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20/08/2019 ( )

For one of Sawyer's more well-known titles, I found this Flashforward curiously unsatisfying. I loved the scientific and philosophical points conveyed. But overall, neither the characters or plot grabbed me the way most of his novels do. ( )

I hate to say this.... because I know I'll catch a lot of flak for it, but.... this is one case where the TV series really is better than the book.

This is not to say that the book is bad. It's sorta average, a quick read with a lot of physics made very easily understandable by the layman, which is a feat in and of itself. (Although, I'll admit that I read some of the more interesting bits of physics to my physics-obsessed boyfriend and was rewarded with a rant of epic proportions about how it was all fuzzed. And honestly, a lot of it was.)

The climax itself was the biggest anti-climax I've ever read. Well, maybe not the biggest, but the book just took every bit of suspense available and just flattened it.

So, in summation, if you're curious where the series came from, go ahead and read it. It's fast. Just ...get it from the library or something. ( )

A good first act, but you get the sense that this was a short story or novella that was dragged out a bit. I didn't really care about the murder plot.

Also, the interesting bit with Cheung--I could swear it was an homage to Baxter and Clarke's The Light of Other Days, but Sawyer's novel actually came out a year before that. ( )

Enjoyable science fiction tale of near future. Written in 1999, set in 2009 with an event that took place in 2030. Explores issue of if you know what the future holds can it be changed? ( )