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4.82 AVERAGE
4.82 AVERAGE
so well written and how everything played out to connect at the end, my emotions and feelings couldn't handle it
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
From February 16th to November 4th at 1:05AM. 5683 pages on my phone later, and after having no tears left to cry, my ORV journey has finally reached its ending (let's pretend there's no extra content for a minute). I had a full on insane moment while reading the epilogue, I spent an hour simultaneously crying, reading and drinking my tea, but thankfully none of my family noticed (or else I'd have to explain why I'm full on sobbing while reading a freaking book).
For usual reviews, most of the time I like to state why I rated the book the way I did but honestly, I don't see the point in saying the usual things this time around. This book has been my great journey that lasted almost 10 full months, and to be completely honest, I could've easily read it in like two three months but I simply chose not to. Even though it literally has 5.6k pages full of words, it still wasn't enough. Halfway through I was already grieving the fact that this book and this characters are eventually going to reach the epilogue, and then the ending.
This was a complete unique experience for me on many levels, and it will leave a huge impression on me even years later. The topics discussed in the book, the ideas, the whole purpose of reading and authors and readers... The way they all mended at some point and became one was absolutely fascinating to me, and it made me realize even more just how magical reading is, and just how important it is. Even though this book is clearly fiction, it's not exactly false. Just like Kim Dokja, all of us are readers, and we all not only escape the reality by reading, we also unconsciously become the protagonists and get to experience what the characters are experiencing, and even make our own stories. At the end of the day, we're all just characters trying to reach our own 'One story' and our own epilogue, and I think that's just so beautiful.
If you've reached this after me speaking almost nonsense, thank you. I'm just really sappy rn and I don't think I will exactly ever recover from this book. When I first opened my epub of this book I first of all had no idea how long it is. Second of all I didn't expect to actually like it this much. And third of all, I had no idea it would completely change my way of thinking, just how influential it would be on my small brain. The most special thanks goes out to my girlie Sulfi who's love for this book made me not only pick it up, but actually completely fall in love with the world and it's characters. Ly so much girlie<3, and thank you for bearing with me on this long long journey, and waking up to 20+ messages occasionally on discord (even though you brought it upon yourself heh).
At last, I wanted to say thank you to Han Sooyoung, Yoo Joonghyuk and Kim Dokja. Fuck you all for making me cry for you <3
For usual reviews, most of the time I like to state why I rated the book the way I did but honestly, I don't see the point in saying the usual things this time around. This book has been my great journey that lasted almost 10 full months, and to be completely honest, I could've easily read it in like two three months but I simply chose not to. Even though it literally has 5.6k pages full of words, it still wasn't enough. Halfway through I was already grieving the fact that this book and this characters are eventually going to reach the epilogue, and then the ending.
This was a complete unique experience for me on many levels, and it will leave a huge impression on me even years later. The topics discussed in the book, the ideas, the whole purpose of reading and authors and readers... The way they all mended at some point and became one was absolutely fascinating to me, and it made me realize even more just how magical reading is, and just how important it is. Even though this book is clearly fiction, it's not exactly false. Just like Kim Dokja, all of us are readers, and we all not only escape the reality by reading, we also unconsciously become the protagonists and get to experience what the characters are experiencing, and even make our own stories. At the end of the day, we're all just characters trying to reach our own 'One story' and our own epilogue, and I think that's just so beautiful.
If you've reached this after me speaking almost nonsense, thank you. I'm just really sappy rn and I don't think I will exactly ever recover from this book. When I first opened my epub of this book I first of all had no idea how long it is. Second of all I didn't expect to actually like it this much. And third of all, I had no idea it would completely change my way of thinking, just how influential it would be on my small brain. The most special thanks goes out to my girlie Sulfi who's love for this book made me not only pick it up, but actually completely fall in love with the world and it's characters. Ly so much girlie<3, and thank you for bearing with me on this long long journey, and waking up to 20+ messages occasionally on discord (even though you brought it upon yourself heh).
At last, I wanted to say thank you to Han Sooyoung, Yoo Joonghyuk and Kim Dokja. Fuck you all for making me cry for you <3
"We talked about this, didn't we?! Even if we can't reach each other, even if we can't meet, we gotta keep pounding on the wall until the end, right?? Even if the wall would never open up, we agreed to keep writing something on it, didn't we?!" [...] "When we do that, then maybe, someone might end up seeing our words someday...!"
Then maybe, just maybe, you might finally want to come out of that place.
While im still processing the epilogue I can say that the way the novel ended was the best way it could've ended especially if I remember how it started in the first place. Yes, this story was about love... love between friends, between family, between any individuals, learning to be loved, to love others but most importantly it was about love for reading, for writing and for the story and what it means to be reading that story, writing it and living it as a character.
