Altered Carbon sat on my night stand for just over two years. A very good friend of mine recommended it to me years ago and I bought it on sale and started it right away. The first think I realized is that this was not a read before bed book. It required more attention to detail to fully appreciate it and I really liked that. Unfortunately, that meant that it languished on the night stand for a long, long time. I finished it a couple […]
“The past is relevant only as data.”
One of the great things about joining a reading community like The Cannonball Read is that I’ve really broadened my reading horizons. I’ve tried genres that I would never had read before, with a lot of positive results. Altered Carbon is a book that I never would have read before joining up with this group. Sure, I would have watched the Netflix show, but I wouldn’t have really cared about the source material, saying something like “that’s not really in my wheelhouse.” We were watching […]
I prefer the screen adaptation
When borrowing ebooks from your local library, always double check the publishing format before you set it on your hold list. Discovering Altered Carbon only came in EPUB and was therefore inaccessible on my Kindle was not fun. But that’s neither here nor there. In between the time when I put this on my hold list and the time I finally got it, I watched the full first season of the show on Netflix and I really enjoyed it! It’s definitely not one of their higher-tier […]
Not as enraptured the second time around
I want to say I was introduced to Altered Carbon around 2007. I do remember that by the time it came into my hands the entire trilogy was out so I was able to blitz through all three. At the time I loved it and couldn’t put the books down. When I heard that Netflix was doing an adaptation, I was pretty excited from the remembered enjoyment of reading it. Then a blog talked about the problems of any adaptation to the book. Namely that a guy […]