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I bought Echo Detained for some reading variety. About half of what I read is sci-fi and fantasy, the other half is everything from nonfiction to westerns.

The story was too slow moving and pessimistic for me. The protagonist never attacks the people holding him prisoner, or tries to escape. He’s so docile, and goes along with his ordeal so willingly, that I never developed any sympathy for him. The subject matter is important, renditions, corporate prisons, the loss of freedom, but this attempt to shine some light on those subjects misses the mark.

I haven’t seen any of the movies or TV series from the following book series, but I did read the first books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Twilight, Outlander, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Long Earth, Divergent, etc. I sample a lot of first books, but I don’t read many complete series. (Who has that much time?) The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, and The Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) series by George Martin are a couple of exceptions.

I’ve read both of those series more than once. Both are five star. The first three books in The Song of Ice and Fire series are the best. The Game of Thrones TV series is also five star. The first two Hunger Games movies are five star, but then they got greedy and tried to make two movies out of the Mockingjay book when there was barely enough source material there for one movie. The first two books in The Hunger Games trilogy are better than third book, Mockingjay, and the first two movies, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, are better than the two Mockingjay movies.

Starship Troopers (1959) (not like the movie) by Robert A. Heinlein is the book that got me started in sci-fi adventures, and has remained one of my top five favorite military science fiction adventure stories for decades. The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman, Armor (1984) by John Steakley, Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card and Old Man’s War (2005) by John Scalzi, round out my top five military sci-fi adventure stories.

If you like any of the above you might also like Jack Campbell’s The Lost Fleet series, Taylor Anderson’s Destroyermen series, Andre Norton’s Star Soldiers, Andy Weir’s The Martian, or Frank Herbert’s Dune. Other sci-fi and fantasy authors I like include Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Paolo Bacigalupi, Arthur C. Clarke, Earnest Cline, Suzanne Collins, Abe Evergreen, Terry Goodkind, Hugh Howey, Robert Jordan, George Martin, Larry Niven, Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson and J.R.R. Tolkien.


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Echo Detained Joshua Daniel Cochran Veronica Liu Jesse Lightfoot Blodgett 9780976420330 Books Reviews

Almost dreadfully boring, uneventful as well as predictable.
A little-known corollary of Delasco's work, obscure even to those would-be-ascendent scholars who have labored through years of that Promethean-Limbo status known as AbD, is the Echo-Implosive-Singularity Corollary In many ways more properly treated as a conjecture than a corollary as its only known putative quasi-reliable claim to existence is an indecipherable scrawl on the margins of an aborted and abandoned dissertation tentatively titled 'Delasco's Lament, or The Echo Shift Within Doppler-Doppelgängers As Contemplated Over Danish At the Hungarian Pastry Shop' in which the conjectural claim is put forth, if only as a tentative hypothetical, that due to a kink in the chronosynclastic infundibulum, there will one day manifest a work titled 'Echo Detained' which will present one Joshua Daniel Cochran as the authorial doppelgänger of Ambrose Delasco, PhD.

Considerable (if muted) controversy has ensued within the frenetic academic virtual enclaves most devoted to teasing out Delasco's more subtle meanings from the yarn-like weavings of his thoughts as to whether this work ought be considered the work of Cochran, Delasco, or the virtual-bastard-virtual-soul-child of their shared electrons.

This debate, as most academic affairs, is expected to be long-winded, postural, and essentially pointless.

Echo Detained, fortunately, is out there, pointed, in every sense.

What if, though, Schrödinger's Cat were to blink?

~ Teufelsdrockh !!!
Although I am admittedly biased (Cochran is a close personal friend-way to go Joshua!), I think everyone aught to read this book. What with the messed up sensibilities that currently seem rampant in our society, and the all-to-common tendency for Americans to shrug off many of the atrocities perpetrated by the government in our name.

Cochran has created a dark and disturbing window into the world of secret renditions (laced with humor-only made possible by his exceptional writing skills). Is it non-fiction? Certainly not. Does it allow one to experience the disorientation and madness that can be created through subtle (and not so subtle) forms of "Enhanced Interrogation?" Most definitely. I was entranced, amused, sickened, frightened, perplexed, maddened, and entertained from cover to cover. Besides it only costs $9. What a bargain!
Joshua Cochran can write. It may seem a pointless statement, but considering the dreck that is usually published, it's gratifying that we have access to a writer of Cochran's ability.

Echo Detained is The Stranger for post 9/11 America, with a protagonist devoid of any legal semblance of guilt. The tenuous grasp held on safety, freedom and normalcy is wrested from our hero as easily as seats disappear on the subway, and we're reminded how easily we can be divested of our rights.

Cochran perfectly captures that complacency is a vehicle of survival; without it, persisting through the hell of torture and digital anal rape -- and coping with frustration born of the inability to communicate with those who cannot see any perspective besides their own -- would be impossible. He also conveys that the best tools in the war against the individual are a peon's blind obedience and absence of introspection.

The one factor that limited my review to 4 stars instead of 5 is that, while interesting, the extensive footnotes on Delasco can cause a reader to lose the narrative thread. If one choses to follow the footnote to its end, then backtrack to the point where they left the narrative, the experience could be jarring; it was for me.

However, this is a substantial work that I would recommend to anyone literate. His prose is magnificent. If you want to read something where the composition is as much a delight to take in as the story itself, this is your book.
I bought Echo Detained for some reading variety. About half of what I read is sci-fi and fantasy, the other half is everything from nonfiction to westerns.

The story was too slow moving and pessimistic for me. The protagonist never attacks the people holding him prisoner, or tries to escape. He’s so docile, and goes along with his ordeal so willingly, that I never developed any sympathy for him. The subject matter is important, renditions, corporate prisons, the loss of freedom, but this attempt to shine some light on those subjects misses the mark.

I haven’t seen any of the movies or TV series from the following book series, but I did read the first books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Twilight, Outlander, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Long Earth, Divergent, etc. I sample a lot of first books, but I don’t read many complete series. (Who has that much time?) The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, and The Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) series by George Martin are a couple of exceptions.

I’ve read both of those series more than once. Both are five star. The first three books in The Song of Ice and Fire series are the best. The Game of Thrones TV series is also five star. The first two Hunger Games movies are five star, but then they got greedy and tried to make two movies out of the Mockingjay book when there was barely enough source material there for one movie. The first two books in The Hunger Games trilogy are better than third book, Mockingjay, and the first two movies, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, are better than the two Mockingjay movies.

Starship Troopers (1959) (not like the movie) by Robert A. Heinlein is the book that got me started in sci-fi adventures, and has remained one of my top five favorite military science fiction adventure stories for decades. The Forever War (1974) by Joe Haldeman, Armor (1984) by John Steakley, Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card and Old Man’s War (2005) by John Scalzi, round out my top five military sci-fi adventure stories.

If you like any of the above you might also like Jack Campbell’s The Lost Fleet series, Taylor Anderson’s Destroyermen series, Andre Norton’s Star Soldiers, Andy Weir’s The Martian, or Frank Herbert’s Dune. Other sci-fi and fantasy authors I like include Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Paolo Bacigalupi, Arthur C. Clarke, Earnest Cline, Suzanne Collins, Abe Evergreen, Terry Goodkind, Hugh Howey, Robert Jordan, George Martin, Larry Niven, Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson and J.R.R. Tolkien.