With the way how the novel started as a power fantasy and how the first 100 chapters continued you could not expect it to develop into something more complex... I signed up for an action series but ended up questioning my whole existence lol. But it's not a story that you will understand just by reading 100 chapters, you actually need to put an effort to finish it and while you may think there's a lot of plot armour, trust me that everything gets explained as you go on. It has a very solid world-building, great arcs and fighting scenes, it has mythology (from greek to chinese to indian etc.) and historical events and figures included, it has almost everything you don't expect that I don't wanna spoil... but the core plot has so much depth and everything gets tied up carefully by the end.
All the main characters and even the side characters are so well written and I feel like no one really feels left out. And the women??? Lets just say theres a lot of female characters and they're all so wonderful and strong and smart in different ways and they're not just there as background characters for the mc. And yoohankim are the best trio ever created wow. Same goes for the fact that no chapter felt in any way insignificant.
I admit it also had its flaws with some arcs being too long and some ridiculous moments etc. but on other hand I felt like even the flaws fitted the purpose of the novel and what the authors intended. I could go on and on about how good ORV is, but I feel like that it's something that someone has to discover for themselves. Now let me just cry about the ending a bit more...
The story was for just that one reader. // kim dokja family and yoohankim i will miss you forever
Then maybe, just maybe, you might finally want to come out of that place.
While im still processing the epilogue I can say that the way the novel ended was the best way it could've ended especially if I remember how it started in the first place. Yes, this story was about love... love between friends, between family, between any individuals, learning to be loved, to love others but most importantly it was about love for reading, for writing and for the story and what it means to be reading that story, writing it and living it as a character.
With the way how the novel started as a power fantasy and how the first 100 chapters continued you could not expect it to develop into something more complex... I signed up for an action series but ended up questioning my whole existence lol. But it's not a story that you will understand just by reading 100 chapters, you actually need to put an effort to finish it and while you may think there's a lot of plot armour, trust me that everything gets explained as you go on. It has a very solid world-building, great arcs and fighting scenes, it has mythology (from greek to chinese to indian etc.) and historical events and figures included, it has almost everything you don't expect that I don't wanna spoil... but the core plot has so much depth and everything gets tied up carefully by the end.
All the main characters and even the side characters are so well written and I feel like no one really feels left out. And the women??? Lets just say theres a lot of female characters and they're all so wonderful and strong and smart in different ways and they're not just there as background characters for the mc. And yoohankim are the best trio ever created wow. Same goes for the fact that no chapter felt in any way insignificant.
Spoiler
Out of all the tropes the one that stood out for me was the trope of self-sacrifice... the guilt of sacrificing other people for your own purpose, while also sacrificing yourself for the people you love but also how that's also in a way 'selfish' because it hurts people you leave behind... from two different perspectives. One being KDJ sacrificing himself for the people and characters he loves because he thinks no one will care about him if he dies and the other being YJH and him realising how his regressions might have hurt the companions as well.I admit it also had its flaws with some arcs being too long and some ridiculous moments etc. but on other hand I felt like even the flaws fitted the purpose of the novel and what the authors intended. I could go on and on about how good ORV is, but I feel like that it's something that someone has to discover for themselves. Now let me just cry about the ending a bit more...
The story was for just that one reader. // kim dokja family and yoohankim i will miss you forever
Today is the day (11th May) I finally start writing this review about my absolutely favourite read I have ever had in my life and probably will ever have. I can’t believe I say this, but I think this novel will forever be my number 1, because I can’t imagine someone ever writing something slightly as good as this.
Get yourself some good coffee or tea, maybe a snack as well, because I am about to take you on the journey I had with this book/novel from the very beginning I started reading it. *sip*
also, warning: this review will be very chaotic, sorry not sorry.
I decided writing a review because one friend of mine started reading it a while ago and has nearly finished now and I just got so motivated to re-read this unique masterpiece.
After finishing re-reading the first page, I burst out in tears because of the story that is about to evolve in the next 5870 pages.
Two years ago, on my way to Germany to visit my boyfriend, I started reading this Webtoon that sounded so boring and so without any real plot, but I needed to kill time, yno? So, I started reading „Omniscient Reader‘s Viewpoint“, a story about a 28 year old male employee at some company without any real friends and the sole reader of a badly written novel that was called „Three ways to survive the apocalypse“. A novel with over 3000 chapters. But one day, the novel's author posted the epilogue of the story and the story was over - until the novel turned into real life and everything our MC, Kim Dokja (KDJ), has read up until now started happening exactly the same way. Good thing that he has the book to know exactly what to do.
