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Sto caricando le informazioni... Mechanical Failuredi Joe Zieja
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book has been sitting on my personal TBR pile for a very long time, mostly because I didn't care to start a trilogy when I couldn't get easy access to the follow-up books. Even though, at the time, I was really interested in reading an old-fashioned send-up of military service. Be that as it may, our protagonist, one R. Wilson Rogers, is mostly a competent slacker on the make who finds himself "reactivated" for active duty, only to find that the lackadaisical space navy he "served" in has gone stark raving mad, and is ostensibly gearing up for war. Rogers' efforts to get to the bottom of this state of affairs is what drives the plot, and the funny parts are very funny. However, the absurdity is layered on a little too thick at times. Still, I liked it enough to carry through and look at the rest of the series. ( ) First I need to be upfront. I didn't finish the book. I got half way. This is a lot farther than I ever go on a book that is not totally capturing my attention. It had some hysterical moments in it and the beginning was great. Ultimately, it just wasn't my cup of tea. I can see why some would love it though. The exploits of R Wilson Rogers are ridiculous, hilarious, and entirely accessible for the reader with only a passing acquaintance with the sci-fi genre. Some jokes seemed over-used by the later chapters, but they were still surrounded by original moments which had me snorting. I listened to this on audio, and audio-books aren't usually my thing, but I decided to give it a go since Joe himself was narrating. And, yeah, it was awesome. (For you Fire Emblem fans, it may take a few chapters to remember that, no, this is not Claude telling a bedtime story to the Golden Deer.) 3 painfully-funny stars So much corniness abounds in this book. If you've ever been in the military, you may be able to relate to the exploits of (newly promoted) Ensign Rogers. If not, you'll be shaking your head in amazement that a military force is able to function like this. While it's very similar in vein to sci-fi/humor classics, [b:The Stainless Steel Rat|64394|The Stainless Steel Rat (Stainless Steel Rat, #4)|Harry Harrison|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328073906s/64394.jpg|824589] and [b:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|11|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)|Douglas Adams|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327656754s/11.jpg|3078186], the humor becomes quite tedious after a while. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The two hundred years' (and counting) peace is a time of tranquility that hasn't been seen since . . . well, never. Mankind in the Galactic Age had finally conquered war, so what was left for the military to do but drink and barbecue? That's the kind of military that Sergeant R. Wilson Rogers lived in before he left the fleet to become a smuggler. But it turns out that smuggling is hard. Like getting-arrested-for-dealing-with-pirates-and-forced-back-into-service kind of hard. It doesn't seem so bad-the military was a perpetual tiki party anyway-but when Rogers returns after only a year away, something has changed. These are soldiers-actual soldiers doing actual soldier things like preparing for a war that Rogers is sure doesn't exist. Rogers vows to put a stop to all this nonsense-even if it means doing actual work. With an experienced ear for military double-speak, Joe Zieja has created a remarkable and sarcastic adventure in Mechanical Failure. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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