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When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

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I Did Not Finish at 37 percent. Sigh. I don’t know. I either love John Scalzi or am totally baffled at what he is trying to do and find myself getting irritated. I was always wary of space operas, but for the most part really enjoy them now due to The Murderbot series. And I did love the first book in Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. But it’s been hit or miss with me the past few years because it seems to me most of his books are just […]

3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years by John Scalzi

3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years by John Scalzi

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  Honestly, I don’t think I am going to finish this anthology. I usually like Scalzi okay, but this story took way too long to get going and even one you get to the point of the story, I just didn’t care that much about it. That said, the ending was a game changer, but that was way too late for me to even really think this was a good story. I did think that Scalzi did a great job with time travel, paradoxes, etc. […]

A swing and a miss from Scalzi

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

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Bingo: Black I’ve been a longtime Scalzi fan since a friend insisted I read Old Man’s War.  However, his last trilogy, The Collapsing Empire, didn’t do it for me.  Then along came The Kaiju Preservation Society, 5 star read, followed by Starter Villain, 5 star read.  Scalzi was on a roll!  After seeing him at an event for Starter Villain, I was so geeked for the final book in this triptych, When the Moon Hits Your Eye.  Scalzi explained this at the event and here is a concise description […]

But what kind of cheese?

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

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When The Moon Hits Your Eye is the latest in a string of very strange books by John Scalzi. The Kaiju Preservation Society introduced us to a former Postmates-ish driver taking a job at a wildlife preserve for horrifying monsters. Starter Villain pondered the moral implications of inheriting your uncle’s supervillain business. When the Moon Hits Your Eye introduces another premise so ridiculous that I can only assume Scalzi wrote the book on a dare: “What if the moon suddenly turned into cheese?” The story unfolds through a […]

Possible Death By Lunar Cheese Volcano

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

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When the Moon Hits Your Eye is not really a straightforward story. The premise is basically “What if the moon actually turned to cheese, suddenly and unexplicably? How would people react?” Each chapter is a mini-episode of a couple of people trying to figure out what is going on, and what they think and how they feel about it.  These episodes range from a group of retirees in a diner, to a couple of young adults working at rival cheese shops, to NASA scientists, to […]

Feeling a bit lactose intolerant after this one

When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

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When Emmalita mentioned that she had a hard time getting into this novel because of the ever changing  points of view, I was hoping it might work better for me. After all, I love World War Z, and I don’t think that one has any repeat narrators – unlike Robocalypse, which structurally looked like it would follow a similar approach but then ended up having reoccurring characters. Unfortunately, she was right. Something about this one didn’t work as well for me as it did in […]



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