a great book. I've started going back to a lot of books I bought years ago but have just not got around to reading for one reason or another.
I've had medical issues that have prevented me from being able to concentrate through most of pre and post COVID too.
This book dragged me back to a time many years ago when the Da Vinci Code and Dan Brown was at his peak.
I love science v theology, free will v fate stories, Faith is such a strong thing for people so reading a book like this that is chocful of potentially plausible ways of coming up with answers to some of our greatest questions had me enthralled at times.
Twisting it up with a Dan Brown like megalomaniac, sciencey thriller ideas and characters you want to know more about makes it worthwhile.
Despite it being published when Brown was in his pomp this stands on its own two feet sorry Jake, doesn't have as much info dumping ruining it's pacing and hasn't aged at all.
It could be on the best seller list now, Ideas are what it's built upon, The use of light replacing microchips for computers is an amazing idea for instance, And I love stories with great ideas at it's heart,
Give it a bash, Definitely something different A pesar de que al principio va lento y creo que le sobra la mitad de la primera parte se que debo tolerarlo dado que es donde explican y van atando la historia, me gustó el tema que trata pero no me gusto que al final todo volviera a ser como antes y solo unos cuantos privilegiados aprendieran la leccion.
Creo que habla sobre una gran verdad que es la redefinición de libre albedrio y como lo vemos en estas epocas, tanto si se cree o no pero para no extenderme he de decir que solo le diestrellas porque creo que la historia daba para más y que no era necesario un final "feliz".
Un buen Thriller , lleno de emociones y suspenso con una pizca de amor, la historia es entretenida y te lleva a diferentes emociones mientras lees cada pagina de el libro , sin embargo para mi el final es un poco flojo.
amazing story very cool concepts with cool religious commentary and imagery! however it loses points for the ableist cliche of 'evil guy is disfigured and everyone is grossed out by how he looks' there was some cool body horror at the end as his skin is like burning off but that still couldve happened with the same effect without making a whole point throughout the story about his disfigurement
overall very good book tho : O carte conspirationista cu intriga clasica: o chestie care va schimba din temelii religia, care pune tototdata in pericol omenirea.
Superb construita, afli abia la final de tot in ce consta acel mare secret, Bine, ramai si cu cateva semne de intrebare, caci finalul, spre deosebire de alte carti, nu e atat de limpede.
Dar fix astai farmecul sau,
Revin pe blog cu o parere detaliata : Mia placut, este interesanta si captivanta, Finalul mi sa parut insa cam tras de par, sitelink wordpress. com/ This book is a unique take on good and evil, and most definitely a unique take on religion and the future of technology.
I wasn't sure what I was getting into but in the end, the for lack of a better word this book was unique and interesting.
I wasn't sure I was gonna be able to finish this but I did and ya know, I am glad.
This book got me into reading, loved it, thank you Michael Cordy This one worked for me mostly at the Horror level and as such I can recommend it easily.
Horror aspects was what I welcomed the most, Probably partially because of my own past and dreams of my deceased mother when I was, In some of these dreams she kept placing various mementos for me to find, In other my father was trying to resurrect her by the means of various intravenous systems of multicolored liquids, Sometimes my father succeeded and we had a perfect reunion, accompanied with pleasant dinner and evening with my mom, In my dreams she often got resurrected and in majority of them she was halfrotten but it was not unpleasant to look at her.
Rather appealing. When I woke up from these dreams I thought of them as of some interesting means of communication, They weren't nightmares at least not for the always Horrorthirsty essence of my soul, I saw these dreams as a goodwritten Horror/Drama, dealing with personal trauma of my childhood, They felt warm and reassuring, And something of this I found here pressed in the paperback edition of The Lucifer Code,
The core of this book revealed itself to be a real pageturner despite my hatred towards the absolutely dumbifying force of organized religion.
Perhaps it was exactly the force that drove me to read on I have to mention though that this work is far from being religionheavy and I thank the God author for that! Anyway my own views on dealing with the religion aren't that extreme but I really welcomed the ideas provided here.
A nice, entertaining and sometimes REALLY horrifying book, My brand of Horror and Suspense, Appreciated! Dr. Miles Fleming Milo has developed a machine that can read human brain waves, His brother's voice that comesminutes after he is pronounced clinically dead, changes everything,
He meets Amber, the surviving conjoined twin, who's other half Arial lives in her dreams and memory, Could part of her brain still be Arial's
Brought together by a scheming scientist / philanthropist who tries to use them to prove humanity's darkest fears.
