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Disclaimer: I ended up buying this book at a B&N store and came to Amazon to try and buy the rest since the store didn't have the next books in the series. Is this book and the others worth $12-$16? no. I still liked it enough to be planning to spend $27 on the next 3. All the recent reviews were negative and made some very valid points. The results of science in this book are quite plausible but anytime the authors attempt to explain anything in more detail it becums apparent that they have no interest in doing even the most basic of research. One of them was the chance that since all walls are porous membranes and not stable structures since that was cheaper and there was only a 1 in 349,120,004 chance of it cutting you in half by accident and this was the equivalent of winning the lottery 3 times in a row so no one cared. The chance of winning the power-ball is 1 in 175,223,510 and the mega-millions top prize is 1 in 258,890,850. In a population of 40 billion that would mean 10,000+ people a day would be killed by walking from their bedroom to their bathroom, or out their front door, or getting into a car or entering a building. I think many people would think about it a lot of the time and not be very happy. Plus it clearly says later in the book poor people have to make do with old non-changing houses like 5 bedroom victorian because they cannot afford to have changeable walls so where is the consistency? Basically their editor did not do a proper job.

Now that I'm done bashing the books faults I want to talk about what I liked about it. For me this is a book about trying to take several basic, primal human traits and build a world and story to show them off. I think they did a wonderful job of doing so with self interest and a desire for safety and a not so good job with a desire for freedom, greed and the ability to take the best ideas and over time allow the few who desire power over other humans to corrupt them to their own advantage.

It is a good book about powerful human traits left me eager for more. It is it clumsily written and badly edited but the underlying ideas and how they made me think were powerful and wonderful. I understand how people compare this writing to Heinlein (at least in the early years) because he wrote stories that had at the core a facet of the human condition. This story is also written around the same core and so the comparison is valid in that sense. Maybe if the authors had had the same ability to hone their craft with short stories for years first or a competent editor this would have been a much better written book.

I read the whole thing in one sitting and agree that the first half was much more coherent than the last half which seemed to forget where the authors were going at times but I really enjoyed the experience it gave me. If your looking for a book that makes you think about our present and future this should fit the bill. If that is not something that interests you do not get it.


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The Unincorporated Man Dani Kollin Eytan Kollin 9780765318992 Books Reviews

This book is about one person, who believes in himself unwavering, against what society as a whole and even his dearest friends are convinced of and have been living for a very long time. At high personal costs and risk of losing his love, his friends, his power and his wealth he stands to what he personally believes is a fundamental and nonnegotional truthyou cannot be owned by some own else and you can chose your path of destiny yourself.
Imagine yourself being thrown into a situation where you think No, this is not right! What would you do? Everybody you encounter is trying to convince you that you are wrong, that you are not o.k. and you should change your ways of thinking and acting. What if you are at risk to lose everything if you stay true to yourself?
It helps, of course, if the protagonist of the book is of strong character, is used to power, prestige and wealth. Because of monetary independence you can afford to speak your mind. It doesn't matter, what Justin used to do in his former life, it is only important that he was a wealthy industrialist and was arguably used to confer on the highest levels of government and industry.
What the book demonstrates is that it is very, very difficult to have a personal conviction and to hold on to that truth against all odds. The book also demonstrates that behind the perfect facade of economic wellbeing lurks the demon of fascism the ruling of the world by powerful companies who strieve to be monopolists. The book shows a world, where only the economic useful person has a certain degree of personal freedom, all other "useless eaters" can be shoved around and discarded without impunity. This fits my personal definition of fascism.
I would like to address a different point often mentioned by critics. There have been a couple of important books in the last years. Important, because they want to tell an important message and important, because they formulate the political Zeitgeist into a story. Many of those books are written poorly and have been rejected because of that by intelligent readers who should have been the natural and intended target group of the author. In my opinion the message is more important than style. If the message is important, don't dismiss the book because of poor craftsmanship. I would consider that as a sign of a distinguished and experienced reader who is always on the lookout to learn something new.
Disclaimer I ended up buying this book at a B&N store and came to to try and buy the rest since the store didn't have the next books in the series. Is this book and the others worth $12-$16? no. I still liked it enough to be planning to spend $27 on the next 3. All the recent reviews were negative and made some very valid points. The results of science in this book are quite plausible but anytime the authors attempt to explain anything in more detail it becums apparent that they have no interest in doing even the most basic of research. One of them was the chance that since all walls are porous membranes and not stable structures since that was cheaper and there was only a 1 in 349,120,004 chance of it cutting you in half by accident and this was the equivalent of winning the lottery 3 times in a row so no one cared. The chance of winning the power-ball is 1 in 175,223,510 and the mega-millions top prize is 1 in 258,890,850. In a population of 40 billion that would mean 10,000+ people a day would be killed by walking from their bedroom to their bathroom, or out their front door, or getting into a car or entering a building. I think many people would think about it a lot of the time and not be very happy. Plus it clearly says later in the book poor people have to make do with old non-changing houses like 5 bedroom victorian because they cannot afford to have changeable walls so where is the consistency? Basically their editor did not do a proper job.

Now that I'm done bashing the books faults I want to talk about what I liked about it. For me this is a book about trying to take several basic, primal human traits and build a world and story to show them off. I think they did a wonderful job of doing so with self interest and a desire for safety and a not so good job with a desire for freedom, greed and the ability to take the best ideas and over time allow the few who desire power over other humans to corrupt them to their own advantage.

It is a good book about powerful human traits left me eager for more. It is it clumsily written and badly edited but the underlying ideas and how they made me think were powerful and wonderful. I understand how people compare this writing to Heinlein (at least in the early years) because he wrote stories that had at the core a facet of the human condition. This story is also written around the same core and so the comparison is valid in that sense. Maybe if the authors had had the same ability to hone their craft with short stories for years first or a competent editor this would have been a much better written book.

I read the whole thing in one sitting and agree that the first half was much more coherent than the last half which seemed to forget where the authors were going at times but I really enjoyed the experience it gave me. If your looking for a book that makes you think about our present and future this should fit the bill. If that is not something that interests you do not get it.