Michael Stutz

I remember reading such classics as The Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby, where you actually can feel the life and world around a character changing, the character changing with it. This is one of those books. In 50 years, or so, when my children's children are reading about the internet age, and how we came to be such a society, they will read this and understand. Trust me, I claim this book as my new favourite novel, of all time, and one I dare people to read, and not feel a quintessential novel of the ages coming off the page.… (mehr)

I got a copy of this book through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. Somehow, its algorithm looked into my past and realized that I was once a modemer and that parts of this novel might click with me. However, while Stutz can bring back the era and write some compelling characters, he often gets lost in a lyrical narrative style that does not do his novel any favors. Still, if you can get past a sprinkling of purple prose, this book is worth checking out if you have some memories of life before the World Wide Web. Not strongly recommended, but it did help scratch an itch I didn't even know I had...

[full review here: http://spacebeer.blogspot.com/2013/05/circuits-of-wind-legend-of-net-age.html ]… (mehr)