2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
I don’t know why I finished this. Perhaps it was the 1.5x speed setting on the audiobook that helped. Barely. The one kick I got out of it was that the reader was Dick Hill, the same guy who reads Lee Child’s Reacher books so well.
This book is just a series of one character after another giving speeches, which are received with thunderous applause by an unthinking, lobotomized audience. Every single character seems to be missing some core piece that would make them three dimensional and the narrative assumes its readers have very little knowledge or imagination (or perhaps is assuming that maybe they stopped paying attention to the story?) by hammering very banal facts about this future that’s really not so far removed from our own present into our eyeballs.
I liked the cover.