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title: "The Kraken Project: A Novel (Wyman Ford Series Book 4)"
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# The Kraken Project: A Novel (Wyman Ford Series Book 4)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Unsatisfactory
  

*by B***O on Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2017*

Kraken provides for a good read. But, all things considered, it leaves the reader (me, at least) unsatisfied. On a number of points.First of all, the story. What starts as a high strung techno-thriller peters down to a lackluster track-the-bad-guy action story. That the bad  guy (girl in this case) is a fugitive AI program raises the interest for a while, unfortunately, the bad-girl-AI very fast becomes a not so interesting good girl, ending its run in a syrupy do-good emphasis…Next, Wyman is depicted in a very two-dim way, lacking depth. This is so even more than in previous installments … he is almost one-dimensional, here!Then, the whole pursuit of the fugitive is told mostly from the fugitive's perspective, depriving the reader of any catching human interest angle on the potentially drama-loaded Wyman-Melissa couple …The presence and actions of the foul algo-traders, no doubt intended to up the thrills, has a very contrived taste, and fails.This novel, just like Spielberg's AI flick, are reformulations of the Pinocchio fable …And the title is truly a misnomer. A much more appropriate title would have been "Dorothy".

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    Poor Writing Almost Ruins This One
  

*by T***H on Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2014*

Before I get highly critical of Mr. Preston, let me start with the big, big positive: he is one of the best idea men I’ve come across in recent years.  Even though it’s been a number of years since I read his novel Impact, the idea that forms the basis of that novel and the images of the holes through the earth and moon haven’t left me.  The same cannot be said of the ideas and images of some of the “highbrow” books I’ve read over the same period.In The Kraken Project Mr. Preston once again uses a great idea, even if it’s not quite as original as his previous ones.  Here we have the story of a woman, Melissa Shepherd, who develops a strong AI program called Dorothy for NASA meant to control an exploratory mission to Kraken Mare on Saturn’s moon Titan.  Dorothy, however, is more than she at first appears and jumps from her NASA computer out into the world.  Havoc ensues.So, if Mr. Preston works with these solid ideas, what is the problem?  Frankly, his writing never lives up to his ideas.  Most of my complaints about Impact and Blasphemy were comparatively minor and did not greatly affect my overall reaction to these books.  Here, however, the writing was not even close to living up to the idea.  In short, Mr. Preston’s skills just are not sufficient to convincingly convey the “thought processes” of Dorothy.If I’m going to be brutally honest, the first page of this book is so laughably poor that I nearly put the book down.  Instead, I charged on and managed to push down my disdain every time Dorothy thought or spoke.  To be fair, things improve as Dorothy matures and, when dealing with the human characters, he fares much better (with the exception of Jacob, a fourteen-year-old boy.  He is surprisingly weak is presenting us with a twenty-first century teenager).  The rest of the plot is basic thriller stuff at which Mr. Preston has plenty of solid experience and this works well enough, if not spectacularly.  The ending is a bit of a stretch but something for which I am willing to suspend my disbelief.In the end, this ranks low on my list of thrillers.  Still, I expect that the ideas about AI Mr. Preston presents here and his images of the trip to Titan will stay with me.  For that, I can forgive a lot.  And I definitely am looking forward to whatever clever idea he has up his sleeve for next time.  I just hope it comes across better that this one.

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    Off switch anyne?
  

*by D***J on Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2015*

I wanted to like this story and there is one thing about it I really liked, but a lot I didn’tI really expect more from Preston regarding three dimensional characters, but everyone here comes out of the technothriller playbook: Evil capitalist, unimaginative FBI agents, megalomaniacal politicians and principles who can’t stand or respect each other, until they do.The AI threat is credible, but raises the same old questions: Why isn’t there a kill code, off switch, cut off, prime directive, three laws of robotics?  These are NASA computer geeks, you’d think they’d not make such bone headed mistakes.Dorothy, the AI is supposed to think about a billion times faster than we do and spends most of her time waiting for the humans to make their next move.  She keeps making all these threats, but still lets people out fox her. She decides pretty early on that people are a threat and a waste of space, why doesn’t she launch a nuke or twelve?Computer files can be copied, why doesn’t Dorothy copy herself into a couple of million servers?Now there is something I kinda loved about this book.  I really liked seeing the internet from the inside.  That was very imaginative and fun.

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