. the existence of heaven and hell, . What will the combination of technical brilliance and tormented souls reveal
as quoted by the "Punch" An intriguing, thought provoking finale that will leave you wrestling with a horrifically credible religious dilemma.
. . thank God it's only fiction!" Me ha gustado pero no tanto como el gen, Original en su realización, la historia siempre mezclando la religión con la ciencia ficción, Es entretenido pero se me ha hecho en algunos momentos más largo, Me esperaba quizás más por lo que he leído de él, Needed to read just absolute trash, and this was perfect, Reads a lot like the "Da Vinci Code", Not wild about the ableism with the main villain I have to say, Parts of this were surprisingly gory, Worth two pounds from a second hand bookshop and then put back on the shelf after I finished it, Irgendwie seltsam es scheint zuerst ein normaler Thriller zu sein, Eine neue Religion ist entstanden und hat sich bald zur stärksten und mächtigsten der Welt entwickelt, unter anderem durch die Unterstützung einer Firma, die über die modernsten und leistungsfähigsten optischen Computer verfügt ja, es spielt leicht in der Zukunft.
Ihr Bestreben ist es, die Seele der Menschen dingfest zu machen, und dafür benötigt sie Sterbende, die im Moment des Todes analysiert werden können.
Und dafür werden eben jene Todkranken auch schon mal entführt und geziehlt umgebracht,
Bald wird aber klar, daß da noch mehr hintersteckt, und das tatsächliche Ausmaß des "Seelenprojekts" wird erst im Laufe der Zeit etwas klarer.
Und auch der unterstützende Firmenchef hat ganz andere Überlegungen im Kopf als es zunächst scheint,
Als Thriller war die Geschichte nicht schlecht erzählt, allerdings fand ich das Ende sehr enttäuschend, darum gibt es nur zwei Sterne, obwohl Cordy ein paar interessante Fragen zu Moral und Religion aufwirft.
This was a weird, interesting little book, La ciencia ficción no es precisamente un género que me guste, y, aunque la trama no me haya encantado, le doyestrellas porque es de lectura àgil, lo que es de agradecer cuando no te gusta el género.
One of my all time favourite books, Definitely the one I keep coming back to every couple of year, Nail biting, edge of your seat thriller, What happens to us when we die
Oblivion, Or so believes Dr Miles Fleming, a brilliant, young neuroscientist who has developed a device capable of reading human brainwaves.
But when his own brother contacts him after being certified dead for six whole minutes, Fleming wonders if he's got it all wrong.
His search for the truth uncovers a terrifying religious conspiracy to stage the most ambitious experiment the world has ever seen to prove beyond doubt the existence of a heaven or a hell.
As the world awaits the final judgement, Fleming must confront his own demons to save not only his own soul but that of all humanity.
THE LUCIFER CODE pits the faith of religion against the certainty of science in a heartstopping thriller which explores our deepest fears.
Interesting concept around religion and faith, Enjoyable read It took me a while to finish this book with the first half a slog to get through it was only sheer stubbornness and, I admit, a tiny smidge of curiosity about the final concluding moment that got me through it.
By the time I actually wanted to read it I was half way through, and while the second half was decisively better it was not so good as to make the effort worthwhile.
So what exactly didn't I like about it
Predictability Certain elements of this book were highly predictable, such as the "required" and obvious romance, the sheer naivety of certain characters, and more.
And when there were twists they were rather more akin to "uh, really" moments,
Characterisation The characters in this book lack something, They're not quite fleshed out, they seem wedged into molds that they don't quite fit, and it is clear they are mostly there to serve their purpose.
Hero, heroine, romantic interest, villain, etc, etc. I have a bone to pick with Mr Cordy about his villain, because frankly, . . uh, really That was probably one of the worst things about this story,
Subtly AKA, there was none,
The suspense AKA, for me there was none, Oops I'm sure there was meant to
be some,
The Endling ahem I mean, the ending To be frank the ending was, I suppose, your very typical "it's over, but is it" moment that horror movies have a tendency to do depending on the current trend, year, budget, etc.
I honestly feel I'd have been more satisfied without that ending, and I wouldn't have felt beaten over the head by a point that had, I felt, already been made.
And finally, the writing which was, at times, just plain bad, Peaked around the middle, I guess, which seems to be the part Cordy wanted to actually write,
Basically the concept was interesting, but the execution could have done with a little more work,
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