This was basically the summary of the webtoon - now you get me why I thought this was just straight up boring? Well, never been this happy to be /this/ wrong about something…
But at first, that was all that happened - the story started as a typical sci-fic apocalypse where our characters has to do specific things to survive.
oh baby, if you knew what came afterwards..
while reading, you get to know that it’s so much more. The characters aren’t just any side characters, they are very complex - each and every single one of them has their own unique story and their own plot and reason to be there - it was probably the strongest feature of this novel.
The most important one here is the Protagonist of KDJ's Novel „Yoo Joonghyuk“, who has the ability to regress if something goes wrong which is a very vital part of upcoming chapters.
The story is also a very slow slow-burn rivals-to-friends and we never get to forget that as this storyline sees it through to the very end.
As the title suggests, the story is about the „reader“ (KDJ) and how the reader's viewpoint/perspective influences the writer and protagonist in the story. Every single word you read in this novel is somehow connected to something bigger later in the chapters, that is something you should never forget while reading ORV.
aaaaaaAaaAAAAAAAA ok. maybe some of you don’t understand why I am screaming right now, but I JUST WANT TO SCREAM FROM THE TOP OF MY LUNGS HOW GOOD THIS NOVEL IS.
Also, you get many, many mythology references which is just FKEHOEHEL *chefs kiss*. You get the 12 Olympic Gods, you get the archangels, you get korean historical references which are so interesting, you get SO MUCH.
You get one reader trying so hard for his friends to survive and to make them happy, you get a at first arrogant protagonist that never wants to listen but in the end always finds his way back to KDJ, you get a trio you will love endlessly, you get to know so much at first but so little at the same time. You get time-related references that will fuck you up YOU GET THREE SOULMATES FIGHTING TO BE TOGETHER.
You get to piece every single information you get from that novel together and then you will just be left mind blown..
You may think „this just sounds like too much and too overwhelming and not really good written because maybe the authors lose themselves in the story“ BUT NO. THATS THE POINT. YOU READ 5580 PAGES AND YOU NEVER ONCE THINK „Wtf this is just too much, you lose the sight of the main plot“ NO! it’s just written /this good/, this is a skill not everyone can master as a writer.
I really want to scream with my friends about this novel and how fxcked up one is after reading this.
aaaaaaaAAAAAAAa thank you for reading this chaotic piece of something. I want to write so much more, but I just dont want to spoil, but I want people who haven’t read that to see how people who have read that actually react, so if you are intrigued go and read it!!!! pls!!! i beg you!!
also: the original is in korean, there is no official english translation, and korean readers even said that the korean version is so much better than any english version, which is insane if you think about it.
infinite/5 stars !
Get yourself some good coffee or tea, maybe a snack as well, because I am about to take you on the journey I had with this book/novel from the very beginning I started reading it. *sip*
also, warning: this review will be very chaotic, sorry not sorry.
I decided writing a review because one friend of mine started reading it a while ago and has nearly finished now and I just got so motivated to re-read this unique masterpiece.
After finishing re-reading the first page, I burst out in tears because of the story that is about to evolve in the next 5870 pages.
Two years ago, on my way to Germany to visit my boyfriend, I started reading this Webtoon that sounded so boring and so without any real plot, but I needed to kill time, yno? So, I started reading „Omniscient Reader‘s Viewpoint“, a story about a 28 year old male employee at some company without any real friends and the sole reader of a badly written novel that was called „Three ways to survive the apocalypse“. A novel with over 3000 chapters. But one day, the novel's author posted the epilogue of the story and the story was over - until the novel turned into real life and everything our MC, Kim Dokja (KDJ), has read up until now started happening exactly the same way. Good thing that he has the book to know exactly what to do.
This was basically the summary of the webtoon - now you get me why I thought this was just straight up boring? Well, never been this happy to be /this/ wrong about something…
But at first, that was all that happened - the story started as a typical sci-fic apocalypse where our characters has to do specific things to survive.
oh baby, if you knew what came afterwards..
while reading, you get to know that it’s so much more. The characters aren’t just any side characters, they are very complex - each and every single one of them has their own unique story and their own plot and reason to be there - it was probably the strongest feature of this novel.
The most important one here is the Protagonist of KDJ's Novel „Yoo Joonghyuk“, who has the ability to regress if something goes wrong which is a very vital part of upcoming chapters.
The story is also a very slow slow-burn rivals-to-friends and we never get to forget that as this storyline sees it through to the very end.
As the title suggests, the story is about the „reader“ (KDJ) and how the reader's viewpoint/perspective influences the writer and protagonist in the story. Every single word you read in this novel is somehow connected to something bigger later in the chapters, that is something you should never forget while reading ORV.
aaaaaaAaaAAAAAAAA ok. maybe some of you don’t understand why I am screaming right now, but I JUST WANT TO SCREAM FROM THE TOP OF MY LUNGS HOW GOOD THIS NOVEL IS.
