Altered Carbon | Book Club

December 8, 2025

 

So this was a Book Club choice. It was ok. It felt overly complicated... or the technology and enhancement drugs the characters all seemed to take were just confusing... or that could be my problem. IDK. For modern "Tech Noir" or whatever the F this is... it was entertaining. Perhaps a bit TOO sexy at times, maybe. I'm no prude but I prefer my noir to be a bunch of sexy build up followed by a smirk of a scene with people smoking. Guess I'm just old fashioned that way. Or I just feel dirty when its described in stark terms.

I also started the TV show. I love old boy in it. Dude from The Killing. The show already seems to suffer from the above comments though. 

The other thing about it... its written in first person but the style is `First person as if he were the third person.` As a narrator he really doesn't have much of a style. At least not a style that necessitates the first person. It does seem most books these days are first person so maybe his editors just did a find and replace for `He` and updated them all to `I`. 

Anyhow, halfway enjoyable.