Welcome to Litsy!

Wolfe returns to the story-telling contest structure (a la The Decameron/Canterbury Tales) that he has employed elsewhere for the early part of this second novel of the Book of the Short Sun.

My mom told me about this short story after watching a "documentary" video about the movie Idiocracy. Are there any other fans of the movie on here??

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A low-ish Pick. Weird and kind of creepy, but a quick read. Some real body horror with experimentation on humans, and a distressing storyline involving a girl named Lucy. The story is leavened a bit by having Arthur Conan Doyle team up with the Fourth Doctor to investigate the case and Sarah Jane meeting Rudyard Kipling, seen here as a teenager (albeit hitting on Sarah Jane...talk about “never meet your heroes”, yikes).

This is such a heavy, dense work - epic and worth the trouble, mind you. But when this joke hits in the middle of it - it hits hard.
"I got a plan."
"What is it?"
"Ah..."
"Go on, what is it?"
"How'd it be if you and I made ourselves a nice bit of toasted cheese?"
"I meant a plan for escape."

I still laugh when someone says "cheese sandwich."

I found a lot of this to be a bit boring, but the second half of the book picked up and made things interesting. It barely reached 3 stars for me, but I might continue the story whenever the next book comes out.

This was a little too much “dude bro“ for my tastes and the second half dragged on. There was definitely some humor but Kevin R. Free's narration was flawless and the only thing that kept me going.

This book enlightens in a comprehensive and practical manner… we know we are not the only beings in the universe, so what if… what a way to hope for a better future and devise a better system. Loved Samantha, Adam, Athena, and Hamish all of the characters provided a different perspective and I wish this could be a series… great read … this begins me “Malazan bingo read for this year” one down📖

Some of these epigraphs just crack me up or present significant thought into the question “what if”