Also, you get many, many mythology references which is just FKEHOEHEL *chefs kiss*. You get the 12 Olympic Gods, you get the archangels, you get korean historical references which are so interesting, you get SO MUCH.
You get one reader trying so hard for his friends to survive and to make them happy, you get a at first arrogant protagonist that never wants to listen but in the end always finds his way back to KDJ, you get a trio you will love endlessly, you get to know so much at first but so little at the same time. You get time-related references that will fuck you up YOU GET THREE SOULMATES FIGHTING TO BE TOGETHER.
You get to piece every single information you get from that novel together and then you will just be left mind blown..
You may think „this just sounds like too much and too overwhelming and not really good written because maybe the authors lose themselves in the story“ BUT NO. THATS THE POINT. YOU READ 5580 PAGES AND YOU NEVER ONCE THINK „Wtf this is just too much, you lose the sight of the main plot“ NO! it’s just written /this good/, this is a skill not everyone can master as a writer.
I really want to scream with my friends about this novel and how fxcked up one is after reading this.
aaaaaaaAAAAAAAa thank you for reading this chaotic piece of something. I want to write so much more, but I just dont want to spoil, but I want people who haven’t read that to see how people who have read that actually react, so if you are intrigued go and read it!!!! pls!!! i beg you!!
also: the original is in korean, there is no official english translation, and korean readers even said that the korean version is so much better than any english version, which is insane if you think about it.
infinite/5 stars !
This whole series took me 12.5 days to finish and I can’t wait to reread it someday.
Kim Dokja is such a special character and I feel like this story is just so special, I truly haven’t read anything like it. Of course the highlight is Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk and their relationship as well as Han Sooyoung’s part.
I understand that the ending is supposed to be open to whatever the reader chooses, but I can’t help but say that these type of endings leave me feeling empty. I think potentially some of this feeling is from the fact that we read 500+ chapters from Dokjas pov and then we never get to hear his thoughts again. I would kill to be able to read one more chapter from his pov, especially since the last time we do, the last thing he mentions is his companions banging on the train door. Ahh my heart aches.
I really do appreciate this ending. I think as a reader it’s especially something to appreciate. I mean the author pretty much turned us into Kim Dokja with how long this series was and how the ending was constructed. I typically enjoy endings that are more solid, I prefer knowing exactly how things end. This time I think I’m okay with it (again I’d kill to hear from Dokja one last time). Maybe cause the opening ending was a clear intention from the start.
I still can’t shake it though, or at least not yet. Even though I only spent a little less than two weeks getting to know these characters, it feels like I have seen every nook and cranny of them. I guess I simply want more. If I could have Joonghyuk and Dokja just interacting more… I mean wow what am interesting and complicated relationship they had, of course I want more!
Of course reviews are from assessing the whole book but I just like to complain about endings lol. In the end, this book will stay with me for a long while. I definitely will be crying a few more times. For now I’ll read the Webtoon and tuck it away for the next time I want to read Kim Dokjas story.
Kim Dokja is such a special character and I feel like this story is just so special, I truly haven’t read anything like it. Of course the highlight is Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk and their relationship as well as Han Sooyoung’s part.
I understand that the ending is supposed to be open to whatever the reader chooses, but I can’t help but say that these type of endings leave me feeling empty. I think potentially some of this feeling is from the fact that we read 500+ chapters from Dokjas pov and then we never get to hear his thoughts again. I would kill to be able to read one more chapter from his pov, especially since the last time we do, the last thing he mentions is his companions banging on the train door. Ahh my heart aches.
I really do appreciate this ending. I think as a reader it’s especially something to appreciate. I mean the author pretty much turned us into Kim Dokja with how long this series was and how the ending was constructed. I typically enjoy endings that are more solid, I prefer knowing exactly how things end. This time I think I’m okay with it (again I’d kill to hear from Dokja one last time). Maybe cause the opening ending was a clear intention from the start.
I still can’t shake it though, or at least not yet. Even though I only spent a little less than two weeks getting to know these characters, it feels like I have seen every nook and cranny of them. I guess I simply want more. If I could have Joonghyuk and Dokja just interacting more… I mean wow what am interesting and complicated relationship they had, of course I want more!
Of course reviews are from assessing the whole book but I just like to complain about endings lol. In the end, this book will stay with me for a long while. I definitely will be crying a few more times. For now I’ll read the Webtoon and tuck it away for the next time I want to read Kim Dokjas story.
I especially liked the part where kdj and yjh got married
