I read the first two of these novels earlier in the year, and the amusement quickly wore thin for me. However, I already had the third novel on my Kindle, I was slightly curious to see how it ended, and since I have been on a streak of good books lately, I thought enough time had passed where some of the flaws would be less grating. Overall, I was less irritated with this one than the previous one since I had taken a break from […]
Oh Please Tell Me More About Your TODO list …
The second Bobiverse novel takes off where the other one left off, but felt less fun. I don’t think it was necessarily less light-hearted but how entertaining this one is basically all depends on how entertaining Bob is to the reader – I don’t dislike Bob, but he also isn’t anywhere in my top ten of people I would like to clone and take over the world so I was ready for some other voices. It’s weird, I feel like one novel told from one […]
A Way Too Heavy and Analytical Take on A Light Sci-Fi Novel
I am not sure what it is with me but I tend to take light sci-fi novels and view them in a much darker than intended way. And sci-fi novels are intended to be dark are depressingly bleak (Three Body Problem trilogy, looking at you here!). While everyone else was enjoying the ride of Ready Player One, my response was: “they’ve basically destroyed the environment, life is miserable, and the novel’s focus is on winning a video game. I mean I get it as a […]
A Few Too Many Space Bobs
I think it was the title of this thing that caught my attention: We Are Legion [We Are Bob]. It just sounded a little goofy, and as it turns out, you can judge this book by its title. The premise is pretty standard sci-fi: guy at the peak of his career with a great life ahead, decides to get himself cryogenically frozen when he dies, and is almost immediately killed off. He wakes up about a century later to find a very different world than […]