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A 3.5 rating. An artificial intelligence story using a computer dating/matching service as a base. Two couples matched by the computer at Eden unexpectedly commit suicide. An outside psychologist, Dr. Lash, is hired by the company to investigate. The reclusive founder, Richard Silver, is distraught at the deaths. As Dr. Lash investigates, he gets into the inner workings of Eden and its computer, Liza. The computer is "intelligent" and can communicate with its creator, Silver. Tara, lash, Mauchly...
I really wish Eden was a real thing! Okay, so, maybe I saw the ending coming from a mile away. And maybe I wasn't a huge fan of the audiobook narrator. But the story pulled me in anyway. I got so into the story that I ended up wishing someone would really make a company like Eden. It's possible right? Things would be ssoooo simple! Anyway, read it! It's suspenseful, exciting, frustrating (a bit predictable) but I couldn't put it down!!! That's why it gets 5 stars from me. I'm recommending it to
Well... read it the seccond time around - and still think it is an OK read. Not the best book out there, not the worst. It might even be a really decent book for a nice sunny, lazy day on the beach, if you are into that kind of fiction. Granted, there is heaps of psychological mumbojumbo, one dimensional characters that react purely to their environs without any motivation/instincts for themselves and loads of weird computer-science-we-have-to-explain-something-or-make-an-escape-possible reality...
I liked this book very much; but Lincoln Child is one of my favorite authors. Anything written by Child I would like, even if he was to explain the science of tiddlywinks, I would still be interested.OK, about this story I just read. "Death Match" is a good read, one that I could not put down. It was a book that talked to me, as if the story was written just for me to enjoy.A brief synopsis of this book: Match-making is big business and Eden Inc. is a good example; for a sum of $25,000, you will...
I generally pass on novels with multiple authors. However, the Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child partnership is a mystery to me. Together, their trashy airport thrillers are actually not bad at all for the genre. Yet on their own, these guys deserve a special section in the Dan Brown wing of the Museum of God-Awful American Writing. I assumed after Douglas Preston's word-poop "The Codex" (listened to this driving up to Yosemite) that Lincoln Child was the decent author in the Preston/Child partnersh...
i was hoping for some action with edmund wyre, but i guess he did his bitp98: "you didn't bring along any mechanical devices, did you?" mauchly asked. "voice recorder, pda, anything like that?"
It picked up at the end but the first chunk was just so slow I had trouble getting into it. Plus listening to the audiobook made the scenes with all the number data extremely annoying.
Predictable. Agonizing slow plot. When done, I felt like I wasted my time. Unsatisfying. I figured out who did the murders very early in the book, way before learning the motive. This is a techno-thriller. The author uses 1980s computer technology, garbed in 1990s language, and it's clear he has read about some AI stuff, but has a shallow understanding of AI and neural networks. He throws the buzz words around in a semi reasonable fashion, but the gaps are humorous. Lots of standard techno adven...
I listened to the audio version of this. I thought it was pretty good for the genre. I had an inkling early on as to the nature of the killer, but a good number of red herrings made me doubt my conclusion for a while. *** SPOILER****My one big gripe with the plot was the fact that Dr. Lash ignored the disruptions and weird things going on with his accounts; that seemed like a pretty big clue. After one or two of these things happened, it seemed extremely suspicious and he kind of blew it off - e...
Eden is making the perfect matches for couples. The matches are so happy others are willing the pay the $25,000 for the match. Eden checks all areas of a clients live, health, money, jobs, history, etc. Eden is run by Silver who lives alone with a computer named, Liza in the penthouse of the Eden building. When the perfect matches commit suicide, Christopher Lash, a psychiatrist is called in to find out why the couples committed suicide. Is a murderer coming after the couples? A surprising end t...
