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A review by roseyrobertson
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
1.0
Had such high hopes for this book! I bought the first three in the series, positive that I'd love them. Was sorely disappointed.
I found the narration very tedious and the sense of humour painfully stupid. For example, naming this inner-voice computer helper thing "Asshole" and then the computer says, "That's a very common name!" and I'm reading this thinking, "ugh, we get it, you're an old-man luddite that cheekily names his computer some stupid douchy name." And then later it's revealed someone else names theirs "Bitch" and SIGH, no one cares, it isn't funny ...it's the kind of thing a teenager would do, not a mature adult.
I guess this would be fine if it was intermittent but the whole book is nothing but these eye-rolling jokes and it gets old very quickly.
As a result, I didn't really like any of the characters, nor did I find them to have any sort of depth. I certainly couldn't connect with any of them or have any interest in what was going on with them.
It's too bad, because the premise seemed great! But the execution was sorely lacking, IMO.
I found the narration very tedious and the sense of humour painfully stupid. For example, naming this inner-voice computer helper thing "Asshole" and then the computer says, "That's a very common name!" and I'm reading this thinking, "ugh, we get it, you're an old-man luddite that cheekily names his computer some stupid douchy name." And then later it's revealed someone else names theirs "Bitch" and SIGH, no one cares, it isn't funny ...it's the kind of thing a teenager would do, not a mature adult.
I guess this would be fine if it was intermittent but the whole book is nothing but these eye-rolling jokes and it gets old very quickly.
As a result, I didn't really like any of the characters, nor did I find them to have any sort of depth. I certainly couldn't connect with any of them or have any interest in what was going on with them.
It's too bad, because the premise seemed great! But the execution was sorely lacking, IMO.