Thanks for the additional info. I might well read it the rest of the way when I'm finished with a few other books I've got on the go.
And actually, looking into it, I'm guessing that hacking scene was taken from a real incident in 2005. I think it may just be a case where the author knows whenabouts it's set but doesn't think about how his cues are coming off to an uninformed reader.
That first attack scene was actually where the book started to lose me. It may have been fairly early, but to me, it was still too late to radically shift my perception of the setting for no discernible reason. It also epitomizes what I think is the author's main weakness. Wilson is very good at writing engagingly in the first person present, but while that works for immediate narration like in the first section, he doesn't alter it to fit other media. You get a certain amount of leeway with fictional people being much more eloquent than real people, but there's a limit to my believability when people are giving a spoken police statement or legal testimony as though they're penning a thriller.
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Date: 2011-10-26 09:29 pm (UTC)And actually, looking into it, I'm guessing that hacking scene was taken from a real incident in 2005. I think it may just be a case where the author knows whenabouts it's set but doesn't think about how his cues are coming off to an uninformed reader.
That first attack scene was actually where the book started to lose me. It may have been fairly early, but to me, it was still too late to radically shift my perception of the setting for no discernible reason. It also epitomizes what I think is the author's main weakness. Wilson is very good at writing engagingly in the first person present, but while that works for immediate narration like in the first section, he doesn't alter it to fit other media. You get a certain amount of leeway with fictional people being much more eloquent than real people, but there's a limit to my believability when people are giving a spoken police statement or legal testimony as though they're penning a thriller.