Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN EXCITING SERIES FROM NETFLIX • The shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning in this “tour de force of genre-bending, a brilliantly realized exercise in science fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.
Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats “existence” as something that can be bought and sold.
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.
Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats “existence” as something that can be bought and sold.
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Post modernish cyberpunk with detective plot and ofc... sexual, NSFW contents.
Ngl, I love the plot.
Unique, where people got to have another body in the same soul (resleeved) but what makes it unique the writer bother to put religion on cons on this matter.
It's interesting.
The stories made me wonder all the way to the end.
And let me tell you, I watch the series first before I read the book and they had a very big differences so it's kinda confusing and made me wonder what would happen in the book.
This book had a lots of cons with this and that, and yes... I realized this book is NOT for everyone.
This book has sooo much explicit contents especially about the sex scenes and not forgetting the torture scene.
Ngl, I don't enjoy it either.
The sex scene with Miriam is absolutely UNNECESSARY. No chemistry at all. Just because the chemical made you horny? Like... lol.
And how Takeshi Kovacs saw a lady and his boner hard. I mean like... ok.... sure. But... why did u must put it?
But overall I love the plot, the stories and with Reileen Kawahara thing.
Where Rei supposed to be Tak's sister in the series but in the book Rei is 100% the villain here.
So yea... it's fun to experience something different.
It's pretty enjoyable.
But I need 2 or 3 days for "resting and not read days" moment after I read this book because of the explicits things.
But okay.
I enjoy it.
Ngl, I love the plot.
Unique, where people got to have another body in the same soul (resleeved) but what makes it unique the writer bother to put religion on cons on this matter.
It's interesting.
The stories made me wonder all the way to the end.
And let me tell you, I watch the series first before I read the book and they had a very big differences so it's kinda confusing and made me wonder what would happen in the book.
This book had a lots of cons with this and that, and yes... I realized this book is NOT for everyone.
This book has sooo much explicit contents especially about the sex scenes and not forgetting the torture scene.
Ngl, I don't enjoy it either.
The sex scene with Miriam is absolutely UNNECESSARY. No chemistry at all. Just because the chemical made you horny? Like... lol.
And how Takeshi Kovacs saw a lady and his boner hard. I mean like... ok.... sure. But... why did u must put it?
But overall I love the plot, the stories and with Reileen Kawahara thing.
Where Rei supposed to be Tak's sister in the series but in the book Rei is 100% the villain here.
So yea... it's fun to experience something different.
It's pretty enjoyable.
But I need 2 or 3 days for "resting and not read days" moment after I read this book because of the explicits things.
But okay.
I enjoy it.
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