Woken Furies
by Richard K. Morgan (Del Rey, 2005); audiobook read by William Dufris (Tantor Audio, 2006)
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Morgan’s great anti-hero and brutish cyberpunk imaginings are lessened here by wallowing writerly indulgence, gratuitous, cringeworthy sex scenes and a narrator who guesses at pronunciations and whose hard-boiled American take on Takeshi Kovacs entirely disregards the character’s Japanese / Eastern European ethnicity.