the idea was pushed. But came together interestingly and okay - though not a great read. "

" I normally love this kind of hard sci-fi novel, but this one never cohered for me. Disparate characters and unwieldy terminology failed to engage. I also disliked the use of second person. "

" Having all the dialog in Second person is really obnoxious. Could not enjoy "

" Well-done techno-thriller. The futurism is not as interesting as in Halting State, but a good read. "

" A good book poorly executed. I despise reading books in the 2nd person even if they're choose-your-own-adventure books. I had a very hard time concentrating on it, and I couldn't become attached to the main character enough to care about what happened to her because of the way the book was written. "

" Didn't know going into this that it was a sequel to halting state. It follows one of the minor characters in that book through another mystery. Probably not quite as good as halting state, but still pretty fun. "

" This book goes so overboard with jargon, slang, and dialect that I felt like I was struggling with a new foreign language and gave up after 30 pages. "

" Weird. Written in 2nd person. Took ages to get into. Not my cup of tea. "

" I never read SiFi so when this one was a book club pick I was not happy but I loved it. Fast read, lots of twist and turns and first person took a chapter to get used to but what fun! I wonder if I would like any of his other books? "