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Titanium Noir
- A Novel
- By: Nick Harkaway
- Narrated by: Davis Brooks
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 261
Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he’s called in to investigate a homicide at a local apartment, he’s surprised by the routineness of it all. But when he arrives on scene, Cal soon learns that the victim—Roddy Tebbit, an otherwise milquetoast techie—is well over seven feet tall. And although he doesn’t look a day over thirty, he is ninety-one years old. Tebbit is a Titan—one of this dystopian, near-future society’s genetically altered elites. And this case is definitely Cal’s thing.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A great book but is it a Harkaway novel?
- By Tyler on 06-08-23
- Titanium Noir
- A Novel
- By: Nick Harkaway
- Narrated by: Davis Brooks
A great book but is it a Harkaway novel?
Reviewed: 06-08-23
Titanium Noir is basically a Harkaway novel with the 'Harkaway' knob turned down to 3 and the 'have an actual plot that you stay focused on' knob turned up to 9. Which is both a good and bad thing. I think this would be a great introductory novel to his work but if you follow him it's probably unexpected. There are no 'pencilneck' diatribes here, the book will not randomly deviate for large portions of it or bounce around seemingly randomly - but it is an odd and interesting world (really just a city) that explores inhumanity through a murder case.
I really enjoyed it but would like to see him balance those knobs just a bit better.
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