Tim Scott (1)Críticas

This book is worth reading purely for the entertaining fridges. They are escaped! I love them! Who needs more than wild fridges to make a novel work?

This book is worth reading purely for the entertaining fridges. They are escaped! I love them! Who needs more than wild fridges to make a novel work?

This book is worth reading purely for the entertaining fridges. They are escaped! I love them! Who needs more than wild fridges to make a novel work?

I read this book a couple of years ago, I enjoyed it. The premise stayed with me. So, when I re-read the book. On second reading it was good, and I enjoyed the first 3/4 of it or so. I like the randomness, the way nothing doesn't seem to connect. Where this book went wrong is at the last 1/4 of the book. The answers are found, but seems so completely preposterous that ___ would ___ ___ to___ ____ ____ (the blanks give the whole plot away so fill it in after you read the book).

If you like your sci-fi surreal, lavishly sprinkled with gratuitous profanity and lacking any discernible plot or character development, you may enjoy this book. As for me, the latter three of those characteristics alternately irritated and bored me, and the humour didn't appeal; I abandoned it at page 80.

Interesting read, but the whole time I felt like I was missing something. Like I needed one more piece of information to understand what was going on. Instead of becoming immersed in the story and characters, I stood on the side watching and scratching my head.

The world building in this novel is simply kick ass. Terry Prachett better look out because Tim Scott's debut novel is funnier and more clever than any discworld book I remember reading as a youth. This is another novel I've had to share simply because it is so damn clever and funny. A great book to read if you need a quick pick me up!½

This book is billed as "outrageously funny". I didn't find it humorous. I did enjoy reading it though.

Nice ideas, but it took too long for the plot to make sense, and the twist at the end was disappointing.½

Outrageous Fortune by Tim Scott is a rare blend of action, humor, absurdity, science-fiction and personal insight. You know things are going to be interesting when the first word of Outrageous Fortune is ‘Fuckers’, uttered by main character, Johnny X67. He has every right to be pissed. His house has just been stolen. But that’s not even in the Top 10 of strange things that Johnny encounters in this non-stop adventure.

Read my full review at the Used Books Blog:
http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/outrageous-fortune-by-tim-scott/½

Hilarious, reminded me a bit of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but without the space travel.½