A review by coffeeastronaut
Metal Gear Solid by Raymond Benson

1.0

Very bad book, just utterly atrocious. conversely to many bad adaptations, this one might be better if you haven’t seen the original- long swaths of text directly lifted from the game are extremely boring to read. 
the one star is given for the sheer comedic value of the bad writing.

Spoiler

at one point, while dealing with the comm tower fight (with liquid & the hind d?), snake takes a moment to hope that the damage the tower had already taken won’t cause it to fall, and then reflects on 9/11. absurd. at the beginning of the book, snake is woken from a dream about picking blueberries and salmonberries to feed to his huskies. The dream is referenced twice more by snake, once to inform general campbell that snake was ‘in the middle of a very nice dream about berries, so this better be important.’ genuinly my favorite aspect of the book was this berry dream.

Other then the comedy value contained in the abysmal quality of the writing, this book sucks. just absolutely sucks. total slog.