This was one of the most disjointed audio performances I’ve ever heard, and the story, while holding a couple of interesting ideas, was barely coherent. The book spent most of its time glorifying and prescribing terrorism, violence and communism as ways to save civilization and drive change to a supposed glorious future. I suffered through it, hoping at some point that I’d find the brilliance others had cited, and regret I’ll never get these hours of my life back. Some of the ideas on geo-engineering and finance seemed to be thought through and maybe even researched, but there was not enough of this to hold the book together or to make it worthwhile. The voice talent wasn’t all terrible but some of the accents were cartoonish and at several points it was difficult to understand which characters were narrating.
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