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my brother suggested this to me. we have very different tastes and capacities to process literary works (the previous thing he suggested to me was the jack reacher series which i enjoyed in a sickly, guilty manner: i believe the whole series to be a great example of «trash lit» not dissimilar to an addictive drug, primitive template-based mass-produced texts that exist only to addict minds to basic emotions and pump money up the chain). the «lonesome dove» seemed different so this made me curious.

anyway, i am now listening to the phenix books' reproduction of 1992 audio recording by lee horsley (whose name is completely foreign to me, born in ussr). i'm 5% in, and it's like… listening to an endless rob swanson's («parks and recreation») monologue :-)

@jonn i love niche for not being mainstream ;-) having said that, however, i tend to prefer «vulgar» genres: sci-fi, (urban) fantasy, etc… genres, that are the opposite of niche. which naturally (niche, obscure authors in mainstream, vulgar genres) limits the choice of reading material.

anyway, i'm real surprized someone found me here ;-)

intellectually it's an interesting glimpse into near future and an attempt at not new but not overused either thought at «what if we as humanity are superceded by someone». emotionally though the story complitely failed to engage me, i could not care for any of the characters; we just didn't «click» together.

generic drivel

in a bookstore, i usually avoid anything with «patterson» on the cover because i've long since learned this would be a lazily written generic thriller without real value. sadly, «eruption» in not any different. what a shame that michael crichton's idea and work got transformed into this pulp drivel.

idk, this is definitely not crighton, this is typical patterson — template-based conveyor-produced writing, shallow and forgettable, generic thriller.

dropped at 82%. this just never «clicked» for me.