Ryan's Reviews > Texas Down

I hope this ends up as "the horrible book at the beginning of a good author's career which he tries to hide and which obsessive fans seek out (e.g. Stephenson's The Big U)", but it's pretty bad. I like EMP stories, I like post apocayptic/survivalist stories, but this one had dumb characters, illogical plot, and was exceedingly tedious to read.

The audiobook, run through "virtual voice", was actually less bad purely on mechanical factors than I was expecting, but worse than gpt-4 reading text directly. But honestly, an AI could have created a better story start to finish.