Wrapped up the first book after much struggle. Am I crazy for finding it extremely poorly written? Writing aside, the characters suck, the motivations suck, and the scenario building feels like it was tossed together by a 12 year old. I don’t get the hype. Everything is paper thin. The fictional science aspect is the most compelling part but as a cohesive whole it fails to land.
That’s because it’s great!
OK maybe it’s not like objectively great, like in a literary sense, but me and my friends really enjoyed it for its unique voice and fun mystery.
It also spawned so many great conversations between the other programmers I know.