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Originally Posted by MovieBird
In my eyes, it was a standard down-on-his-luck older guy, who gets even with the big bad nasty corporation. Oh, and he gets to sleep with his superwoman talented hacker of a sidekick who's half his age. The sadistic elements of the story were just so over the top, with no real bearing on the story. It seemed like they were just thrown in a the drop of a hat (not really tied in or referenced), and thus, felt out of place.
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I thought the story was the detective story and the sadistic element was part of the theme of all books. The get even thing I saw as a rather unimportant thing that gave some more depth to the real story.