I just finished "The Electric Church." It's one of those dystopias that can easily be turned into an action/adventure film. There are some good ideas in there. The System is in charge after the riots and Unification and more riots. The System Police are the ultimate overpaid, gun-wielding, bureaucratic bad guys. The Monks are the lobotomized proselytizers on the street who have a habit of "converting" those with no means, i.e. the seething masses who have few morals because they're just trying to make it to tomorrow, much less their 20th birthdays. Enter our narrator, the rare man who lives by a code.
It's good. It's fast. It's not brilliant or unique in toto, but it had some good ideas.
Picky point, but I wish Somers could have come up with more than one way to explain the taste of blood in the mouth of the narrator. He gets beaten up too much for the taste of blood to be described as "coppery" over and over again. I know this is the digital age, but pick up a thesaurus.
Now on to Midaq Alley, written by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz.
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