26th June 2004, 7:57 PM
Well, to me the one thing that ruined it was the ending. I mean, the idea of the guy who helped him through the whole thing turning out to be evil, for no good reason except "he's crazy that way", just didn't work out well at all.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)