This is pretty typical current Scalzi. Funny, maybe a little blithe, sarcastic as hell, quippy-funny coming from odd angles. Had me laughing out loud at point, clearly the kind of funny I needed this afternoon. I wouldn't say the novel is shallow, exactly, but what thematic concerns there are--family, corporate evil, cats--are neither subtle nor strongly played; there's no reason to take this novel seriously, but it's great fun to read.
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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
This is labeled as an epistolary novel, but that's not entirely right. There are entries that could not possibly have been written, fr...
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I read this book like thirty years ago (ack!) when I was in college, and I remembered liking it, and when my wife picked it as a classic-i...
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The cover text calls this something like "one of the most important novels" blah blah blah. It's not a novel, it's a disc...
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Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lie...
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