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I just finished reading Michael Marshall Smith's book Spares. I am a fan of his other books written under the name Michael Marshall but have only recently purchased the 3 earlier works. Spares is many stories in one book. It is a murder mystery, an adventure and most of all the most unique and interesting science fiction that I have ever read. There are more original ideas and scenarios in this story than in many books put together, all tied together in a flawless way that makes it understandable and most enjoyable. Perhaps, most uniquely of all, it is written with a remarkable sense of humor. As I finished reading it I felt that I would miss the whole thing, the story, the characters and the humor. I would very much like to see this on the screen.


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Spares Michael Marsh Smith 9780006512677 Books Reviews

Neo-noir psychedelia, like a collaboration between Hunter S. Thompson and Raymond Chandler with a story set in a post-apocalyptic world of the absurd. Badass, yet poignant, and a mind blowing good time. Very, very cool stuff.
I was turned on to Micheal Marshal Smith by my younger brother. He didn't know neither did I that he wrote more than Only Forward, needless to say I am now A Marshal junkie and will read everything he has ever written. Be warned if you have no sense of humor, don't like cuss words and wander through your overworked life and don't see the irony he writes with then this author is not for you. I feel like I'm giving away a secret saying any of this, life has it's really weird crap already but he makes the crap fun again.
I was swept into the world he created and didn't want the book to end. Note that it contains some unusually disturbing violence against innocent people (though used effectively to highlight the inhumanity of the bad guys, not gratuitously); I had to skip one part when I realized where it was going - but I still loved it.
Good story, a little twisted like I was told
This book is fast-paced, occasionally brutal, and quite often just plain strange. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
It started off as a hard-boiled, hard-sci-fi action novel with some odd characters and unusual scenery. It turned into a remarkably imaginative romp through strange places and stranger plot twists. The exploration of the protagonist's psyche and background was much deeper than similar books in this genre -- the section after he's Gone Away stands out in particular.
The only thing that bugged me was the incessant "___ was like ___". Too many things were described in terms of other things; the language pattern started to wear on me.
If you don't like strong language and the occasional blood & guts, you don't want to read this. If you don't mind, this is a great read.
This book took me to a bleak future and told a sad story of an ex-soldier and cop, morning for his murdered wife and daughter and the ghosts in his head from deep in his past, and the children he wants to save. Hoping for a part two!
Where do I begin? I recall hearing on a podcast or reading somewhere that this book influenced Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs trilogy (a huge favorite of mine). And in reading 'Spares' I had to remind myself that 'Spares' was published before 'Altered Carbon'.

'Spares''s hero (well anti-hero actually) reminds me a lot of Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs. 'Spares' doesn't have the same wide scope as 'AC' (no space travel and no colony worlds for Randall to explore). Most of the action takes place in New Richmond (Virginia). Like Kovacs, Randall is a man with a checkered past. He's also a veteran of a tough and brutal war, although unlike with Kovacs' experience at Innenin, we are given a fairly full account of Randall's experience in the Gap.

I don't want to get into plot too much for risk of spoiling. What I found with Smith's plotting was that as Randall tries to unravel the mystery at the heart of 'Spares' you feel like Smith has given you hints and that you could almost figure out the mystery. Except you can't. I always had this feeling with some of Michael Crichton's better thrillers; as if the author has given me the information to solve the mystery and yet it remains tantalizingly out of reach. I always take this as the sign of a well-crafted plot.

I enjoyed Smith's writing style very much. I think he manages to paint a picture of a very disturbing, dystopian future and yet at the same time Smith manages to inject quite a lot of humor into the story, which has some very disturbing aspects. His characters are real with both positive and negative (sometimes very negative) qualities, quite unlike the All-American Supermen protagonists found in the works of Tom Clancy or other similar thriller writers.

I've made mention of this in other reviews but the ability to write good metaphors and similes is what separates a really good writer from a more pedestrian writer. In my opinion, it's the metaphors that add poetry to a writer's prose. It is also a writer's metaphors that allow for the more trenchant and insightful commentary on the human condition. In my opinion, the greatest metaphorist I've read is Michael Chabon. China Mieville is also quite talented in this respect. If Chabon gets an A for metaphors, and Mieville and A- then Smith is a solid B+ bordering on an A-.

If you like dark, dystopian cyberpunk/cybernoir, I don't think you will be disappointed with 'Spares'.
I just finished reading Michael Marshall Smith's book Spares. I am a fan of his other books written under the name Michael Marshall but have only recently purchased the 3 earlier works. Spares is many stories in one book. It is a murder mystery, an adventure and most of all the most unique and interesting science fiction that I have ever read. There are more original ideas and scenarios in this story than in many books put together, all tied together in a flawless way that makes it understandable and most enjoyable. Perhaps, most uniquely of all, it is written with a remarkable sense of humor. As I finished reading it I felt that I would miss the whole thing, the story, the characters and the humor. I would very much like to see this on the screen.