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A review by tobin_elliott
Nobody True by James Herbert
Did not finish book. Stopped at 21%.
Nope. Couldn't do it.
Great opening line: "I wasn't there when I died."
Then Herbert proceeds to eschew any forward motion with the plot, spending about the first hundred pages—a solid fifth of the book—dragging the reader through James True's entire freaking life, from childhood to current job...and not in an entertaining way.
And when he finishes that, he gives far more information than any reader would ever need on the inner workings of an ad agency.
It literally takes him thirteen chapters to finally get back round to not being in his body when he died. And by then?
...Yeah, I just didn't care.
DNF, no rating.
Great opening line: "I wasn't there when I died."
Then Herbert proceeds to eschew any forward motion with the plot, spending about the first hundred pages—a solid fifth of the book—dragging the reader through James True's entire freaking life, from childhood to current job...and not in an entertaining way.
And when he finishes that, he gives far more information than any reader would ever need on the inner workings of an ad agency.
It literally takes him thirteen chapters to finally get back round to not being in his body when he died. And by then?
...Yeah, I just didn't care.
DNF, no rating.